How can social justice fight social challenges
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Promotion of Equality
Social justice and human rights have a shared goal: human dignity, equally for all. The issues that make social justice difficult to achieve, such as poverty, exclusion and discrimination are in direct contradiction with human rights, which apply to all individuals indiscriminately.
Human rights can help to fight indignity. For example, the right to health should be secured for all as part of respecting human dignity. When a prisoner died from heroin withdrawal after being denied adequate health care, the European Court found that she had suffered degrading treatment in breach of her human rights.
Similarly, Protocol 2 to the ECHR says that no person shall be denied the right to education. The European Court of Human Rights has found that a child’s rights were breached when he was suspended from school for refusing to accept corporal punishment.
Anti-discrimination
In addition to promoting equality generally, human rights protect against direct and indirect discrimination based on certain characteristics. Article 14 of the ECHR ensures that no one may be discriminated against because of their sex, race, religion, political opinion, sexual orientation or nationality in exercising their rights.
In 1994, two members of the Royal Air Forcewere dismissed from their jobs for being gay. The European Court of Human Rights found that the armed forces’ policy of excluding homosexuals could not be justified and the individuals’ human rights had been violated.
Welfare systems
The UK has a long and proud tradition of providing social support (a ‘safety net’) when citizens are unable to meet their basic needs by themselves. These systems include the NHS, housing support, and disability allowances. Maternity provisions are a clear example; if a woman becomes pregnant, which only women can do, would it be compatible with social justice for her to lose her job and income? No. And there are systems to protect mothers’ employment rights in the UK.
Human rights are part of this safety net. When a family were re-housed, the accommodation which the state provided was not adapted for the needs of a disabled member of the family. This was a violation of her human right to family and private life.
Just last year, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the body which tracks how states are putting the ICESCR into effect) criticised the UK’s policy of using austerity measures that negatively impact the rights of disadvantaged and marginalised people.
Employment rights
Equal distribution of wealth is a cornerstone of social justice. RightsInfo has previously explored Why Human Rights Are Essential For Tackling Poverty. Equal sharing of wealth is enhanced through equal opportunity for employment.
Many laws protect workers. Health and safety standards, equal pay, working hour limitations, and the freedom to form and join trade unions are examples. With more people today living in conditions of slavery than ever before, laws protecting against labour exploitation, like the Modern Slavery Act 2015, are vital to achieve social justice.
Government accountability
Earlier this year, at the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Theresa May recognised government’s role in ensuring social justice:
[I]f you are someone who is just managing, just getting by, you don’t need a government that will get out of the way. You need an active government that will step up and champion the things that matter to you.
Human rights provide a legal framework that allows individuals to hold government to account and requires the state to create conditions necessary for the achievement of social justice.
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Social Justice means giving the right of equality among all the people living in the society. There are a lot of discrimination based on sex, illiteracy, racism, colour, religion etc.
For social Justice awareness should be spread among the people. There are various way of spreading awareness Sachin's Mass communication, education, personal meetings etc.
When one faces discrimination he should directly report it to the authority or the police. For social Justice the human rights should be provided to all the classes of the society.
Poverty is the major factor affecting the social injustice among the people.