To make possible a new humanistic social paradigm
On November 26, 2007, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) declared that the World Day of Social Justice be celebrated on February 20 of each year.
This organization affirms that social justice cannot be achieved without peace and respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
For humanists, social justice is based on establishing equal rights and equal opportunities for all human beings by the simple fact of being born.
To make social justice effective is that every human being, by the fact of living in a social environment, can have access to adequate food, health, housing, education, clothing, services and exercise their freedom of thought and action with the only limit set by the harm to others. In addition, when a person reaches a certain age, he/she needs to ensure his/her future in dignified conditions, for as long as he/she lives.
Evidently the capitalist, warlike, extractivist, mercantilist, predatory and patriarchal world system is a great structural machinery of social injustice.
It is enough to know that at the same time that billions of dollars in imperial currency are annually allocated worldwide for the criminal arms race, more than 6 million children under 15 years of age die in the same period, according to FAO data, from diseases related to malnutrition and dehydration.
We humanists do not need to go into much argumentation when we emphasize that the problems of civilization linked to full employment, food, health, housing and education can be solved in a short period of time, thanks to the fact that the world has been in sufficient technological conditions to do so for decades.
If this possibility does not occur, if social injustice deepens at the planetary level, it is simply because the monstrous speculation of big capital is preventing it.
For humanists, the current paradigm based on wealth and power, which generates social injustice, must be replaced by a humanist paradigm that places health and education as the main priorities in the social field, placing them within the reach of all.
Real democracy, financial banking without usury, the modification of the capital-labor relationship and the culture of non-violence will set the framework for the exercise of power, the financial-economic tools and the methodology of action necessary to effectively advance in the realization of social justice.
International Coordination Team
Federation of Humanist Parties