Ibero-American Perspectives on Justice: Building a Child-Centered Regional Agenda

June 4, 2025 | 10:30–11:30 a.m. (CET) | In-Person
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Organized by Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies and the Ibero-American for Access to Justice

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The main objective of the event will be to present and launch the new report, prepared by members of the Alliance between 2024 and 2025. The roundtable will focus on discussing its findings as well as highlighting the progress and challenges in the region.

This roundtable expert dialogue will provide insights on progress, commitments and innovations, which provides a general framework on the state of access to justice for children and adolescents in Ibero-America. The discussion seeks to provide visibility to the game-changing practices that are being carried out, as well as the main challenges the region faces on the matter.

Lastly the panel discussion will highlight the importance of regional partnerships, approaches and agendas, and how these collaborative efforts can work towards the building of a child-centered justice regional agenda.

Moderator

Laura Ospina, Senior Program Officer; Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies; NYU Center on International Cooperation.

Speakers

• Maria Fernanda Rodriguez, Technical Lead of the Ibero- American Alliance on Access to Justice, Senior Fellow at the NYU Center on International Cooperation, and former Vice-Minister of Justice of Argentina.
• Patricia Bermejo, Vice-President of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law (Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Procesal–IIDP), Argentina.
• Ester Valenzuela Rivera, Researcher and Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, School of Law, Chile.
• Fernanda da Silva Rodrigues Fernandes, Coordinator of the Inter-American Public Defenders Association (Asociación Interamericana de Defensorías Públicas–AIDEF) and President of the ANADEP (National Association of Public Defenders of Brazil).
• Jordi Llopart, Senior Advisor to the Administrator, Strategic Alliances. Executive Office, United Nations Development Programme