Access to Justice and Electoral Integrity of law and its link to access to justice is most relevant when building and strengthening electoral integrity. The EII´s scope of action is in line with this interpretation of the rule of law, which aims at being operational under diverse contexts. When the rule of law is operational, it contributes to the enhancement of conditions which allow better governance and sustainable human development by: A. Enabling economic growth by promoting stability based on the protection of individual rights, providing certainty about the applicable market regulations and making available judicial instances that are accessible to enforce and protect them. B. Facilitating an institutional framework to foster equality, inclusion and social justice through the legal recognition and enforcement of rights for all segments of society. C. Strengthening accountability and providing checks on power, which can reduce abuses of power and corruption, including through the enforcement of civil, political and human rights. If the rule of law provides a legal framework under which everyone is treated equally and with the certainty that resolutions and sentences will be fulfilled, it must also be applied systematically. In this sense, broad access to justice should translate into the transparent enforcement of laws and regulations to ensure that “all persons, institutions and entities, public and private, including the State itself, are accountable to just, fair and equitable laws and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.”14 9