On Indicator 16.3.3 of SDG 16.3 – Measurements of Civil Justice
Posted: 5 November, 2021 Filed under: Menelik Solomon Mamo | Tags: access to justice, human rights law, justiciable problems, SDG 16, SDG framework, Sustainable Development Goals, Unsentenced detainees, victims of violence Leave a comment
Author: Menelik Solomon Mamo
Consultant and attorney, Ethiopia
Access to Justice, as a component of the rule of law, is comprised of a number of elements that at its core means that individuals and communities with legal needs know where to go for help, obtain the help they need, and move through a system that offers procedural, substantive, and expeditious justice. According to the World Justice Project’s (WJP) report, Measuring the Justice Gap, 5.1 billion people or approximately two-thirds of the world’s population are faced with at least one justice issue. It is evident that the majority of these justiciable matters that individuals face fall within the ambit of civil justice. The fact that individuals, especially those from developing countries, are surrounded by these problems while lacking access to justice to deal with them, form part of the dynamics that create and perpetuate poverty and inequality.
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