Financing climate action rightfully took center stage at COP27 as countries after decades of advocacy agree to set up a historic loss and damage fund — By Roshni Menon, Senior Program Officer, Pathfinders (CIC NYU) This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheik took place at a time of conflict, a continuing global health pandemic, soaring inflation that have exacerbated concerns over food and energy security, and an increasingly precarious debt sustainability situation…

South Africa’s Centre for Child Law is a pioneer in conducting strategic litigation to strengthen child rights. Based at the Law Faculty at the University of Pretoria the Centre has instituted, or been instrumental to the success of, landmark cases including the banning of corporal punishment, decriminalization of consensual sex…

Stakeholders gather to understand how housing can help build equitable and inclusive cities in Sierra Leone — By Paula Sevilla Núñez, Program Officer, Pathfinders & Ansumana Tarawally, Research Officer, Sierra Leone Urban Research Center (SLURC) Annemarie was just notified by her landlord that her rent would double next month. A single parent, she is already struggling to save enough money to afford school fees, uniforms, and books…

Welcome to your monthly roundup of 16+ news and views from the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. If you find this newsletter useful, please pass it on to others working on the SDG16+ targets for peace, justice and inclusion. Subscribe or unsubscribe here — and check out the sdg16.plus website. — 1. The latest on SDG16+ Pathfinders at HLPF 2022 On July 12, the Pathfinders hosted an in-person reception with friends and colleagues from permanent missions and partner organizations after over two years of COVID restrictions. …

By Bojan Francuz Peace in Our Cities, a network of 22 cities and 30 community-based and international partners, is an initiative co-facilitated by Pathfinders’ Halving Global Violence Grand Challenge, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security. As a pioneering platform championing…

Welcome to your monthly roundup of 16+ news and views from the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. If you find this newsletter useful, please pass it on to others working on the SDG16+ targets for peace, justice and inclusion. Subscribe or unsubscribe here. Visit our website: sdg16.plus …

By Vino Lucero, Young Justice Leader From 30 May to 3 June, those working for justice, including justice leaders, civil servants, activists, lawyers, innovators, community providers, and academics, met in the Hague and online for the World Justice Forum. …

The movement for people-centered justice was energized at the World Justice Forum, the largest global event on justice this year, which was held in The Hague and online from 30 May to 3 June. For the first time after the pandemic, justice leaders, civil servants, activists, lawyers, innovators, community justice…

By Adrian Di Giovanni and Georgina Cundill-Kemp Around the world people are calling for justice: gender justice, racial justice, intergenerational justice, and increasingly urgent: climate justice. What good are our justice systems if they do not respond to this call? The Justice for All report sets out an agenda for…