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S: http://www.advocate-for-children.org/advocacy/important_concepts_social_justice/start (last access: 6 March 2013); https://sipa.fiu.edu/resources/internships/humanitarian-socialjustice/ (last access: 2 September 2014).

N: 1. Social justice is defined as “… promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity.” It exists when “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.” In conditions of social justice, people are “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, 2006).
2. Social justice is generally equated with the notion of equality or equal opportunity in society. Although equality is undeniably part of social justice, the meaning of social justice is actually much broader (Scherlen and Robinson, 2008). Further, “equal opportunity” and similar phrases such as “personal responsibility” have been used to diminish the prospective for realizing social justice by justifying enormous inequalities in modern society (Berry, 2005). The most recent theories of and scholarly statements about social justice illustrate the complex nature of the concept.

S: 1& 2. http://gjs.appstate.edu/social-justice-and-human-rights/what-social-justice (last access: 29 July 2015).

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CR: ecofeminism, human rights, patriarchy.