Bridging Systemic Gaps: Advancing Justice for all Women and Girls (CSW70 Side Event).

Interactive dialogue on CSW 70 priority theme organized by UN Women: Access to justice, eliminating discriminatory laws, and addressing other structural barriers.

The interactive dialogue will examine the challenges outlined in the Secretary-General's report across formal and informal justice systems, including discriminatory laws and other structural barriers that restrict women's and girls' access to justice. These gaps are most visible in women's and girls' lived experiences, which reveal persistent discriminatory laws, norms, and practical obstacles that increase risks of violence and revictimization.

Objectives:

Identify and analyze systemic barriers to women's and girls' access to justice, drawing upon women's and girls' lived experiences, including discriminatory legal frameworks, under-resourced institutions, and harmful social norms, with a view to understanding persistent gaps.
Showcase practical, evidence-based and survivor-centred solutions to strengthen justice sector responses, particularly in the area of family law, gender-based violence, employment and labour law, among others,and advance inclusive, transformative access to justice across the life cycle.
Mobilize all stakeholders, including Member States, UN entities, feminist movements and civil society actors, youth leadership and other partners to prioritize, fund, and collaborate on efforts that advance access to justice and that align with international commitments, emphasizing investment in and support to reforms that are evidence-based, grounded in the lived experience of women and girls, leveraging UN Women as a global knowledge hub and convenor on the issue of access to justice.View less

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