Contemporary Social Welfare

•    Social welfare has gained wide outlay in contemporary times

•    This outlay and corresponding realities create a picture of Social Welfare which hasn’t ever been before and which continuously becomes renewed

•    This implies that Social Welfare has departed from the way in which it was viewed in times past featuring a wide range of developments subject to our consideration

Multiculturalism:

•States and comity of states welcome new ideas proliferating from various sources of human cultures regardless of their cultural or customary repugnancies. However, these cultures are subjected to critical review and applied to the wider society.

Multiculturalism:

•This development gives way for mutual understanding among persons in a society of complex cultural antecedents

Human Rights and Freedom

•A deepening and widening concern for the promotion and protection of human rights on all fronts, hastened by the ideal of self-determination in a postcolonial era, is now unmistakably woven into the fabric of contemporary world affairs such as the UN Human Rights Charter of 1948

Global Unity

•The emergence of concerted efforts by states to jell their unity and foster peace among states is getting increased, creating provisions for social rights protection from global perspective. Thus, social welfare in contemporary times occasions unity among nations with the aim of reducing threats on the rights of rights of aliens, refugees, etc.

Economic Liberalism

•Statutes, legislations and laws of states create platforms for economic liberalism

•With this development, states make laws to protect the economic interest of their citizens

•The emergence of capitalism has recalibrated the economic order of contemporary societies

Economic Liberalism

•However, states make laws to encourage favorable economic competition without

glitches, favorable wage system and working conditions for its citizens.

•In same vein, states create convenient economic environment for their citizens to discourage mischief in contractual relations, tax laws etc.

Minority Rights Protection

•The proliferation of large UN conferences in areas such as children’s rights, population, social development, women’s rights, human settlements, and food production and distribution emphasize on minorities.

Minority Rights Protection

•This was not the case in times past as this group of people were mistreated and at most denied of their rights deliberately by

governments of states

Minority Rights Protection

•This was made possible by the effective dismantling of barriers that could mute the voices of minorities

•However, minorities are not those who do not have voices but those who lack the capacity to register their opinions on the state’s table