Promoting participation and human rights standards

Reforms of laws and systems to align with inclusive, participatory, protection and human rights standards. This includes:

• Transition to oral/accusatorial systems: Interventions to shift from inquisitorial systems (judges attempt to determine facts while representing the interests of the state) to oral or accusatorial systems (the two sides are presented to an independent judge)
• Participatory law reform: Engaging affected communities in the creation or reform of laws that affect them
• Review and reform of laws by justice system actors to meet international human rights standards: Changing laws so that they meet the standards in human rights treaties. For example, interventions that seek to implement the Convention of the Rights of the Child in national law.
• Review and reform of laws by justice system actors that protect or support access to justice for particular marginalised groups: Changing laws to specifically support the protection or access to social justice for marginalised groups. For example, changing laws that would allow juvenile migrants to access education in their host country or to protect girls from defilement