What is Social Justice?
Social justice can be defined as the principle that all persons are entitled to essential human needs and rights, regardless of differences in class, gender, race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, citizenship, age, religion, sexual orientation, ability, or health. Social justice entails working to establish equal opportunities for all and to eradicate poverty.
The Social Justice Series
The Social Justice Series (SJS) is a program in which the Lawrence University Volunteer and Community Center invites a series of guest speakers, who are involved with projects related to social justicethemes. Past presentations have been dedicated to Wisconsin’s School-funding Crisis, Asylum for the World’s Battered Women, and Genocide in Rwanda. For this 2009-2010 school year, speaker Floriane Robins-Brown on NCV will initiate the SJS.
Topics of Social Justice
Economic Inequality – Food Crisis |
Gender Inequality– Gender based Violence |
| Protection from Persecution – Political Asylum (Immigration) |
Hope for Orphans |
Links to Check Out
for more Information regarding issues of Social Justice:
Human Rights
American Public Health Association
"Toward a Healthy, Sustainable Food System"
http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm?id=1361
Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/
Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
UN Commission on Human Rights
http://www.un.org/rights/
Human Rights First
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
Poverty
ONE Campaign
http://www.one.org/issues/
BBC World Food Price Watch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/indepth/080702_food_crisis.shtml
Immigration (Refugee and Asylum)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
http://www.unhcr.org
Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/
Women’s Issues
United Nations
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Equality Now
http://www.equalitynow.org/
Children’s Issues
UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/
