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Social Justice & Human Rights

Social Justice & Human Rights Dr. Matthew Robinson Associate Professor Criminal Justice Appalachian State University “Social Justice” defined “… promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity …

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Social Justice & Human Rights

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  1. Social Justice &Human Rights Dr. Matthew Robinson Associate Professor Criminal Justice Appalachian State University

  2. “Social Justice” defined • “… promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity … • “all people share a common humanity and therefore have a right to equitable treatment, support for their human rights, and a fair allocation of community resources … • “… people must not be discriminated against, nor their welfare and well-being constrained or prejudiced on the basis of gender, sexuality, religion, political affiliations, age, race, belief, disability, location, social class, socioeconomic circumstances, or other characteristic of background or group membership … • -- Toowoomba Catholic Education

  3. “Human rights” defined • “… born free and equal in dignity and rights … • … without distinction … to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status … • Includes … “right to life, liberty and security of person” … freedom from “slavery or servitude … torture or … cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment … right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law … equal protection of the law … protection against any discrimination … arbitrary arrest, detention or exile … full equality to a fair and public hearing …”

  4. “Human rights” defined • “… right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence” … freedom from “arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence” … “freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state … right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country … right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution … right to a nationality … right to marry and to found a family … right to own property alone as well as in association with others … right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion … freedom of opinion and expression … freedom of peaceful assembly and association …”

  5. “Human rights” defined • “… right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives … right of equal access to public service in his country … right to social security and is entitled to realization … of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality … right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment … right to equal pay for equal work … right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests … right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay …”

  6. “Human rights” defined • “ … right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services … right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control … right to education … Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children … right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits … right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author …” • -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  7. Goals … • Create and maintain a mechanism on campus and in the community to achieve social justice and defend human rights (Social Justice & Human Rights Center) • Bring awareness to and engage in meaningful work on social justice and human rights issues through teaching, research, and service.

  8. Functions … • Create and house a cross-disciplinary library or reading room on social justice & human rights (SJHR); • Organize cross-disciplinary SJHR classes and workshops on and off campus; • Encourage scholarship in SJHR from cross-disciplinary perspectives; • Conduct and publish meaningful research in SJHR using cross-disciplinary perspectives; • Encourage and participate in grant-writing related to SJHR;

  9. Functions … • Write regular columns and editorials in local and regional papers on SJHR issues; • Reach out to media on SCJR issues; • Attract nationally & regionally recognized experts on SJHR issues from various disciplines and areas of expertise to deliver Center-sponsored key note speeches; • Attract nationally & regionally recognized experts on SJHR issues to present workshops; • Work with local and regional organizations on a volunteer basis to address SJHR issues.

  10. Working Areas … • Will depend on interest and abilities of faculty, staff, and students … • Diversity, poverty & classism, race & racism, gender & sexism, discrimination; • Peace & justice, anti-war/collaborative & cooperative conflict resolution; • Protection of civil liberties, academic freedom, crime prevention, protection of free elections; • Environmental protection and justice, living wages, workplace safety … ETC…

  11. THOUGHTS, IDEAS???

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