Children’s rights and childhood are concepts that are a part of everyday discussions for many people around the world, but the understanding of the concepts shifts through time and space. The Convention on the Right of the Child, CRC, is supposed to protect children’s rights and relies upon the idea of childhood that describes children both as active agents and in need of protection. UNICEF, an organization within the UN, has the CRC as a guiding principle to achieve its mission to improve the lives of every child globally. However, previous research has criticized the CRC and UNICEF for ignoring particular children’s needs and having a western bias. Thus, even if an international social work program aims to protect children’s rights, it can end up excluding the needs of particular groups of children. This study aims to provide an understanding of how the problem of children’s rights discriminations is represented to be in UNICEF’s campaign #ENDviolence. The study fulfills the aim by using Carol Bacchi’s approach “What’s the problem represented to be?” WPR, and its six guiding questions. The empirical data is UNICEF’s campaign report, because the present study aims to investigate children’s rights discrimination, and the organization works with children and uses the CRC as a guiding principle. The study uses the WPR approach because it stresses that problems are created and given meanings through policies and programs. This study also uses the social constructionist theory and the two concepts, intersectionality and intertextuality, to provide a broader understanding. The results show that the campaign does only have a limited intersectional perspective, by not including children’s different identities, relating to such as race, nationality, alternative gender identification and sexuality, and abilities/disabilities, and it also does not acknowledge children’s multiple identities. Instead, the problem representation solely relies upon the concepts of sex (boy/girl) or age. Hence, the campaign leaves particular children and their needs unrecognized. An explanation for this approach is the campaign’s stable intertextual connection to the UN, and the writings, CRC and SDGs, Sustainable development goals. The campaign also tends to have a western bias, through silencing western countries, the data it uses and how it presents the data. The campaign ignores particular children and how institutional structures may affect them differently because of their identities. Thus, discrimination and violence against specific children can continue and suggested solutions would not necessarily help them.

Allt fler socialarbetare väljer idag att åka ut i världen för att arbeta med olika projekt. Det internationella perspektivet är av stor relevans för socialt arbete då globaliseringen av världen gör länder allt mer beroende av varandra och sociala problem kräver internationella lösningar. Kunskaper om hur man arbetar med sociala problem på en strukturell nivå är mycket viktigt inom det internationella fältet för att uppnå hållbara förändringar. Syftet med uppsatsen har varit att bidra med en förståelse för hur socialarbetare arbetar med förändring utifrån ett strukturellt perspektiv inom socialt arbete i utvecklingsländer. Det vi frågat oss är vilka möjligheter som finns, vilka utmaningar och hinder som kan uppstå samt vilka metoder och kunskaper som är viktiga vid socialt förändringsarbete i utvecklingsländer då man arbetar utifrån ett strukturellt perspektiv. För att svara på uppsatsens syfte och frågeställningar har vi valt att genomföra fem kvalitativa intervjuer med socialarbetare med erfarenhet av strukturellt socialt arbete i utvecklingsländer. Intervjumaterialet har bearbetats och analyserats utifrån: Teorier kring Social Mobilisering, Systemteori och Maktteorier samt utifrån tidigare forskning. Intervjumaterialet visar på att det finns stora möjligheter att uppnå förändring på strukturell nivå men att det kan uppstå utmaningar och hinder på vägen. Makt och hierarkier är exempel på sådana hinder. Viktiga metoder för att öka dessa möjligheter är exempelvis att arbeta på flera nivåer i samhället och att arbeta tillsammans med de människor som hjälpen åsyftar. Kunskaper om helhetsperspektiv som inkluderar individ, grupp och samhälle är av betydande vikt för socialarbetaren i det strukturella förändringsarbetet i utvecklingsländer och vikten av att vara lyhörd, respektfull och ödmjuk lyfts fram.

