Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice is a comprehensive survey of women's access to justice across the globe, which outlines ten recommendations to make justice systems work for women, and overcome the paradox that while huge improvements have been made in the legal position of women over the last century, there is still a dramatic lag in translating that into equality and justice. More than half of working women in the world, 600 million, are trapped in insecure jobs without legal protection, according to the first flagship report of the new agency UN Women. A similar number do not have even basic protection against domestic violence, it finds, while sexual assault has become a hallmark of modern conflict. Michelle Bachelet, the executive director of UN Women, said the document showed that many millions of women had no access to justice. The ten recommendations are: -
1. Support women’s legal organizations
2. Support one-stop shops and specialized services to reduce attrition in the justice chain
3. Implement gender-sensitive law reform
4. Use quotas to boost the number of women legislators
5. Put women on the front line of law enforcement
6. Train judges and monitor decisions
7. Increase women’s access to courts and truth commissions in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
8. Implement gender-responsive reparations programmes
9. Invest in women’s access to justice
10. Put gender equality at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals
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