Question

One of the week’s themes has been the human tendency to blindly follow rather than to resist injustice. Considering the world in the twenty-first century, what is a recent or current example of injustice and in what ways have we either failed to question, critique, challenge, and resist that injustice, or alternately, in what ways has active questioning, challenging, critiquing, and resisting rectified an injustice? Be specific and use as much detail as possible to explain your choice.

Answer 1

One of the most common injustice that we have seen in this day is child labour and the fact that children have lost what should be called as their child hood. In many countries, the developing countries, there has been observation of a huge number of children who have been exploited, subjected to labour or even used for se-xually abusive purposes. This could be identified as a form of social injustice which was prevalent for a long time in the society going unnoticed and people not really putting in much thought into it.

This issue has been acknowledged and raised on the global platform, bringing into notice by one of the Nobel laureates Kailash satyarthi, one of the Indian children’s activists, who had been known to to be the founder of the “bachpan bachao andolan” through the Kailash Satyarthi foundation where a global march against child labour and GoodWeave International acts have been carried out.