1. What is Social Justice?
understand that people experience injustices understand why and how people take action to address injustice

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3. homeless

7. There are many definitions of social justice …

8. Social Justice
Fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice. Business Directory.com

9. Social Justice
It is not just the matter of eliminating hunger, nor even of reducing poverty…It is rather of building a world where every man (person), no matter his (their) race, religion or nationality, can live a fully human life…
Pope Paul VI, On the Development of Peoples, Populorium Progressio, Encyclical letter of 26 March 1967, Article 47

10. Social Justice?
Social Justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with an adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to a school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and appreciation of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health; a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.
Michael Dodson, Annual Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner 1993, p. 10

11. Social Justice deals with many issues, including:
The sick and disabled
Economic Dependency and Unemployment
The elderly
Fair and accessible education
Homeless issues
Poverty
Family Law
Asylum Seekers
Housing
Refugees
Children in care
Criminal Justice: Police, courts and sentencing, prisons, youth and gang crime
The most vulnerable in societies

12. Social Justice Issues Local – e.g. homelessness, youth crime
National – e.g. Indigenous injustice, unemployment
International – e.g. world poverty, slavery

13. Different Approaches to Social Justice
Welfare
Charity
Justice
Aid
Development
Empowerment
Evangelism based
Mixture of the above
Very different Time Frame & Motive

14. Don’t confuse social justice with good works
Social justice should not be confused with charity or good works. It is not that both charity and good works are wrong, but they are only part of the answer. Charity relieves symptoms. Social justice addresses and seeks solutions to issues such as poverty, homelessness, abuse and lack of housing.

15. Social justice involves both the giving of resources and one’s self
Social justice involves both the giving of resources and one’s self. It involves both personal and community sacrifice for the benefits of others. Social justice is not about welfare programs; it is about the building of community, respect for human dignity and self worth, a fair share and distribution of resources and the search for wholeness.