Access to Justice and Electoral Integrity legal rights, depending on whether those rights come from constitutions, statutes, common law or statutory instruments. Access to justice is fundamental for promoting emancipation and ensuring human dignity. The document analyses groups of obstacles to access to justice, such as societal, institutional, intersectorial and cultural barriers, as well as related examples of projects and best practice adopted to surmount them. With this, common trends, approaches and solutions are identified for achieving and improving access to justice by eliminating, reducing or side-stepping the obstacles. http://www.biicl.org/documents/485_iba_report_060215.pdf Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development, United Nations, A/RES/70/1 The declaration of the Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizes the need to build peaceful and fair societies, which provide access to equal justice for all, and that are based on respect for human rights (including the right to development) in an effective rule of law, and good governance at all levels, as well as transparent, effective and accountable institutions. Goal 16 establishes the need to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions to all levels. Specifically, it states the importance of the promotion of the rule of law at the national and international level, ensuring equal access to justice for all, and the need to ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision making at all levels. This agenda will most likely guide development programs and policies of countries for the next 15 years. 32

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