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This article is written from a standpoint that social work can have a claim to a legacy of radical resistance. This legacy is upheld when an unequivocal position is taken against a neoliberal global order that causes human suffering in insidious ways. Global hunger evidences how the genealogy of social problems can be traced to a colonial history and how this is perpetuated by neoliberal policies. Postcolonial analysis in social work compels us to engage in the difficult task of interrogating the history of social problems as a necessary way of understanding their complexity. It is in achieving an incisive understanding of these complexities that social work may yet evolve new analytical paradigms and effectively test tools in active resistance. References will be made to situations in Germany and the Philippines, where both authors live and work.

Part I - Social Work and the Decolonization Project -- Chapter 1 - Human Rights and the Decolonization of Social Work -- Chapter 2 - Relativism, Universalism and Pluriversality in Human Rights -- Part II – History of Social Work as a Human Rights Profession -- Chapter 3 - Interrogating the Colonial Past: The Conflicting History of Social Work as a Human Rights Profession -- Chapter 4 – The Postcolonial Present and a Decolonized Future for Social Work -- Chapter 5 - Kinship Care, Responsibility and Self-Determination: Exploring African Individual and Community Rights in Decolonized Social Work -- Part III - Human Rights Mandate in Social Work -- Chapter 6 - Mapping Basic Human Rights Instruments -- Part IV - Situating Human Rights in the Global North-South Divide -- Chapter 7 - Postcolonial Europe and its Premises for Decolonization -- Chapter 8 - Decolonized Approaches to Human Rights and Social Work in the United States. Chapter 9 – Challenging Coloniality in Social Work Theorizations on Human Rights -- Part V - Decolonized Approaches in Human Rights Advocacy -- Chapter 10 - Understanding the U.S.-Mexico Border Through a Decolonial Lens -- Chapter 11 – Decoding a Colonial Impact – The Women's Movement in India -- Chapter 12 – From Anti-Colonial Revolutionaries to Subversive Feminists – Women in the Philippines -- Chapter 13 – Colonial History of Territorial Dislocation and Landlessness – Indigenous Peoples and Farmers' Food Sovereignty in the Philippines -- Chapter 14 – Lessons from Social Movements: Farmers and Food Sovereignty in India -- Chapter 15 - Decolonizing Social Work Education -- Chapter 16 - A Path Forward for Social Work, Human Rights and Decolonization.