June 27, 2025 ǀ 9:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m. (CEST)
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 (SDG16). 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-centered 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-centered 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-centered justice.
Event co-hosts on behalf of the Working Group on Customary and Informal Justice and SDG16+ include African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice; Cordaid; Folke Bernadotte Academy; Grassroots Justice Network; HiiL; Impunity Watch; International Development Law Organization; Just Future Alliance; Kituo Cha Sheria; Ministry of Justice and Community Services of Vanuatu; Namati; Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies; Public International Law & Policy Group; REFORMAR – Research for Mozambique; Restorative Justice Community Courts, Circuit Court of Cook County; The Tenure Facility; UN Development Programme; UNICEF; UNODC; UN Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions; UN Women; Vanuatu-Australia Policing and Justice Program; World Justice Project.
Speakers and moderators
- Hamzabet Aminatou, Chief of the Canton of Bambèye, Association of Traditional Chiefs of Niger
- Job Andy, Minister of Justice and Community Services, Vanuatu
- Abdulkarim Ba Abad, Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Yemen
- Pascale Bambara, Director of Access to Justice and Aid to Victims, Ministry of Justice, Burkina Faso
- Jan Beagle, Director-General, International Law Development Organization
- Elisa Samuel Boerekamp, High Court Judge and Director-General, Centre for Judicial and Legal Training, Mozambique
- Ana Cárdenas, Director of Justice Projects, Mexico, WJP
- Sokhna Dié Ka Dia, Director of Dakar Hub, Natural Justice
- Moussa Fofana, Regional Representative Sahel, HiiL
- Sheila Grace Formento, National Coordinator, Alternative Law Groups, the Philippines
- Issifou Ganou, Executive Secretary, National Land Observatory-Burkina Faso
- Aminatou Suleyman Hainikoye, Country Manager Niger, HiiL
- Milena Harizanova, Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF Refugee Response Office in Poland
- Martin Hoppe, Head of Governance, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
- Udo Jude Ilo, CEO, HiiL
- Gentil Kasongo, Programme Manager – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Impunity Watch
- Wambua Kituku, Executive Director, Kituo Cha Sheria
- Margaret Kulujian, Restorative Justice Community Court Coordinator, Office of the Chief Judge Circuit Court of Cook County
- Revai Makanje Aalbaek, Global Lead, Rule of Law, Justice and Security, UNDP
- Macarena Martinic, Coordinator of Empowerment and Public Participation, NGO FIMA
- Jacek Michałowski, Advisor to the Minister of Justice of Poland
- Monika Stanisława Płatek, Head of the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw
- Alejandro Ponce, Executive Director, World Justice Project
- Gisele Samvura, Rule of Law Officer Justice and Corrections Standing Capacity DPO/OROLSI/JCS, UNGSC Brindisi
- Roby Senderowitsch, Practice Manager for Public Administration, Governance Global Practice, World Bank
- Magdalena Tabernacka, Head of the Department of Comparative Public Administration, Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, University of Wrocław
