CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -NEW» 2023 Theme: “Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Opportunities for Social Justice” At its sixty-second session, in November 2007, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 20 February as World Day of Social Justice. The day is to be observed for the first time in 2009.

Detailed explanation-2: -The UN General Assembly declared the 20 February World Day of Social Justice in 2007. The International Labour Organization (a UN agency) adopted the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization in 2008, strengthening the UN’s commitment to social justice.

Detailed explanation-3: -The theme of World Day of Social Justice 2022 was “Achieving Social Justice through Formal Employment”.

Detailed explanation-4: -It plays an important role in attaining more inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development paths and is key for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), especially at a time when the achievement of those goals remains faraway.

Detailed explanation-5: -It is celebrated to raise a voice against social injustice and to bring the various communities internationally together to eliminate poverty, gender, and physical discrimination, illiteracy, religious discrimination to make a socially integrated society.