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Competency: Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice.

Social workers understand that every person, regardless of position in society, has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education. Social workers understand the global interconnections of oppression and human rights violations, and are knowledgeable about theories of human need and social justice and strategies to promote social and economic justice and human rights. Social workers understand strategies designed to eliminate oppressive structural barriers to ensure that social goods, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably and that civil, political, environmental, economic, social, and cultural human rights are protected.

Advanced Practice Behaviors. Social workers:

• Apply their understanding of social, economic, and environmental justice to advocate for human rights at the individual and system levels;

• Engage in practices that advance social, economic, and environmental justice;