Solving+Social+Justice+Issues

//“If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I?toc//
 * Rabbi Hillel 360 AD**

//First they came for the [|communists],// //and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.// //Then they came for the [|trade unionists]// //and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.// //then they came for the [|Jews],// //and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.// //Then they came for me//  //and there was no one left to speak out for me.// **Martin Niemöller, writing during the time of Nazis Germany**

Databases
[|a list of Social Issues] [|SIRS Researcher] ID: 45-96418, passwd: bigchalk

[|The Universal Declaration of Human Rights] (1948). is the first universal statement on the basic principles of inalienable human rights

**"Social justice is the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities."** National Association of Social Workers

Issues
[|Bangladeshi Workers fight back against Chinese factory owners]

[|Child Soldiers] [|Child Soldiers from Human Rights Watch] "shooting became just like having a glass of water" [|CNN Video - interview with Ishmael Beah], author of "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier".

[|War] [|War Crimes] Should the US (and all countries) follow the rules of an International Criminal Court? [|Charles Taylor - convicted by International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity]

[|Voting Rights] [|New Voter ID Laws]

[|Environmental Ethics] [|Climate Change from the UN] [|Global Warming SIRS Researcher] Fracking

[|Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior] [|Should there be political spending limits on Corporations?]

[|Dating violence and date rape]

[|Genital mutilation] [|FGM fact sheet] [|FGM Information from WHO] [|Report on Senegal's FGM Intervention Strategies]

[|Bullying]

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 * Violence Against Women articles**
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[|Human Relations - Ethics]

[|the Death Penalty]

[|Health Care Policy from SIRS Researcher]

[|Income inequality] between the rich and the poor - Should the rich pay more taxes? [|Non Partisan Research Center on restoring the 2002 Bush era tax cuts]

[|Racism Timeline from SIRS Researcher]

Women's Rights [|Body Image and societal pressure]

[|Genetically Modified Food: Healthy or Dangerous?] [|Fighting Monsanto] [|Hunger] Is access to food a human right?

[|Stop and Frisk] [|New York Civil Liberties Union on Stop and Frisk] [|Ray Kelly says criticism of **Stop and Frisk** is pandering]

[|Stand your Ground and Castle Laws, Florida] [|Trayvon Martin suspect has been arrested] [|Teacher fired for teaching class about Trayvon Martin]

What is the [|Secure Communities Program] from US Dept of Homeland Security [|Secure Communities Fact Sheet from American Immigration Council]

[|Immigration Impact] [|National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights] [|American Immigration Council] [|Arizona's Immigration Law SB1070] [|Supreme Court Flooded with Briefs opposing SB1070] [|Alabama's immigration Laws]

[|Supreme Court OKs Strip Searches For Minor Offenses]

Should there be [|Hate Crime]Legislation?

[|Labor Unions timeline from SIRS Researcher] [|Minimum wage] [|Chinese workers] [|Secrets, Lies and Sweatshops] [|History of American Sweatshops] [|Child Labor Coalition (CLC)]

[|Human Trafficking]

[|Incarceration in the US] - good article with statistics from Wikipedia [|NAACP] - MISPLACED PRIORITIES: Over-incarcerate vs Under-educate [|Americans in prison]

[|World Hunger]

[|No Smoking Ads] [|Smoking Campaigns - do they work?]

**Terminology**
social justice, advocacy, propaganda, compassion, empathy, POV, objective, subjective

<span style="color: #a61c1c; display: block; font-family: 'trebuchet ms',helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it." -Gandh**