This Bachelor’s thesis is the result of a field study conducted in urban Bolivia. The aim of the study was to get a deeper understanding of the factors that can endorse or limit the potential for the women in a women’s group to influence social and economic agendas. It is a qualitative study that concerns the international social work with a women’s group, whose purpose seek to serve professional management in the production and selling of handicrafts. Participant observations in the women’s group, as well as interviews with two of the international social workers involved with the group were conducted. The results were analysed using a feminist theory perspective, with intersectionality theory as the main tool for analysis. The findings show that the access to income-generating activities can widen the elements of social identification for the women through active learning-processes, and further move towards an image where they become social actors. Concerns regarded if decision-making power were equally distributed among all women in the group.

Socialarbetare som arbetar i Turkiet beskrivs uppleva dilemman som ständigt påverkar deras arbete. Trots detta förekommer begränsad internationell och nationell forskning som undersöker turkiska socialarbetares upplevelser av arbetet. Tidigare forskningsstudier har redovisat att socialarbetare i Turkiet upplever att de internationella arbetsvärderingarna innehåller förtryck och orättvisor samtidigt som arbetet i sig beskrivs bidra med känslomässig utmattning och osäkerhet. De etiska dilemman som turkiska socialarbetare beskrivs uppleva anses vara omfattande, däremot förekommer begränsad information om förhållningssättet gentemot de etiska riktlinjerna i arbetet. Denna kvalitativa studie syftar därmed till att undersöka turkiska socialarbetares upplevelser av arbetet och dess förhållningssätt gentemot IFSWs globala etiska riktlinjer. Studien bygger på nio semistrukturerade intervjuer med socialarbetare i Turkiet varpå ett subjektivt perspektiv har varit en central aspekt. Studiens resultat visar att socialarbetare i Turkiet upplever en brist på riktlinjer och regler i arbetet vilket har resulterat i en känsla av osäkerhet och begränsat handlingsutrymme. De befintliga insatserna beskrivs även vara så pass otillräckliga att de har kommit att påverka socialarbetarna på en subjektiv nivå. Vidare beskrivs orättvisa förhållanden förekomma inom landet vilket påverkar arbetets prioriteringar och arbetarnas möjligheter till en påverkan på arbetet. Slutligen framkommer det att det inte förekommer några etiska riktlinjer inom arbetet eller någon form av kännedom om IFSWs globala etiska riktlinjer, trots att Turkiet utgörs av ett medlemsland i IFSW. / Turkish social workers are to a greater extent described to be experiencing dilemmas that are affecting their quality of work. Despite the circumstances, there is an insufficient amount of research on a national and international level that subjectively examines the Turkish social workers' experiences in the workspace. Previous research has shown that social workers in Turkey believe the international work values contain elements of oppression and injustice while the duty is described as a contributing factor to increased exhaustion and uncertainty. The ethical dilemmas Turkish social workers are faced with can be regarded as extensive, albeit there is insufficient knowledge regarding the method of approach towards the ethical guidelines for social workers. The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine Turkish social workers' experiences within their line of work and their approach towards the IFSW global ethical guidelines. The study is based on nine semi-structured interviews with social workers in Turkey, where a subjective perspective regarding their experiences has been a central aspect. This study finds that social workers in Turkey experience a lack of guidelines and rules within their line of work which contributes to an increased uncertainty amongst the social workers, thus also limiting their capacity for action. The existing efforts are described as being inadequate to the point where it has affected the social workers quality of work to a subjective degree. Furthermore, there is an overall consensus that occurrences of unfair conditions are not a rare sight in the country. This affects the social workers priorities and possibilities of having an influence in their work. Finally, it emerges that no standardized ethical guidelines are being followed, nor is there any knowledge of the IFSW global ethical guidelines despite the fact that Turkey is a member state of IFSW.

This work deals with professional ethical reflection and analysis of the code of ethics of social workers to join in the broader context of the social work profession and human rights principles. The introduction deals with disabilities, the basic concepts of ethics and social work with regard to the specifics of the social work profession and the requirements of professional social worker. Based on professional ethical reflection theoretical work also analyzes the document Code of Ethics of Social Workers of the Czech Republic in comparison with the International Social Work Code of Ethics and the Code of Charity Czech Republic with an emphasis on the interpretation of the principles of human rights and social justice. At the end of the work in relation to analysis tries to summarize the importance of criticism and also updated the Code of Conduct, including an indication of other possible paths to explore this issue.