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"Social justice is a broad concept in that it seeks to end discrimination against all marginalized communities, which are discussed individually using identity categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, and age, among others."
Social Justice. (2020). In Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. Retrieved from https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999375/OVIC?u=highlands_edu&sid=OVIC&xid=68302368
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In 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the United Nations Commission responsible for creating a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not entirely unproblematic, the declaration is based on Western thoughts and points-of-view. Objections have come from the nation of Islam on topics related to family and religion. However, the declaration represents an effort to outline rights that all human beings should have.
(Source: Gjelten, T. (2018, Dec 10). Boundlessly idealistic, Universal Declaration Of Human Rights is still resisted. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/675210421/its-human-rights-day-however-its-not-universally-accepted)
Free access to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Text only: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Illustrated: https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/