KPAC21: 'Leveraging Data to Address Asymmetries in Access to Justice' with Pathfinders

Lady justice wears a blindfold because justice should be available to everyone without regard to wealth, power, status, ethnicity, or gender. The reality in our world today is that over 5 billion people do not have meaningful access to justice and this global justice gap is highly correlated with asymmetries in wealth and power.There is an opportunity to curb asymmetric power through putting people at the center of justice systems and leveraging people-centered justice data. People-centered justice implies that we look at the problems people face, their contexts, needs, experiences and justice journeys – where and how, do people seek to resolve their justice problems, if at all. The discussion that took place in this session ranged from examining how data on the justice experience has grown significantly over the years, the interesting use of art as a barometer of where we are as a community or country with regard to justice systems, global indicators on progress towards providing access to justice, and the importance of implementing a people-centered approach also to national justice survey methodologies.

This session featured panelists Maaike de Langen (Program Lead Justice for All), Adv Jackie Nagtegaal (CEO at LAW FOR ALL), Dr. Tatyana Teplova (Head of Division for Policy Coherence on SDGs (PCSD) in the Public Governance Directorate at the OECD) and Dr. Daniel Gomez Gaviria (Deputy Director at the National Planning Department in Colombia).