Our campaign.

What it means to us.

For 2025, we decided to focus our attention, activities and campaigning efforts around social justice. This is part of our annual work plan for 2025.

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Why social justice?

We believe in a world that is fairer, more sustainable and inclusive for all living beings on our planet. Social justice is a way of rethinking our relationships to the environment, animals and humans that puts justice at the core of everything.

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How we did it.

In the first phase, we brought 40 young Greens from all over Europe to Croatia in the spring of 2025. For three days, we reevaluated what social justice is and how we can reshape that definition to make it as inclusive as possible. There will be two follow-up activities: the Summer Camp and the Young Green Academy.

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The campaign is organised thanks to the financial support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe, the CERV programme of the European Union, the Greens/EFA Group in the European Parliament.

The timeline.

Our definition.

Life is priceless, dignified, and present in all living beings. Social justice stands in opposition to oppressive, non-consensual, violently imposed hierarchical regimes faced within everyday life—be they rooted in human relations, speciesism, or our exploitation of the natural world.

🌱 Social justice requires attentiveness to specific contexts and a commitment to participatory approaches, while also empowering everyone through systemic solutions that enable them to realise their potential and develop the reflexivity needed to do so—caring for others, human or non-human, and the planet along the way.

What it means.

Social justice is recognising the pluralist realities we all share, and insisting that everyone, no matter their gender, heritage, ethnicity, race, age, self-identity, sexual or romantic orientation, nationality, health, or legal status must be equal. It also means standing against human supremacy, challenging extractivism, and understanding that liberation is interconnected.

Social justice is economic equality and democratisation of the means of production and of meeting societal and ecological needs. It is the decentring of profit and power in favour of care, regeneration, and interdependence.

💜 Social justice is every living being having access to security, protection, healthcare, community, freedom, free time, and habitat. The needs, depending on the species, might also include the access to assembly, labour and knowledge.

For social justice to flourish, all labour must be recognised—be it legal, societal, or moral—regardless of the value attached to it. This includes care work, reproductive labour, land stewardship, and the ecological labour performed by non-human animals and ecosystems in sustaining life.

WHAT DOES SOCIAL JUSTICE

MEAN TO YOU?