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Contents: Introduction, Sven Hessle; Human Rights and Social Equality, Thomas Hammarberg; Social Work and Human Rights: An African Perspective, Vishanthie Sewpaul; Disability and the Struggle for Inclusion: Social work and disability: time for a different response, Tom Shakespeare; Considering two outcomes paradigms: the improving (person-centred) and the proving (managerialist) agendas, Emma Miller; The integration of children and youth with disabilities into family and community life - the social worker as a case manager, Teresa R. Nuqui; Active and Dignified Ageing: Active and dignified ageing in Asia - introduction of the region, Iris Chi; Population decline and ageing in Europe: the need to recycle human and social capital, Nol Reverda; Safeguarding older people from mistreatment. Social work's ethical dilemmas and an ethic of care, Angie Ash; Social integration and self-rated health among older adults in urban China, Weiyu Mao and Iris Chi; Perspectives on Children at Risk: Child protection system mapping and assessment, Kendra Gregson; Child rights/community development principles: key elements for child protection practice, Margaret McKenzie, Cecilie Omre, Liv Schjelderup, Shayne Walker and Susan Young; Project Barnablick: through the eyes of a child. Redefining child advocacy within a not-for-profit organisation, Martin Broby; Working with resistant parents in child protection: recognising and responding to the risks, Brian Littlechild; Youth and Vulnerability - Current Challenges: Youth futures, Shai Lazer; Evidence-based community interventions for tackling the problems of youth gang violence and delinquency in Central America, Rene Olate, Wilson Alvarado, Christopher Salas-Wright and Michael G. Vaughn; International comparative research regarding vulnerable young people: reflections on methodological challenges and solutions, Karen Healy, Ilse Julkunen and Synnove Karvinen-Niinikoski; Violence Against Women: Collaborative work to promote the rights of children affected by violence against women: an evaluative study, Karin Crawford; The woman and girl child phenomenon and gender-based violence (GBV) in Botswana, Simon M Kang'ethe; Challenges in the implementation of the Maria da Penha law for battered women policies in Brazil, Patricia Krieger Grossi et al.; To Fulfil Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Rights: Conflicting and competing expectations: the routinisation and invisibilisation of LGBT rights and narratives, Martyn Higgins; Delivering school-based groups to sexual minority youth: social justice in practice?, Craig Shelley; From the margin to the centre: why and how to launch a debate on LGBT issues in Italian social work?, Urban Nothdurfter and Andrea Nagy; The Right to Health and Social Equality: The right to health and migration, Elis Envall; Drug use and the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of health, Damon Barrett; Accountability and the right to the highest attainable standard of health, Helen Potts; African American adults: the degree to which selected social and cultural variables influence the execution of an advance directive, Tina Jordan; Appendix; Index.

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