Welfare Rights and Human Rights
- 20 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Social Policy
- Vol. 6 (1) , 31-46
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400006346
Abstract
Recent discussions of a ‘welfare rights’ approach in social work have suggested that the European Convention on Human Rights might provide a useful framework, a list of service objectives against which present provision might be assessed. In the present paper the author argues that the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to be preferred, because of its inclusion of social and economic rights. However, there are philosophical and political objections to such a wide-ranging list of human rights. The author attempts to answer these objections in order to release the Universal Declaration as a viable framework for a welfare rights approach.Keywords
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- Social Policy and Social JusticeJournal of Social Policy, 1974