Justice

Violence against women remains one of the most widespread human rights violations which takes place every day, and intimate partner...

Armenian Genocide Memorial Monument in Yerevan History continues to divide Armenian and Turkish officialdom, but there are many civil society,...

On April 14th, Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed a proposal to established a 5.5 million dollar reparations fund for victims tortured...

The events in Ferguson, Missouri set off by the death of Mike Brown created a domino effect in raising awareness...

Most teenagers spend a substantial share of their time on Internet, often using social media, which have become a major...

Failing to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, erasing the State's earned income tax credits for low wage working,...

Re-homing, a practice which consists in transferring a child’s custody to non-family members without the oversight of child welfare or...

Glenn Ford, a 64 year-old African American man originally from California, was wrongfully convicted of a murder that took place...

Foster care alumni abandoned by the educational system often become the inmates at youth detention centers and adult prisons across...

“Stigma is a five dollar word for a two dollar concept. It’s prejudice.” Stigma, a set of negative stereotypes tied...

During the past ten years, I traveled to over 100 jails and prisons in the entire east coast of the...

Obama Family leading the 50th Anniversary March- Photo Credit Whitehouse.gov   President Barack Obama, in what may be his most...

UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Teach-In Berkeley, CA – A contingent of 60 graduate students led a teach-in and...

Dorothy Height with President Obama With Black History Month coming to a close, it is important to recognize the contributions...

In recent news, Somalia became the 195th country to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child...

Dr. Lawrence M. Berger is the 12th director of the venerable Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University...

Credit|Shutterstock I received a letter from Tom Silverstein responding to my article on solitary confinement read by his wife who...

Recent reports out of the United States raise important concerns about the soaring rates of children living in poverty which...

As a group of students, staff, and faculty at the University of Utah College of Social Work, we join our...

New York- Many in the New York social work community honored the reclaiming of Dr. King’s legacy, also known as the...