World Day of Social Justice provides students and teachers with an excellent opportunity to focus attention on the barriers to social well-being that millions of people face because of gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture or disability.
Why Care About Social Justice:
Why Care About Social Justice:
- Genocide Watch has identified emergency situations in Syria, Sudan, Ehiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Myanmar
- Of the 2.3 million refugees forced to flee Syria, 1.1 million are children (UN HRC)
- One hundred million more women would be alive today if females had equal access to nutrition and health care. (WHO)
- Eighty-two million girls now aged 10 to 17 will be married before their 18th birthday (UNFP).
- 1.7 million children under the age of 5 died from vaccine-preventable diseases in 2008 (WHO)
- There are currently 1 billion people who do not have access to safe drinking water. (UNICEF)
- Over 50 countries currently recruit children under the age of 18 into their armed forces. (UN)
- The tuberculosis rate among Canada’s First Nations is 10 times higher than that of the population as a whole. (CBC)
- The gap between rich and poor within and among nations continues to grow and promote conflict.
- Social justice is an underlying principle for peaceful and prosperous coexistence within and among nations
- A sustainable future involves meeting the needs of all people.
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Resources for extending the learning
- A Commitment to Children-A Middle School Unit Elementary, Middle
- Bridges that Unite Elementary, Middle
- Children's Rights Elementary, Middle
- Climate Change, Poverty, and Women Middle, Secondary
- Environment Secondary
- Global Kidz Elementary
- Stand By Me Middle, Secondary
- This Child, Every Child
- World of 100 Secondary
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