The importance of specific professions for human rights realization is increasingly recognized. Journalists, teachers, and civil servants are all considered to play a role because their work affects individual rights. This is also the case for social workers. The connection between social work and human rights is evident in the large amount of literature explaining how human rights relate to social work. At the same time there is more attention for human rights localization. These fields of knowledge are related: social workers are local professionals and if they start applying human rights in their work this may influence human rights localization. This article contributes to existing debates on human rights localization by reflecting on the potential role of social workers in local human rights efforts in the Netherlands. Since human rights localization in general and human rights application in social work are recent phenomena in the Netherlands this provides a useful case study for a qualitative analysis on whether and how social workers can be regarded as actors in human rights localization. By connecting different actors that are said to play a role in human rights localization to proposed forms of human rights application by social workers this article identifies three possible roles for social workers in human rights localization: as human rights translators, as human rights advocates, and as human rights practitioners.

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翻译者、倡导者还是实践者？社会工作者和人权本地化

特定职业对实现人权的重要性日益得到承认。记者、教师和公务员都被认为在发挥作用，因为他们的工作影响到个人权利。对于社会工作者来说也是如此。在解释人权与社会工作之间关系的大量文献中，社会工作与人权之间的联系是显而易见的。同时，也更加注重人权本土化。这些知识领域是相关的：社会工作者是当地的专业人士，如果他们开始在工作中应用人权，这可能会影响人权本地化。本文通过反映社会工作者在荷兰当地人权工作中的潜在作用，为现有关于人权本土化的辩论做出了贡献。由于一般的人权本地化和人权在社会工作中的应用是荷兰最近出现的现象，这为定性分析提供了有用的案例研究，以确定社会工作者是否以及如何被视为人权本地化的参与者。通过将据说在人权本土化中发挥作用的不同行为者与社会工作者提出的人权应用形式联系起来，本文确定了社会工作者在人权本土化中的三种可能角色：作为人权翻译者、作为人权倡导者和作为人权实践者。