SOCIAL JUSTICE LAWYERING: WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE LAWYERS

Abstract

Social justice is justice that follows the principle that all individuals and groups are entitled to a fair and impartial treatment. Social justice attempts to prevent human rights abuses. Social justice is based on notions of equality and equal opportunity in society. 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. It focuses on the full and equal participation of all citizens in economic, social and political aspects of the nation.  

It derives its authority from the codes of morality in each culture and differs from culture to culture. United Nation’s objectives of social justice policies include social, economic and cultural rights, including right to an adequate standard of living; right to work and equal pay for equal work; right to education; and right of minorities to enjoy their own religion, language and culture. When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else's oppression, we'll find our opportunities to make real change. 

 While geopolitics played a key role in determining the extent to which human rights were pursued as part of a governmental foreign policy agenda, international nongovernmental organizations whose core missions were to uphold and promote the human rights principles set forth in the UN Declaration on Human Rights and the core international human rights treaties, sought to advance human rights globally, sometimes despite the particular foreign policy objectives of the state and these have been realized by our lawyers who seek to ensure rights to the citizens.