The Ibero-American Convention on Access to Justice: First Binding International Agreement on Access to Justice

This World Justice Forum event will discuss the Ibero-American Convention on Access to Justice and the first Binding international agreement on access to justice.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m. (CET)

Hilton Warsaw City, Poland

Hosted by Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries (COMJIB), Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, Grassroots Justice Network, Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ, Argentina), Ibero-American Alliance for Access to Justice, World Justice Project.

By invitation only.

Since 2021, the Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries has been working on a draft Ibero-American Convention on Access to Justice. The main objective of this initiative is to build a regional binding instrument to advance access to justice in the region and arrive at common agreements on what it needs to make it happen.

The importance of the Ibero-American region in this matter is that European and Latin American views on how to understand access to justice coexist, which enriches the initiative. In addition, Ibero-America has several decades of experience in public policies on access to justice, which has resulted in a wide range of soft law guidelines, which could now become mandatory.

Speakers

  • Florencia Abed Dickson, Co-Director, Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ)
  • Marco Fandiño, General Coordinator, Conference of Ministers of Justice of Ibero-American Countries
  • Ángel Salvador Ferrer, Researcher and Coordinator, Torture Prevention Program, DOCUMENTA
  • Fernando Marani, Program Director, Justice, Inclusion, and Equality, Pathfinders for Peaceful Just and Inclusive Societies
  • Laura Ospina, Senior Program Officer, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies
  • Alejandro Ponce, Executive Director, World Justice Project
  • Maria Fernanda Rodriguez, Senior Fellow at NYU Center on International Cooperation; Lead, Technical Secretariat, Ibero-American Alliance on Access to Justice

Learn more about the Ibero-American Alliance for Access to Justice.

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