Justice for Children, Justice for All: Agenda for Action towards the 2023 SDG Summit!
‘If we do not achieve justice for children, and if we are unable to involve them meaningfully in this process, then we will fail in the ambition of achieving justice for all by 2030.’
Justice for Children, Justice for All places children at the heart of a growing global movement for justice.
The Pathfinders for Justice’s international, multi-agency Working Group on Justice for Children has a strategic vision that actively puts children and children’s human rights at the centre of achieving justice for all, in line with SDG 16.3. It forms an essential part of our collective global challenge to achieve the sustainable development agenda.
The Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies Justice for Children, Justice for All Companion Briefing to the Justice in a Pandemic Series sets out the Agenda for Action for Justice for Children, featuring the strategic levels for change to achieve SDG16.3.
Justice for Children, Justice for All: Agenda for Action
With increased urgency and a clear vision for the future, this Justice for Children, Justice for All: Agenda for Action shapes the agenda to implement change across four key strategic levers needed to accelerate change and achieve SDG16.3 for children:
Building new types of partnerships, including intergenerational networks
Developing strategies for smarter financing; building the case to shift investment to children’s inclusion and well-being, and the political support for prevention
Using evidence and data to steer child-centred reforms, including disaggregated data, child friendly methodologies and child-centred views to drive change
Scaling up justice innovations, and applying imagination and safeguards for digital justice tools with children
Justice for Children, Justice for All: Applying Lessons from the Pandemic
Justice for Children, Justice for All: Applying Lessons from the Pandemic builds on the 10 Calls to Act to identify the common justice problems children face, both individually and structurally - including growing up in poverty, the lack of accountability of institutions to children, and children not being prioritised in administrative justice processes.
Additionally, the Applying Lessons from the Pandemic Paper sets out to answer ‘what does people-centred justice for children look like through the lens of what we have learned?’ - drawing on learning from COVID-19 and multi-dimensional global crises.
With a clear vision for the future, and based on learning as above, the Paper contextualises the key Agenda for Action for Justice for Children, to achieve Justice for All.
These Justice for Children, Justice for All publications have been created by the Justice for Children Core Working Group, which includes Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, Child Friendly Justice European Network, Terre des hommes, Office of the Special Representative to the Secretary General on Violence against Children & Defence for Children International and is led by the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde.