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What is Social Justice in United States of America?

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Social justice can be defined as promoting a just society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity where all people  have a right to equitable treatment and support for their human rights. In conditions of social justice, people are not  discriminated against, 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.

Social justice assures the protection of equal access to liberties, rights, and opportunities.Human rights include general freedom; dignity; life; liberty; security; equality before the law; presumption of innocence until proven guilty; freedom of movement and residence; right to seek and gain asylum from persecution; right to a nationality; the right to marry and have a family; right to own property; freedom of thought, conscience and religion;  freedom of peaceful assembly and association; the right to participate in government; the right to work by free choice and to have protection against unemployment; the right to equal pay for equal work; the right to rest and leisure; the right to an adequate standard of living with food, clothing, housing and medical care inthe event of sickness, disability and old age; the right to education; the right to participate in the community and "to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits"; the right to the "protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which [one] is the author.  Additionally, people enjoy freedom from slavery or servitude; torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; discrimination; arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile; arbitrary interference with privacy; among many others.

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