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.

First, we brought 40 young Greens from all over Europe to our European Lab in 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. In July, during a 6-day Summer Camp in Poland, 50 young Europeans learnt what are policies and how they affect our lives; then, based on the definition of Social Justice created in our event in Croatia, they assessed real policies at the regional and national level. Finally, we used all these knowledge to create our own policy proposals through online workshops during the 4-month online Young Green Academy.

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This campaign has been produced by FYEG with the financial support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. The opinions expressed herein are the responsibility of the authors and do not reflect the official opinion of the Council of Europe.

The timeline.

Our definition of social justice

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.

This definition was created by the participants that attended FYEG’s event “European Lab: Social Justice Here and Now“ that took place in Croatia in Spring of 2025.

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 it means.

the policies we analysed during the summer camp!

Common agriculture policy

CAP policies influence food quality, pesticide use, and rural development. We need them to work for the people, the planet and the animals.

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LONDON BIODIVERSITY PLAN

🎯Goal: Preserve and enhance biodiversity to promote higher living standards in the city. Discover our checkmark system and apply it to your city!

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Polish housing policy

Housing is a fundamental expression of the right to live with dignity. It determines access to safety, health, education, and participation in community life.

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Common Security and defence policy

The climate and social justice aspects are not taken into account in the current defence strategy of the EU. Here are our proposals to change that.

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the policy papers we created in our online academy

FOOD SECURITY

This proposal calls for the creation of public grocery stores across Europe as a key step toward a fair food system. Publicly owned or community-managed grocery stores would offer affordable food, prioritizing people, animals, and communities over profit.
The group was led by Saúl Lara.

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INCLUSIVITY

This policy paper, written by young European students, argues and proves that inclusive and diversified education is not merely a technical reform but a fundamental requirement for social justice, democratic participation, and long-term societal resilience.
The group was led by Lusine Barseghyan.

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ECOSYSTEMS

This paper examines the various ramifications of the Europe-wide lack of urban green spaces, including its impacts on mental and physical health go human and non-human animals, air quality, and urban biodiversity.
The group was led by Ignasi Digón.

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