CSW70: Pathways Toward People-Centered Justice: Trajectories and Inequalities Faced by Women in Ibero-America

​The event will present the Ibero-American Alliance on Access to Justice’s new thematic report “Women’s Access to Justice in Ibero-America — Structural Gaps, Institutional Pathways, and People-Centered Responses.” The report provides a concise, evidence-based overview of the main barriers women face in accessing justice. It analyzes structural inequalities, due diligence gaps, violence, stereotypes, and barriers linked to care responsibilities, migration, ethnicity and disability, connecting this diagnosis to international standards and prevailing institutional practices in the region.

The event aims to present the Alliance’s new thematic report to a diverse audience of policymakers, justice operators, civil society actors, and international organizations. Through dissemination of its key findings, the event seeks to position Ibero-America within global debates on women’s access to justice, highlight structural gaps, and showcase good practices and innovative responses moving toward more people-centered justice systems, with a specific in-focus emphasis on women deprived of liberty. 

The event will promote substantive dialogue on the role of data in understanding real access-to-justice pathways and informing decision-making. Panels will address, on the one hand, the importance of high-quality, comparable, and disaggregated data, including regional evidence and country experience, to guide more effective public policies; and, on the other hand, the exchange of good practices in the Ibero-American region, such as specialized protocols addressing violence against women and institutional mechanisms to mainstream a gender perspective in justice systems. 

Finally, the open discussion and conclusions will provide space to reflect on how to deepen future research, strengthen information systems, and consolidate institutional commitments, identifying next steps toward a comprehensive, evidence-based understanding of women’s access to justice in Ibero-America.

​The event will in Spanish and English, and hybrid.

This event is organized by the Ibero-American Alliance for Access to Justice and co-sponsored by the Ibero-American Association of Public Prosecutors (AIAMP), the Inter-American Association of Public Defender Offices (AIDEF), the Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL), the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies (NYU-CIC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Justice Project (WJP).