In-person participants are invited to join an opening reception at the historic Kunstmuseum, including guided tours of special exhibits.

The Justice Expo is an open space in the World Forum venue where practitioners and thought leaders from around the world share innovative and original content on justice and the rule of law.

Rule of law around the world is declining. As seen in the most recent WJP Rule of Law Index, in 2021 more countries declined than improved in overall rule of law performance for the fourth consecutive year. This downward trend includes factors related to access to justice, government transparency, anti-discrimination protections, and civic participation. To address these critical challenges, rule of law leaders will share their insights on current justice and governance trends, setting the stage for the Forum’s action-oriented agenda.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish
 

These opening working sessions will explore effective techniques and timely debates related to data collection, monitoring, measurement, and analysis on the three main themes of the Forum - anti-corruption, equal rights and access to justice.

• Access to Justice for Women With Intellectual and Psychosocial Disabilities Online EN / FR / International Sign Language (ISL)
• The Challenges of Measuring Public Integrity: The OECD Public Integrity Indicators Online EN
• Community-Driven Data as a Tool to Foster Equal Rights and Non-Discrimination Online EN / FR / ESP
• Corruption Measurement as an Agent of Change In-Person and Online EN
• Justice Needs and Satisfaction Study in the US: Lessons for Moving from Data to Action In-Person and Online EN
• Launch of the Ibero-American Alliance for Access to Justice In-Person and Online EN, ESP
• Promoting Non-Discriminatory and Inclusive Access to Justice for All Children: A Simulation In-Person EN
• Uneven Effects: Civic Space Restrictions and Excluded Groups Online EN / FR / ESP

In-person participants under 30 are invited to get to know each other over lunch. Come to the World Forum cafeteria, where there will be a dedicated space to eat and network with other young participants.

Innovations in technology can help increase access to justice, promote transparency, and uphold equal rights protections. However, adopting new technologies also poses new and unanticipated dilemmas. This plenary conversation will feature perspectives on the cutting edge of reconciling the diffusion of digital technologies with ethics and the law.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Charting the path forward to advance the rule of law requires utilizing data and evidence to understand the most promising and strategic avenues to devote our collective efforts. This plenary will feature a discussion between leading practitioners who are setting the agenda for accountable governance, people-centered justice, and more inclusive rights protections.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

During these working sessions, participants will explore how to design and implement data-driven strategies that contribute to building more just communities.

• Cultivating Judicial Leadership in the Tech Evolution of Courts Online EN / FR / ESP
• Establishing a People-Centered Access to Justice Research Agenda In-Person EN
• Gender Justice on the Frontlines: Grassroots and Institutional Responses to GBV Online EN / FR / ESP
• The Impact of Data and Evidence in Anti-Corruption Policies in Mexico Online EN / ESP
• Intersectional Discrimination in a Post-Covid World: Violations, Solutions, and Actions In-Person and Online EN
• Pathways to Justice: Effective Tools for Localized Community Solutions In-Person EN
• People-Centered Innovations in Community Justice In-Person and Online EN 
• Whistleblowing for Our Future: Innovations in Society’s Best Anti-Corruption Tool In-Person and Online EN

Rule of Law Award

The World Justice Project Rule of Law Award recognizes extraordinary achievements by individuals and organizations to strengthen the rule of law in exemplary ways. This year’s award will go to a recipient working to counter disinformation to build trust and safeguard the rule of law.

Music and Dance Performance

This evening program will feature musicians from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, who have fled their homeland to protect their cultural heritage, and a performance by the Codarts Rotterdam dance troupe.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

The Justice Expo is an open space in the World Forum venue where practitioners and thought leaders from around the world share innovative and original content on justice and the rule of law.

What approaches are working to influence systemic change on access to justice, anti-corruption and equal rights? This plenary conversation will feature leaders from civil society, business, and the justice sector sharing success stories from their work and lessons learned for the rule of law movement.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

The World Justice Challenge is a global competition to identify, recognize and promote good practices and high-impact projects and policies that protect and advance the rule of law. During this showcase, the 30 finalists from 26 countries will present their initiatives and field questions from Forum participants.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

In-Person attendees traveling from or with special interest in Asia Pacific are invited to join a special networking session to discuss trends, challenges and opportunities in the region.

A concrete people-centered approach to justice programming is emerging. It brings sustainable solutions along with impressive social and economic benefits. Organized by The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL), the session will bring together important changemakers from several countries to discuss how national people-centered justice programs can work on the ground.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Organizer: The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL)

5.1 billion people lack access to justice worldwide, causing unprecedented social and economic impact. To close the Justice Gap, innovation is needed to bring new services to scale that can prevent or resolve justice problems for everybody. Companies with game-changing business and delivery models are a key driver in this transformation of the justice sector.

