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Caritas et veritas 2015, 5(1):135-143 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2015.014

Social Work, Democracy and Human Rights - What Follows from the Dignity of the Human Person?

Tadeusz Kamiński
Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie, Widział Nauk Historycznych i Społecznych, ul. Wóycickiego 1/3, 01938 Warszawa

The paper presents social work as a means of implementing human rights and democracy as a necessary framework of its successful realization. It then focuses on one particular human right, whose observation by social workers is a matter of controversy, namely the right to life. It describes three different strategies a social worker can assume when dealing with a case of unwanted or unexpected pregnancy and concludes that all appeal to human rights and use the formal frames of democracy.

Keywords: social work, democracy, human rights, right to life, abortion

Published: March 30, 2015  Show citation

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Kamiński, T. (2015). Social Work, Democracy and Human Rights - What Follows from the Dignity of the Human Person? Caritas et veritas, 5(1), 135-143. doi: 10.32725/cetv.2015.014
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