Human rights, inclusion and social justice

International Perspectives on Challenges of Social Work in a Globalised World: Human Rights, Inclusion and Social Justice is one of the main outcomes of a summer school at Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, focusing on themes and issues surrounding Social Work as a Human Rights Profession. For two weeks, social work students and lecturers from Chile, Colombia, Germany, India, Namibia, Russia, and the United States of America participated in the summer school to learn and exchange about human rights in the past and present in their respective countries. The articles in this volume document and reflect on the contents and experiences of the summer school, as well as on research and practices of the partner universities, striving to understand, and further develop the fundamental links between social work and human rights.