Describe the experience in a factual manner: where, when, what, and why. Discuss what were your personal motivations and values that informed your decision. *If you do not have an experience to draw from, you can view a film that encompasses the narrative of a person who stood up for a specific human rights issue and describe the experience from this person’s point of view. For possible relevant films, please review the links below
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/31/human-rights-watch-film- festival_n_5413640.html
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/ether/seven-must-see-human-rights-films-netflix-documentary-film
Identify current U.S. policies and procedures related to the human rights issue you identified.
How do the current U.S. policies and procedures compare to the tenets of the IFSW Codes of Ethics and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Please reference human rights theory and knowledge. *Add link
As a professional social worker, describe what changes you would advocate for that are aimed at social change and social justice.
Compare and contrast your current professional motivations and values as a BSSW student/emerging social worker advocating for socially just changes within U.S. policies and procedures with your personal motivations and values from the earlier experience when you stood up for human rights.
Please be sure to emphasize the way(s) in which your past human rights action did or did not hold to specific human rights (from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and IRSW Code of Ethics. * Add Link for Universal Declaration of Human Rights, IRSW
How does the guidance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights strengthen your understanding of human rights?
How does the guidance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights strengthen your commitment to being an advocate for social justice within the profession of social work?
References must be in APA 7 format.
Use of pertinent LITERATURE, creativity, and originality in the use of self and personal insight as well as the structure of the composition, syntax, punctuation and coherence will also be taken into account in the grading of the paper.
Paper: 8-10 pages
Use of literature/data/code of ethics, and originality.