New global report calls for urgent measures to close justice gap for women

The High-level Group on Justice for Women (HLG), comprising of justice, human rights and gender experts from different parts of the world, launched a pathbreaking global report on Justice for Women on 13 March, at a side event on the margins of the 63rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York.

The report was developed as part of ongoing work of the Task Force on Justice, established by the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. It documents and explains the justice gap for women and girls; makes the case for investment in the justice sector in a gender-responsive manner; proposes strategies for scaling up existing interventions; and articulates an eight-point call to action to close the existing gender justice gap.

The event was hosted by the co-conveners of the High-level Group—UN Women, the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), The World Bank and the Task Force on Justice.

“From women held without fair trial, to women toiling in their homes, in factories, in the fields, the gap between what women demand and need, and what they receive is enormous,” said IDLO’s Director-General Irene Khan.

The Justice for Women report will feed into the High-level Political Forum, the main United Nations platform for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, convening in July 2019.

“UN Women is up to the task and is ready to walk through this journey with you,” said Åsa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. “Together, we will make a significant difference and come 2020, 2025 and 2030, we shall have more achievements and results to share during these periodic reviews of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”.

Read and download the report: Justice for Women 

Original source: UN Women 
Published on 15 March 2019