Meet India’s leading guardians of social justice

The theme of the celebration this year is ‘Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment’, focusing on the formalisation of employment as a prerequisite for reducing poverty and inequality.

Sunday February 20, 2022 , 3 min Read

Since 2009, World Day for Social Justice has been celebrated across the world as a way to promote fairness and equity, as well as work to guarantee fair outcomes for all through employment, social protection, social dialogue, and fundamental principles and rights at work.

Also known as Social Justice Equality Day, the celebration recognises the need to promote social justice, including efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender inequality, unemployment, human rights, and social protection.

The theme of the celebration this year is ‘Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment’, focusing on the formalisation of employment as a prerequisite for reducing poverty and inequality.

More than 60 percent of the world’s employed population — two billion women, men, and youth — earn their livelihoods in the informal economy.

“Promoting the transition to formality is a necessary condition to reduce poverty and inequalities, advance decent work, increase productivity, and sustainability of enterprises and expand government’s scope of action, notably in times of crisis,” according to the United Nations.

On the 14th World Day of Social Justice, SocialStory rounds up NGOs and businesses that recognise the need to promote social justice and are taking on huge problems to help do that.

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