Inspire comprehensive, rights-based access to justice programming that recognizes women’s rights as indivisible and interdependent.
Discriminatory justice systems deny women and their families protection, accountability and
reparation—leading to impunity for perpetrators and a cyclical pattern of further violations.
Justice is a right in itself as well as an enabler of all other rights. Yet many women and girls—
particularly those who face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination—experience the
justice system not as a bastion for the vulnerable but rather as a preserve of a privileged few.
The effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is not conceivable
without access to justice. If the commitment of leaving no one behind is to be attained, justice
services must reach the excluded. When women’s rights are protected through effective justice
systems, pathways are created for inclusion, poverty reduction and sustainable peace.
This Practitioner’s Toolkit on Women’s Access to Justice Programming harnesses experiences,
lessons and promising practices to ensure non-discriminatory and inclusive justice systems. It
is meant to inform and inspire comprehensive, rights-based access to justice programming that
recognizes women’s rights as indivisible and interdependent. The Toolkit signals a determination
to explore new ways of doing business.
The United Nations Development Group’s core principles for integrated programming—leave
no one behind; human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment; sustainability and
resilience; and accountability—provide a timely catalyst for recalibrating the United Nations
system’s work on women’s access to justice.
We stand ready to work with Member States, civil society organizations, religious and traditional
leaders, the private sector and the rest of the United Nations system to ensure the effective
utilization of this Toolkit through technical cooperation at country, regional and global levels
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