Building the Movement

This session presented the Microjustice4All legal empowerment and legal inclusion mapping methods as
country specific tools to support the implementation of SDG16. These tools work by identifying legally
excluded groups, their level of vulnerability, and the legal problems that must be solved to promote
empowerment. Participants were instructed on how to start a legal inclusion mapping projects and
sustainable legal empowerment programs to help map and meet the basic daily legal needs of marginalized
groups in their own countries. 

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This session discussed The Challenge Paper on Justice for Children which outlines the distinctive needs and
rights of children in relation to their context as victims, witnesses and offenders in both criminal and civil
disputes, and also explores the broader understanding of access to justice as a process that underpins and
creates conditions for the realization of all other rights. Participants discussed two main challenges. First,
the challenge to ensure the empowerment, participation, and engagement of children in all decisions that
affect their lives. And, second, the challenge to secure high level sustained political commitment to
accelerate the achievement of high quality justice for children, including prioritizing financial resources and
investing in the necessary skills.

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Key tasks for these sessions will be to articulate the narrative regarding justice and its relationship to other outcomes to support future advocacy, developing strategies for promoting key messages and themes in important venues and communities, articulating metrics for measuring progress, and defining what success will look like. 

Working Sessions are concurrent workshops, interactive dialogues and facilitated discussions hosted by a variety of Hague-based institutions around pressing issues and opportunities related to the Forum’s theme of “Realizing Justice for All.” 

Working Sessions are concurrent workshops, interactive dialogues and facilitated discussions hosted by a wide variety of global and local institutions around pressing issues and opportunities related to the Forum’s theme of “Realizing Justice for All.” 

Participants will learn from justice sector case studies, movements in other sectors, and communications experts how to better understand, practice, and deploy the wide range of communications tools and techniques available to achieve their messaging goals.

Working Sessions are concurrent workshops, interactive dialogues and facilitated discussions hosted by a wide variety of global and local institutions around pressing issues and opportunities related to the Forum’s theme of “Realizing Justice for All.” 

Working Sessions are concurrent workshops, interactive dialogues and facilitated discussions hosted by a wide variety of global and local institutions around pressing issues and opportunities related to the Forum’s theme of “Realizing Justice for All.”

There is growing evidence of links between law and health demonstrating that social problems with a legal dimension can exacerbate or create ill health and, conversely, that ill-health can create legal problems. Public health experts have identified social factors as important determinants of health, even more than genes or clinical care. This session discussed the international development of integrating social welfare legal services with health services to address both health and legal needs. Health professionals and legal practitioners have been working to combine their respective services in order to provide more integrated services, such as Medical-Legal partnerships that can help train doctors to identify legal needs and bring legal advice into health provision. Still, there is a need for sustainable resources in the long term. We need to be able to demonstrate the benefits of health justice partnerships, as well as rigorous evidence and an impassioned argument to advance the agenda.

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What is the role of parliaments in relation to realizing “justice for all” and the sustainable development
goals? What should expert parliamentary committees be doing to ensure that national governments are
making progress? The session highlighted best practices from national parliaments, with the help of some
parliamentarians active in the field, and participants discussed the development of resources for
parliaments on their role in relation to access to justice and SDG16. Speakers emphasized the importance
of governing in coalition with others, to reduce partisanship and political influence in addressing the needs
of the justice system. It was also recommended that digitalization should not take place on a grand scale at
huge expense, but should be implemented in phases as economically as possible.

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