The Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies is working with an alliance of justice partners to explore how people-centred justice can help societies manage the fallout from the pandemic and build more just societies for the future.
The Justice for Children, Justice for All core team is developing a Briefing on Justice for Children amidst COVID, as part of the Pathfinders for Justice Justice in a Pandemic Briefing Series.
Together with our partners: the UN SRSGVAC, Defence for Children International, and Terre des hommes, the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde is leading the development of this Brief, with the help of a wide range of global experts forming the Technical Working Group.
This Brief will build on the Justice for Children Call to Action, which offered a new starting point to place children at the heart of an emerging global movement for justice; forwarding our collective global commitment to ensuring that all children live peaceful, just and inclusive lives and achieve their full potential.
- Prior to COVID, children were in large part left behind in the progress that had been made to realise the global goals for justice. Children were not consistently experiencing the justice in all its forms to which they have a right.
- Under COVID, this gap is widening. Children’s justice problems have intensified, and an increasing number of children are impacted. Under COVID, children have become yet more invisible in this effort.
- Keeping hold of the learning, the innovations, and the progress that are being madefor children under COVID will help us to realise the global goals despite these pressures, and will ensure these efforts include children, as agents and as rights holders, to our collective end goal.
The Brief will better equip decisionmakers with a summary and analysis of the evidence of how COVID is affecting children’s access to justice, and innovations to pay close attention to as we emerge from the crisis. The Key Messages will be pre-released at the OECD Virtual Global Roundtable on People-Centered Justice - 30 and 31 March 2021.
Please check back here for the full Briefing Paper shortly.
