The Global Working Group on Justice for Children works to place children, and their human rights, at the core of the people-centred justice movement, in recognition that without equal access to justice for children, we cannot achieve equal access to justice for all as outlined in SDG 16.3.

The Global Working Group is convened by the Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures at the University of Strathclyde. It includes Child Friendly Justice European Network, Defence for Children International, ECPAT International, International Legal Foundation, the Legal Empowerment Fund, OECD, the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children, the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, Terre des hommes Lausanne Foundation, and UNICEF. The Global Working Group works in close collaboration with the Justice Action Coalition.

The work of the Global Working Group is informed by the Global Declaration on Advancing Child-Centred Justice and the forthcoming UN Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 27 on children’s rights to access to justice and to an effective remedy.