Council on Environmental Justice and Human Rights

The Council on Environmental Justice and Human Rights (CEJHR) is the newly created council of the Commission on Global Social Work Education. The council's charge includes the following: 

  • To provide leadership for the advancement of human rights and the rights of nature.
  • To educate social workers about the global environmental crisis, the impact of climate change, and the disproportionate impact on communities and ecologies, including the historical and continuing colonialist behaviors that led us to this situation.
  • To identify policy implications and mechanisms, advocating for the enhancement and protection of the earth, nature, and peoples across the globe.
  • To advocate for the sovereignty of Indigenous and tribal nations and the importance of place and land-based knowledge and practices within social work education.
  • To recommend the inclusion and development of interventions that redress oppressive structural barriers that interfere with restorative healing.

Chair

Member