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.
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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.
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