Peace, justice, and strong institutions: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Access To Justice

Access to justice in the light of sustainable development: to the 30th anniversary of Ukraine's independence ed. by Yuri Prytyka and Iryna Izarova

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
30Th Anniversary ◽  
Thirtieth Anniversary

The thirtieth anniversary of Ukraine's independence is the best time to make conclusions and analyze what was achieved. This book is a collection of papers focused on various aspects of justice performing and the judiciary funcrioning in Ukraine. Jne common idea covers the whole book - ensuring equal access to justice for all and effective protection of the rights of those who seek it.

scholarly journals Higher education and sustainable development goal 16 in fragile and conflict-affected contexts

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-108
Author(s):  
Sansom Milton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Violence Reduction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
Liberal Peacebuilding

AbstractSustainable Development Goal 16 commits to ‘promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels’. While the concerns of SDG16 with violence reduction, rule of law, and governance are relevant to all societies, this paper focuses on fragile and conflict-affected countries, many of which have the hardest task in achieving SDG16. It analyses how higher education can contribute towards—or detract from—SDG16 through teaching, research, governance, and external leadership. It then analyses four dynamics influencing the agency of universities in fragile and conflict-affected contexts in engaging with SDG16: resource mobilisation and the public good; securitisation; academic freedom, insecurity, and politicisation; and tensions between demands for localisation and the universalising logics of liberal peacebuilding models and the SDGs.

Achieving Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals and Environmental Lessons for Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-269
Author(s):  
Sarah Tan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Development Goals

AbstractOn September 2015, countries around the world pledged to end poverty, protect the planet, and hit specific developmental targets within fifteen years at the signing of th|e United Nations 2030 Agenda. Within the 2030 Agenda are seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Goal 16 of the SDG contains twelve targets; of these, Target 16.3 is aimed at ensuring equal access to justice for all and Target 16.10 at ensuring public access to information. Malaysia as a signatory has pledged its commitment to fulfilling these SDGs. This paper's primary focus is on the fulfilment of Targets 16.3 and 16.10 within Malaysia's legal environmental framework. At present, there are provisions that ensure equal access to justice and those that ensure public access to information; however, it is suggested that these are insufficient, uncommon, and limited. This paper proposes an amendment to the Federal Constitution to include the express right to a clean environment, and demonstrates, through comparative study, the success similar provisions have had on the environmental protection laws of other countries such as India, the Philippines, South Africa, Nepal, the Netherlands, and Nigeria. It then considers what possible lessons Malaysia could glean from these national experiences in fulfilling its goals for Targets 16.3 and 16.10 before concluding with the proposition that Malaysia should consider an express constitutional right to a clean environment if she intends to meet her SDG goals.

scholarly journals Digital Technologies for Sustainable Development: Legal Challenges. Conference Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Valeriia Ermolaeva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Business Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
Conference Review

This is a conference review of Digital Law Conference dedicated to the legal challenges of digital technologies for sustainable development. It was held at the Department of Business Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia, Moscow, November 26, 2020). The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) officially known as Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are 17 goals for international cooperation recognized by the UN. The purpose of this conference was to share, learn, and discuss main approaches to legal regulation of "end-to-end" digital technologies in Russia and elsewhere in the world, taking into account that implementation of the leading technologies should contribute to achieving SDGs. There has been considered the legal issues of the application of various digital technologies through the prism of achieving SDGs: the promotion of sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth and digital technologies; the legal aspects of democratization of access to financial markets and tokenization of economy; the legal issues of implementation of the Internet of Things; the legal support for sustainable industrialization and innovation using Artificial Intelligence and other digital technologies; the use of digital technologies to promote an open society for sustainable development, access to justice for everybody, and so on. The contribution of digital technologies for sustainable development was well-illustrated, and many actionable solutions were proposed.

