Dr. Joseph Wronka, Springfield College Department of Graduate Social Work Keywords:  Whistleblowing, Advanced Generalist Practice, Ethics, Rights Defenders, Mental Illness, Special Rapporteur, Human Rights Abstract:  Abstract:   The Human Rights Triptych, consisting briefly of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, at its center; guiding principles, declarations, and conventions on the right panel, and implementation measures…

Joseph M. Wronka, Professor of Social Work, Springfield College   (Submitted to the newsletter for Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement (SWASC)   In brief, an advanced generalist practice approach means the application of multi-pronged levels of intervention to eradicate social and/or individual malaise, thus ultimately promoting well-being by the satisfactory fulfillment of human need.  Such…

Just tell me what you think.  This group (the Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism (ADVT) based predominately in Iran, is highly esteemed at the United Nations giving help to victims of terrorism, who no fault of their own, become victims of terrorist groups broadly defined to include non-state actors but even government sponsored terrorism….

We are trying to have municipalities in Western Massachusetts (USA) and elsewhere to endorse the document below to Commemorate August 9th as the World’s Day of Indigenous Peoples.  So I ask that you sign it and/or show it to your municipality (or state even country) and ask them to officially (preferably) endorse it.  Implementation can…

A video skyped in to the International Conference on Integrating Human Rights into Health Care Practice, Mangalore, India.  It was a presentation entitled “Creating a Human Rights Culture: The Human Rights Triptych.”  Any thoughts, comments, criticisms, suggestions? Visits: 497

Senator J. William Fulbright, founder of the international Fulbright exchange program between countries once said: The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. What…

The New York Times recently featured an article, which said, in essence that the human rights movement has failed.  I wrote a letter to the editor which said in essence that not paying attention to human rights means ultimately not needing major mandates by many, if not almost entirely, of the world’s religions to do…