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Let’s celebrate World Day of Social Justice

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

“None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice…Jesus tells us what the ‘protocol’ is, on which we will be judged. It is the one we read in chapter 25 of Matthew’s Gospel” (Pope Francis).

On Tuesday, February 20, the world will observe World Day of Social Justice (WDSJ). It aims to “support efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, gender equity and access to social well-being and justice for all”.

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World Day of Social Justice Exhibition

CCSJ’s organised an exhibition at NALIS on Friday February 21 to commemorate UN World Day of Social Justice. As well as  outdoor displays, many groups joined CCSJ’s exhibition in the Adult Library on the first floor. Bishop Emeritus Malcolm Galt kindly cut the ribbon to open the Exhibition with some profound words from the Holy Father.

View some video clips.

World Day of Social Justice at Nalis (with Poem)

Amerindian Community at World Social Justice Day

War, Poem Recited at World Social Justice Day

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Observing World Day of Social Justice

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

On Thursday, February 20, the World Day of Social Justice will be observed. This is a day when countries are asked to recommit to address issues such as poverty, social exclusion and unemployment, which were among the goals of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen. 

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Go youth! Become catalysts of a new world

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Tomorrow my father, Balgobin Ramdeen, will be 88 years old. Happy Birthday, Pa!  In preparation for CCSJ’s next Ask Why TV programme (see TCN Channel 10 on July 23), Pa and I have been discussing the theme: Youth and Social Justice. He told me a story about how, even as a young boy, he took action against injustice. 

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World Day of Social Justice

by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI
by Leela Ramdeen, Chair, CCSJ and Director, CREDI

Wednesday, February 20 is the fifth World Day of Social Justice. At its sixty-second session, in November 2007, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed February 20 as World Day of Social Justice. The day was observed for the first time in 2009.

For us Catholics, the work for social justice is an integral part of the mission of the Church:

“Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appears to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the gospel or, in other words, of the Church’s mission for the redemption of the human race and its liberation from every oppressive situation” (World Synod of Bishops, 1971).

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