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The National Justice Project (NJP) is a not for profit legal service established to promote human rights, social justice and to fight against disadvantage and discrimination in Australia through strategic legal action, effective advocacy and communication. The Project includes academics, legal practitioners and advocates from a wide range of ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 August 2024. Concept in political philosophy For the early-20th-century periodical, see Social Justice (periodical). For the academic journal established in 1974, see Social Justice (journal). Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a ...
The Australian Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution of Australia, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and renamed in 2008. It is a statutory body funded by, but operating independently of, the Australian Government. It is responsible for investigating alleged infringements ...
The guide lays out a corporate social justice framework based on four pillars—human rights, participation, access, and equality—suggesting a process, outcomes, and resources for each category.
The Australian Human Rights Commission's Social Justice Report for 2009, submitted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, devoted a chapter to "Sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities". After outlining the definitions of and criteria for successful homelands and the history of the homelands ...
Environmental justice or eco-justice, is a social movement to address environmental injustice, which occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit.
If the applicant is a resident in one of the 31 country with which Australia has an International Social Security Agreement, [29] residence in that country may count towards the minimum 10-year residence requirement. [28] The applicant may be entitled to other residency exemptions such as lodging the claim in an agreement country. [30]
The organisation also launched the Grandmothers Justice Program in Central Australia, working in remote communities along the Plenty Highway to support the mothers and grandmothers whose young people are engaged in the youth justice system. [21] In 2018, Jesuit Social Services established the Ecological Justice Hub, in Brunswick. The Hub is a ...