HiiL’s Justice Accelerator has supported 139 startups in the past 10 years, and some of them are growing fast. HiiL and fund manager FOUNT are launching the Innovating Justice Fund to provide funding and support to early–stage companies that deliver innovative justice solutions in emerging countries with the aim to scale up these companies, address the Justice Gap and hence contribute significantly to SDG 16.3.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X9MrI7zTT_mOJLZEKMGOQw

Women and girls are at the forefront of transformative action for justice, building a world that works better for everyone. Societies with higher levels of gender equality are also characterized by less deforestation and air pollution, lower levels of conflict, and improved health of communities. Despite this, women remain underrepresented in decision-making, and are often portrayed as passive victims of conflict and climate change rather than holders of diverse knowledge and skills. In this HagueTalks, three women on the frontlines for justice will tell their personal stories of defending freedom of speech, fighting climate injustice, and tackling gender-based violence.

Language: English

These sessions will be hosted on the premises of various Hague-based institutions to highlight solutions-oriented work to advance the rule of law by local organizations and global collaborators.

All participants attending this offsite working session must bring a government-issued ID (such as passport or driver’s license) and a face mask.

• Addressing the Enforcement Gap: The Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court In-Person EN
• How to Engage Business in Transforming Governance In-Person EN
• Justice-By-Design: How to Integrate Justice into Technology? In-Person EN
• Localizing the SDGs and Creating More Just and Equitable Communities In-Person EN
• Ombuds Institutions’ Role in Contributing to Access to Justice and SDG 16 In-Person EN

Hosted at The Hague City Hall

A fender bender that turned into a kidnapping case leads documentary filmmaker Roberto Hernández to expose the truth behind Mexico's flawed justice system.

Featuring Roberto Hernández, Director

Language: Film in Spanish with English subtitles; post-screening program in English

The discovery of nearly 200 letters written to the composer Ted Rosenthal’s father, a German refugee in Chicago, by Rosenthal’s grandmother, trapped by the Nazis, inspired a musical work that probes what happens when the Rule of Law fails.

Language: English

The Justice Expo is an open space in the World Forum venue where practitioners and thought leaders from around the world share innovative and original content on justice and the rule of law.

Sherrilyn Ifill is widely regarded as a visionary leader on racial justice and equality in the United States and has powerfully influenced national issues as a prolific scholar, advocate, and advisor. In this keynote interview, Ifill will be recognized in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg’s lifelong service to the causes of equality and rule of law and her many contributions to the World Justice Project’s mission and work. 

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

Organizer: Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

This side event will gather the experiences and insights of current and former OHCHR fellows from different regions of Europe, Central Asia, Africa, and Latin America on minority rights and indigenous people’s issues. These experts will discuss challenges in promoting rights and share experiences that contribute to strengthening cohesion and inclusion.

These working sessions will discuss how to secure new commitments, leverage existing mechanisms, and take actionable next steps for concrete change to advance justice and the rule of law.

• Communicating about Transitional Justice to Advance a Culture of Change Online EN / FR / ESP
• Comprehensive Anti-Discrimination Laws: Foundations for Equal Rights In-Person and Online EN
• Intergenerational Dialogue on People-Centered Justice Online EN
• Judges as Peacebuilders: Judicial Networks as Vectors of Judges’ Independence In-Person and Online EN / ESP
• The Law’s Role in Protecting the Most Vulnerable Populations from Climate Change In-Person and Online EN
• Public Accountability for Democratic Renewal: Improving Access and Efficacy Online EN / ESP / FR
• The Role of Lawyers and Law Societies in Promoting Gender Justice Online EN / FR / ESP
• The Role of People-Centered Justice in Delivering Equality and Inclusion In-Person EN

This conversation will highlight coordinated, strategic, and accountable commitments and investments needed to make progress on access to justice, anti-corruption and anti-discrimination. Speakers will discuss leading initiatives making a key difference and actions needed to move forward.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish

These final working sessions will feature forward-looking discussions on how governments, civil society, the justice sector, business, donors, and other diverse partners can collaborate to successfully address rule of law challenges.

• Access to Justice Land and Environmental Advocates Need to Protect us from Climate Change Online EN / FR / ESP
• Building Partnerships Across Society to Protect Civic Freedoms and Democracy Online EN / FR / ESP
• Challenges and Trends for Accountability Institutions In-Person and Online EN
• Children and Youth at the Table! Intergenerational Action in Realizing Justice for All In-Person EN
• Creating a Functional Justice Marketplace with Public and Private Sector Engagement Online EN / FR / ESP
• Customary and Informal Pathways to People-Centered Justice: What Works In-Person and Online EN
• Democracy Dividends of ESG Investing In-Person and Online EN
• Inform Women, Transform Lives: Cities Increasing Equitable Access to Municipal Services In-Person and Online EN

Five winning World Justice Challenge projects will be announced and awarded a $20,000 cash prize, followed by closing statements highlighting key priorities and actions for change.

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish