Social Justice
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What is social justice?
- Social justice is about preventing human rights abuses and ensuring adherence to international law.
- "Social Justice" is a term that can have different meanings and implications depending on one's cultural background, political inclinations, and personal beliefs.
- Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination. (Mick Dodson, Annual Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Social Justice Commissioner, 1993.)
- Social justice means being entitled to the same rights and services as all other citizens.
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