Several key events in 2019 provide a real opportunity to progress on Sustainable Development Goal 16—ensuring access to justice for all—and to do so in ways that tackle inequality, too. In particular, 2019 presents a major opportunity to integrate the rights and development agendas, and to activate the human rights movement to address a significant aspect of inequality. 

In a contributing article for Open Global Rights, WJP Executive Director Elizabeth Andersen outlines this opportunity, the key events that are building momentum, and why the SDG process is perhaps the most promising effort to integrate these agendas that we have seen since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 70 years ago.

Follow the link below to read the article, and join us in advancing SDG 16 this spring at World Justice Forum VI: Realizing Justice for All.
 

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Confidentiality, Power Dynamics, and the Promise of Mediation in Kenya

Judge Jacqueline Kamau sat down with In the Robe to explore how out-of-court settlements advance women’s rights, clear court backlogs, preserve relationships, and protect vulnerable litigants from public scrutiny in Kenya. She analyzes the intersection of formal judicial rulings and customary traditional justice systems, and dispels the myth of the emotionless judge.

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