Elders Access to Justice for Women and Girls

STATE OF HOPE GATHERINGS

Mary Robinson and Hina Jilani are joined by experts from the justice sector and feminist and equality movements. Delivered in partnership with The Pathfinders, delegates explore how a cross-sectoral community of those advancing access to justice for women and girls can be built and what meaningful action must be taken to reduce the systemic discrimination of women. Initial broadcast March 2022.
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State of Hope Gatherings

Mary Robinson

Chair of The Elders, Former President of Ireland and Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Hina Jilani

Human Rights Advocate, Co-chair of the Taskforce on Justice and member of The Elders

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Access to Justice

The Elders continue to call for improved and sustainable access to justice for women and girls. Over 30 high-level individuals, including Elders Mary Robinson and Hina Jilani, alongside key voices and experts from government, private sector, philanthropy, youth movements and civil society, explore steps that need to be taken to build a world where women and girls have equal access to justice.

Mary Robinson

Chair of The Elders

Former President of Ireland

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

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Mary Robinson is a founding member of The Elders and Chair since 2018. The first woman President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson is a passionate champion of gender equality, multilateralism and climate justice.

Mary Robinson’s address considers our shared challenges, the power of collective action and solidarity to tackle the common existential threats we all face, including climate change, nuclear weapons and pandemics. Remembering the spirit in which Nelson Mandela launched The Elders, she emphasises how humanity can thrive when we act with a common purpose.

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Hina Jilani

Human Rights Advocate

Co-chair of the Taskforce on Justice

Member of The Elders

ABOUT

Hina Jilani is a pioneering lawyer and pro-democracy campaigner, a leading activist in Pakistan's women's movement, international champion of human rights, and a member of The Elders since 2013.

Ms Jilani founded Pakistan’s first all-woman law firm, legal aid centre and national Human Rights Commissions, and served as the UN Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders 2000-2008. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Taskforce on Justice.

Hina Jilani’s address discusses the issue of justice, and how we can counter the shrinking space for civil society and tackle the multi-faceted global crisis of injustice. If we are to counter this issue, democracy and media freedom must be respected and the powerful must be held to their words.

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