This essential text calls social work back to its roots of fighting systematic oppression and injustice. It provides the fundamental knowledge students need about human rights and justice with how to apply the rights-based approach at every level of social work practice to be 'human rights defenders.'"

Susan Mapp, PhD, MSSW, Elizabethtown College

This is a unique masterpiece that is appropriate to become a classic text for students, instructors, scholars, and social development practitioners working hard to ensure social justice by complying human rights-based approaches. The book is comprehensive, analytical, thought-provoking, and apprehends the focus on human rights and justice distinguished social workers from other helping professionals. The book presents a human rights-based approach to justice in social work practice using diversity, positionality, sustainability, and intersectionality lenses to ensure justice in social work practice."

Golam M. Mathbor, MSW, PhD, Professor and Program Director, Doctor of Social Work (DSW) in Human Rights Leadership, School of Social Work, Monmouth University, West Long Branch

Brilliant! Engaging and its content readily accessible. An essential read for bringing the profession back to its historical roots of disrupting and fighting against social exclusion and discriminatory practices that violate human rights. A Human Rights Based Approach to Justice in Social Work Practice is transformative and introduces its readers to critically think, act, and advocate to promote social, economic, and environmental justice for all."

Rebecca L. Thomas, PhD, University of Connecticut, School of Social Work