Kontakt 2013, 15(4):431-444 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2013.051

Human rights in selected laws related to social workHealth and Social Sciences - Original article

Jana Gabrielová
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra sociální práce

The contribution is concerned with the issue of human rights. In the contribution prevails the legal aspect of human right determination with the emphasis on the sphere of social work.
The aim of the work is to identify common attributes and differences of human right determination in the laws related to social work in the following countries: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of South Africa.
For data acquisition we used the qualitative content analysis of documents. Prior to the beginning of the analysis we created a professional literature based on a priori categories of human rights. Consequently we coded the segments related to the a priori created categories.
The methods of data recollection lead to achieve pieces of information that were later compared by means of the comparative analysis. For each inspected country we created diagrams that show the current state of the a priori created categories in its legal system. Consequently we compared the diagrams and looked for differences and common attributes of human right determination.
In connection with human right determination we realised that in all inspected countries laws pay attention to the civil rights. Among the inspected countries we found out most differences in the sphere of social rights. The economic rights are mentioned only in the legal system of the Slovak Republic. Cultural rights are present in the laws of the Slovak and the Indonesian Republic. Both countries pay attention to the right to education.
We detected reference to human rights in all inspected laws. It follows that human rights and their observance is crucial for the social work.

Keywords: compression; qualitative content analysis; human rights; social work; laws

Received: September 16, 2013; Accepted: October 9, 2013; Published: December 20, 2013  Show citation

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Gabrielová J. Human rights in selected laws related to social work. Kontakt. 2013;15(4):431-444. doi: 10.32725/kont.2013.051.
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