In this article, Stacey Cram compels world leaders to take urgent action to #TipTheScales towards #JusticeForAll in on World Day of Social Justice 2019. “Today, on World Social Justice Day, lend your voice and call on world leaders to fund and protect grassroots justice defenders. Let’s follow the examples set by Mary, Hina, and Claudia and push for what is right – let’s be the movement that creates a new norm that ensures all people have equal access to justice.”
In this article, Grassroots Justice Defender Paul Sixpence shares the protection challenges justice defenders in Zimbabwe are currently facing. According to Sixpence, “the protection from violence, torture, detention and arrest of grassroots human rights defenders by the State has never been paramount in Zimbabwe as is the situation at the moment.”
This blog is part of 10 Weeks of Action: Demanding funding and protection for grassroots justice defenders by calling on our community to sign the #JusticeForAll petition. Each week, we will spotlight how access to justice is critical to the advancement of different thematic issues. The theme for Week 8 is Modern Day Slavery. IJM writes about the uniquely eloquent and effective advocates of “Justice for All” in the form of grassroots justice defenders found in South India, where survivors of bonded labour slavery have formed a registered society to advocate for an end to bonded labour.
This blog is part of 10 Weeks of Action: Demanding funding and protection for grassroots justice defenders by calling on our community to sign the #JusticeForAll petition. Each week, we will spotlight how access to justice is critical to the advancement of different thematic issues. The theme for Week 7 is inequality. The World Justice Project found that in Mexico, torture is one of the worst elements of the security and justice system.
This blog is part of 10 Weeks of Action: Demanding funding and protection for grassroots justice defenders by calling on our community to sign the #JusticeForAll petition. Each week, we will spotlight how access to justice is critical to the advancement of different thematic issues. The theme for Week 6 is Peace and Security. Why digital security for justice defenders is good for national security.
This blog is part of 10 Weeks of Action: Demanding funding and protection for grassroots justice defenders by calling on our community to sign the #JusticeForAll petition. Each week, we will spotlight how access to justice is critical to the advancement of different thematic issues. The theme for Week 6 is Peace and Security. The World Justice Project found that in Mexico, everyday legal problems are ubiquitous, and that most Mexicans do not turn to lawyers and courts to resolve their problems.
This blog is part of 10 Weeks of Action: Demanding funding and protection for grassroots justice defenders by calling on our community to sign the #JusticeForAll petition. Each week, we will spotlight how access to justice is critical to the advancement of different thematic issues. The theme for Week 2 is Women’s Rights. Denise Dora works for Themis, an organization made up of grassroots justice defenders working to address gender-based violence in Brazil through legal empowerment.
Following landmark events on justice co-hosted with the OECD and Open Government Partnership, Maaike de Langen — head of research for the Task Force on Justice — provides an update on the Task Force and how partners can work together to make 2019 a transformational year for justice for all.
Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale, shares options for altering human rights discourse to demand systemic global change.
Justice Defender Sukti Dhital shares her perspectives on reimagining justice: human rights through legal empowerment in anticipation of the Reimagining Justice conference taking place in NYC April 25-26, 2018.
