15th UN Crime Congress - Customary and Informal Justice Ancillary Meeting
STRENGTHENING COHERENCE BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL JUSTICE ACTORS: New insights to advance people-centered justice
Co-convenors: African Centre of Excellence for Access to Justice; Alternative Law Groups; COMJIB; HiiL; International Development Law Organization; Open Society Africa; Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies; UN Development Programme; UN Office on Drugs and Crime; UN Peace Building and Peace Support Office; Vanuatu Australia Policing and Justice Program
Co-sponsors: Canada and Germany
Location: Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC) - Room 1D, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Overview
The proposed ancillary meeting aims to share new insights on effective interface and coherence between the criminal justice system and informal and community-based justice that can deliver people-centered justice, reduce crime, and sustain peace.
The main objectives of the side event will include:
Share success stories on how improved interface and coherence between formal and customary, informal, and community-based justice actors contributes to access to justice, crime prevention, and peacebuilding
Spotlight evidence-based policy innovation of relevance to Member States participating in the 15th UN Crime Congress
Stimulate substantive action to advance people-centred justice through engagement with diverse pathways to justice
Foster knowledge exchange and coalition-building amongst policymakers, practitioners, and researchers
Speakers:
Guy Valère Badanaro, Africa Representative, Generation Justice Youth Network, Togo
Hamza Assoumane Bayéré, Chief of Bambèye, Niger (tbc)
Jan Beagle, Director-General, IDLO (tbc)
Enrique Gil Botero, Secretary-General, Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries
Georgia Diogo, Director, Ibero-American Network for International Judicial Cooperation
Ayad Al-Kidi, Executive Manager, Afaq Shababia Foundation, Yemen
Rachel Odoi-Musoke, Chief Technical Advisor, Governance and Security Programme, Office of the President of Uganda
Judith Pareno, Principal Secretary for the State Department for Justice, Human Rights and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya
Owen Ripley, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice, Canada
Maria Filomena Singh, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines