Each year on February 20, the World Day of Social Justice is commemorated. The goal of the World Day of Social Justice is to elevate awareness about social inequality and to introduce people from all walks of life together across the world to eradicate poverty, sexual identity and biological prejudice, lack of education, and religious bigotry in order to create a more socially inclusive community.
To promote awareness of social inequality and break down barriers based on gender, age, colour, region, religion, tradition, or disabilities. The celebration promotes international efforts to find sustainable solution growth, reducing poverty, complete decent work and economic growth, full social welfare, sexual equality, and universal availability of social well-being and equality for everyone.
World Day of Social Justice 2024 Date
Event | World Day of Social Justice |
Date | February 20, 2024 |
Day | Tuesday |
Theme | Advancing social justice (Social justice at the centre of international, national and regional policy agendas) |
History of World Day of Social Justice
The World Day of Social Justice is a worldwide commemoration that has been in place from 2009. It is not an official holiday.
In 1995, more than one hundred worldwide politicians gathered in Denmark, Sweden, for a World Summit on Social Development to address poverty and high employment, as well as to aim for secure and predictable communities.
They came to an agreement to issue a statement known as the Declaration of Copenhagen and Programme of Action for Global Development. Eventually, on November 26, 2007, the United Nations designated February 20th as the annual World Day of Social Justice.
In the age of globalization and the free market economy, the 2008 Declaration informs the current perspective of the ILO’s mission. Nonetheless, the World Summit leaders noted that human progress included social equality, cooperation, peace, and fairness between and within states.
Although every country considers gender equality, justice, and parity to be basic principles, authorities must develop strong structures to attain “society for all” levels, ensuring that social justice is supported at the national, local, regional, and global levels. Establishing fair chance for job applicants, enabling for equal distribution of income, and providing better access to opportunities via equal opportunity had become the world leaders’ rallying cry.
Purpose of World Day of Social Justice
The day’s aim is to speak out against racial injustice and promote worldwide social justice. The day’s objective is to bring people from all walks of life closely together so that unemployment, bodily and gender prejudice, bigotry, religion prejudice, illiteracy, and prejudices can be eliminated.
Only until the world’s civilizations are free of the aforementioned curses can a varied global culture arise, in which everyone has equal chances and everyone accepts others.
World Day of Social Justice 2024 Theme
World Day of Social Justice 2024 theme is “Advancing social justice (Social justice at the centre of international, national and regional policy agendas)”.
World Day of Social Justice 2023 theme was “Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Opportunities for Social Justice”
The theme of World Day of Social Justice 2022 was “Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment”.
“A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy” was the theme of the 2021 World Day of Social Justice.
The celebration in 2021 supported global efforts to develop sustainable solutions to growth, poverty reduction, high employment and fair labour, global social security, gender equality, and universal access to public quality of life and justice for all.
World Day of Social Justice 2024 Quotes
“The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.” (Marian Wright Edelman)
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” (Frederick Douglass).
“The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche.” (Wilhelm Joseph)
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February 20
Advancing social justice (Social justice at the centre of international, national and regional policy agendas)
To speak against racial injustice
