Growing realization of governments, activists, elite, opinion builders and constitutionalists

that constitutions of most of the nations believing in rule of law incorporate explicitly or implicitly the provisions of various International Covenants on Human Rights in one way or the other. For example, the Founding Fathers in India incorporated in the Constitution most of the rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration in two parts - the Fundamental Rights and the Directive Principle of State Policy that covered almost the entire field of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Social work has a vital role to play in shaping an effective global response to the environmental crisis and to the human rights issues that accompany it. This book is an overview of human rights ideas and laws for social workers that stresses the importance of human rights in all types of social work policy and practice.