Human Rights and Social Justice

Contents: Preface. 1. Human security. 2. Human rights in India. 3. Social justice. 4. Rule of law. 5. Judicial activism. 6. Social injustice and social justice. 7. Social justice in an open world. 8. Equality of outcome and income inequality. 9. Global justice. 10. Policies of international justice and social justice. 11. Annexure I. 12. Annexure II. 13. Annexure III. Index.

"Social justice is the application of the concept of justice on a social scale. The term social justice was coined by the Jesuit Luigi Taparelli in the 1840s, and the idea was maintained and elaborated upon by Father Coughlin in the 1930s and 40s, and was further expanded upon by John Rawls writing in the 1990s. It is a part of Catholic social teaching and is one of the four pillars of the green party upheld by the worldwide green parties. Some tenets of social justice have been adopted by those on the left of the political spectrum." (jacket)