Ibero-American Alliance

A Child-Centered Approach to Justice: Ibero-American Perspectives for a Regional Agenda

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current conditions of access to justice for children and adolescents in Ibero-America. It highlights existing challenges as well as good practices and proposes a roadmap to advance toward a child-centered justice system, as part of the commitment to leave no one behind within the framework of the 2030 Agenda.

The preparation of this report involved participants from the justice ecosystem across the region. In line with this collective effort, the report includes a detailed analysis of the drafting process of the Ibero-American Common Rules on Restorative Juvenile Criminal Justice, led by the main justice networks and regional bodies.

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2023 Report on Access to Justice in Ibero-America

In November 2023, the Ibero-American Alliance for Access to Justice launched its first Regional Progress Report on Access to Justice in Ibero-America.This report is also a joint deliverable of the Justice Action Coalition. The report is the first joint work carried out by the Alliance and presents a snapshot of the state of access to justice in Ibero-America and the efforts being made by actors in the justice ecosystem in the region to improve access to justice for all. It focuses on three areas:

• Data on the justice gap in the region, as well as innovation efforts in trying to close such gap;
• Progress on the development of a normative framework for a Regional Convention on Access to Justice
• Efforts being undertaken to leave no one behind and the role of community and customary justice in the region.

The report presents a compilation and analysis of data from regional, national, and local legal needs surveys, victimization studies, other relevant surveys and polls, organizational and administrative sources, platforms and datasets on open justice, civil society research and data, and other relevant studies. In doing so, the report promotes a common framework that highlights the need to invest and achieve equal access to justice for all.

Download the report (Available in English and Spanish)