The Quest for Sustainable Development in the Context of Insecurity: Some Critical Reflections

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Dzimiri ◽  
Richard Obinna Iroanya ◽  
Rachidi Molapo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Analytical Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
African Context ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Paradigm

This paper considers the possibility of realizing “peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development; providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels specifically in Africa”. This is goal 16 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As configured, peace, security and development are treated as integral subsets of sustainable development. The paper contends that this goal holds the key to the realization of other SDGs in the African context. In examining the achievability of this goal, the concept and essence of development in general and sustainabledevelopment in particular were examined. The paper argues that the well-being of a state and its people is the primary essence of development. Furthermore, development is considered as connoting a state’s capacity to provide enabling conditions such as peace and freedom that sustain general well-being. Development is also a characteristic of a state-system which cannot sustain itself in the absence of peace, security and democracy. The approach and method followed in the paper are largely qualitative and analytical. Data from documentary analysis were relied upon to develop a conceptual framework of peace, security, democracy and development. Findings show that the evolvement of sustainable development remains difficult in Africa because Africa’s development trajectory remains largely disconnected and disjointed. For Africa to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs), serious peace and security challenges must be effectively addressed. Broad suggestions to ensure that well-articulated development paradigm in which peace, security, democracy and policy stability are strategically positioned, linked and integrated to the degree that they provide mutual support and reinforcement to one another are made.

Localizing Human Rights SDGs: Ghana in context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar S. Abdellatif
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
West African ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Agenda 2030

In September 2015, Ghana along all UN member states endorsed the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the cardinal agenda towards achieving a prosperous global future. The SDGs are strongly interdependent, making progress in all goals essential for a country’s achievement of sustainable development. While Ghana and other West African nations have exhibited significant economic and democratic development post-independence. The judiciary system and related legal frameworks, as well as the lack of rule law and political will for safeguarding the human rights of its citizens, falls short of considering violations against minorities. Will Ghana be able to localize human rights related SDGs, given that West African governments historically tended to promote internal security and stability at the expense of universal human rights? This paper focuses on evaluating the commitments made by Ghana towards achieving Agenda 2030, with a particular focus on the SDGs 10 and 16 relating to the promotion of reduced inequalities, peace, justice and accountable institutions. Moreover, this paper also analyzes legal instruments and state laws put in place post Ghana’s democratization in 1992 for the purpose of preventing discrimination and human rights violations in the nation. The article aims to highlight how Ghana’s post-independence political experience, the lack of rule of law, flaws in the judiciary system, and the weak public access to justice are obstacles to its effective localization of human rights SGDs. Those obstacles to Ghana’s compliance with SDGs 10 and 16 are outlined in this paper through a consideration of human rights violations faced by the Ghanaian Muslim and HIV minorities, poor prison conditions, limited public access to justice and the country’s failure to commit to international treaties on human rights. Keywords: Ghana, human rights, rule of law, security, Agenda 2030

scholarly journals Sustainable Development through the Right to Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao He
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Transfer System ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Special Fund ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
The Right

Access to justice is an irreplaceable complementary right. Without enforcement, environmental law would be ‘toothless’ in practice. Recently, China has made some significant progress in protecting the relevant parties’ right to access to justice in environmental matters. However, there are still some problems and challenges in the protection of this right in theory and in practice. To effectively realize this right, it is necessary to analyze the present situations and problems of the right in China from a legal perspective. This is done by introducing and analyzing the laws, regulations, policies, and practice concerning the right to access to justice in environmental matters in China. Specifically, this paper discusses the present situations of this right from several aspects. Based thereon, a brief problems analysis will be made. Some possible suggestions on how to better protect the right in China will be proposed from the perspectives of engaging, effectiveness and efficiency. These suggestions include empowering various parties with more capacity and possibilities; establishing a legal aid system and special fund; improving the exemption system and attorney fee transfer system; establishing a pre-litigation examination mechanism; and stimulating various parties’ potential roles.

scholarly journals Access to a genuinely independent and impartial trial: a review of the sixteenth sustainability goal completeness

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Rostyslav Sopilnyk ◽  
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Juliusz Piwowarski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Judicial Independence ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Clear Link ◽  
New Energy

The sixteenth sustainability goal is about equality in access to justice. However, according to some events in Eastern Europe, access is insufficient. The court must be genuinely independent and impartial. In this regard, we decided to find arguments in favour of expanding the sixteenth sustainability goal. A review of the sources and a theoretical study indicated a clear link between judicial independence and sustainable development. We used the method of doctrinal research. ECtHR cases have become our data for qualitative analysis. We have reaffirmed that judicial independence is the condition of the rule of law. It means conduction of proceedings without any pressure or interference on a judge, particularly from other branches of government. We argue that the entire independence of the judiciary appears on the background of the subjective and objective independence of the judge. In addition, this study demonstrates that judicial independence is a condition for sustainable development. It is associated with public trust and public confidence in the reality of such independence. In the example of equality of parties, we pointed out that there is no need to detail the sixteenth goal further. With our study, we wish to breathe new energy into the sixteenth goal of sustainable development

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