Jun 27, 2025

Global Convening on Strengthening Customary and Informal Pathways to People-Centred Justice

Organized by the Working Group on Customary and Informal Justice and SDG16+, the event will showcase effective engagement between diverse justice stakeholders that enhances access to justice and the rule of law, sustains peace, and contributes to land and climate justice. It will also serve as the public debut of the Working Group’s global advocacy campaign on diverse pathways to people-centred justice.

June 27, 2025 ǀ 9:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (CEST) ǀ Hybrid
Lunch will be provided

Hilton Warsaw City, Poland

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Game-changing action is urgently needed to realize the promise of justice for all embodied in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 16). At the landmark World Justice Forum 2025 (June 23-26), the global convening proposed here will be co-organized by members of the global Working Group on Customary and Informal Justice and SDG16+ to drive policy change and marshal resources for a transformative shift in advancing people-centred justice. 

A broad array of allies, including ministerial delegations, judicial leaders, representatives of intergovernmental agencies, civil society and grassroots justice defenders, and customary and informal justice providers, will showcase effective engagement between diverse justice stakeholders that enhances access to justice and the rule of law, sustains peace, and contributes to land and climate justice, and unite behind a bold shared vision to deliver cost-effective, people-centred solutions at-scale. The side event will serve as the public debut of the Working Group’s global advocacy campaign on diverse pathways to people-centred justice.

Event co-hosts include African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice; Cordaid; HiiL; Kituo Cha Sheria; Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies; Public International Law & Policy Group; The Tenure Facility; UN Development Programme; UNICEF; UN Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions; UN Women; and the World Justice Project.

Speakers

To be confirmed

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