SDG 16 Data Initiative Report 2022: Are we on track to meeting the 2030 agenda?

While it is phenomena, namely the adoption and relatively easy to track the adoption of the implementation of legal guarantees legal guarantees for this right, assessing for access to information—increasingly the degree to which these guarantees referred to globally as the right to conform to the standards of international information (RTI) in recognition of its law is far more complex. [...] The focus of this chapter is The halfway point of the 2030 Agenda is SDG 16.3, which articulates the need to rapidly approaching, and as the global ‘promote the rule of law at the national community looks ahead to this, it is and international levels and ensure equal important to take stock of the progress access to justice for all’ (United Nations 34 SDG16DI 2022 Global Report Crime reporting rat. [...] interconnectivity of the rule of law and These aspirations are closely linked to access to justice with the environmental improvements in the rule of law and justice components of the 2030 Agenda. [...] the ability of women and girls to seek recourse when subjected to violence’, pertaining to access The analysis provided in the WJP Rule of Law Index 2021 found that ‘94% of due to closures of courts and shelters and to justice countries in the Index experienced the enforcement of curfews, quarantines increased delays in administrative, civil, and confinement measures (Legal or criminal proceedings. [...] Conclusion Fulfilling the promises of the 2030 global justice community looks forward Agenda will require intentional action to to the mid-point of the 2030 Agenda and strengthen access to justice and the rule strategizes for the road ahead, improved of law.