About World Day of Social Justice
World Day of Social Justice is a UN international day that highlights the need to promote social justice, tackling issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender equality, unemployment, human rights, and social protections.
- Did you know? 600 million new jobs need to be created by 2030, just to keep pace with the growth of the working age population.
- Did you know? Over 60 per cent of all workers lack any kind of employment contract.
On November 26th 2007, the General Assembly declared that starting from the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, February 20th will be celebrated annually as the World Day of Social Justice.
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