Sunday, August 24, 2008

Microjustice4All Website Launched

In addition to conversations about launching a second pilot after its year or so experience in Bolivia, ILA has launched a website for microjustice called Microjustice4All (www.microjustice4all.org). There is some basic information, but I would like to introduce the concept of microjustice (though I've blogged about it previously) from the horse's mouth:


What is Microjustice



In countries where a large part of the population lacks sufficient resources to subsist, access to a series of basic rights (like civil documentation and registration of property) often becomes a very difficult task; full of obstacles, lacking information and often financially inaccessible. In other words, for people in the most vulnerable groups it is especially difficult to exercise rights which are officially recognized and provided by the State.


What is Microjustice


The main concept of microjustice is empowering the poor through giving them access to their rights. Inspired by microfinance, microjustice is an international initiative that aims to facilitate access to the basic legal needs for the poorest sectors of the population and, in doing so, allowing them the same enjoyment of rights as the rest of the population. This initiative, as that of microservices in general, is based on the principles of solidarity and sustainability.


The UNDP recognises four main pillars of microjustice: access to right, property right, labour right and business right. Locally, many other kinds of rights (like educational rights, reproductive rights, rights of religion) can be relevant.


Why use the term Micro?


Micro does not refer to Justice itself, which is neither micro nor macro but rather an all encompassing term. The term Micro is chosen referring to:

  1. The minimum or basic needs of people for them to feel citizens in full enjoyment of their rights

  2. A service provided on an individual level, developing individualized solutions

  3. Emphasize the parallel that exists between Microjustice, microfinance and microinsurances and borrowing from them the term micro.

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