15th UN Crime Congress – Customary and Informal Justice Ancillary Meeting

The proposed ancillary meeting aims to share new insights on effective interface and coherence between the criminal justice system and informal and community-based justice that can deliver people-centered justice, reduce crime, and sustain peace.

​The main objectives of the side event will include:

• ​Share success stories on how improved interface and coherence between formal and customary, informal, and community-based justice actors contributes to access to justice, crime prevention, and peacebuilding
• ​Spotlight evidence-based policy innovation of relevance to Member States participating in the 15th UN Crime Congress
• ​Stimulate substantive action to advance people-centred justice through engagement with diverse pathways to justice
• ​Foster knowledge exchange and coalition-building amongst policymakers, practitioners, and researchers

​Speakers:

Guy Valère Badanaro, Africa Representative, Generation Justice Youth Network, Togo

​Jan Beagle, Director-General, IDLO

​Enrique Gil Botero, Secretary-General, Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Ibero-American Countries

​Georgia Diogo, Director, Ibero-American Network for International Legal Cooperation

​Ayad Al-Kidi, Executive Manager, Afaq Shababia Foundation, Yemen

​Rachel Odoi-Musoke, Senior Technical Advisor, Governance and Security Programme, Office of the President of Uganda

​Judith Pareno, Principal Secretary for the State Department for Justice, Human Rights and Constitutional Affairs of Kenya

​Owen Ripley, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Justice, Canada

​Maria Filomena Singh, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

​Rimpazandé Zackaria Soulga, Minister to the Dima, Kingdom of Boussouma, Burkina Faso