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The United Nations General Assembly recently adopted the first international instrument dedicated to the provision of legal aid. Zaza Namoradze explains the significance of this landmark moment and what it means for legal aid guidelines worldwide.

Participate in an E-consultation hosted by UNDP and UNODC on early access to legal aid in criminal investigations and proceedings. Contributions are being accepted until January 31, 2013.

Without access to legal redress, people are unable to secure livelihoods, lose their income, and can fall deeper into poverty and despair. As the world works out how to combat poverty in the next generation of development goals, new strategies are needed. Justice is one of them.

Justice—a principle missing from the current MDGs—needs to be part of the next generation of development efforts.

As high-level talks continue in Bali, Paul Ladd, head of the post-2015 team at UNDP, analyzes results from the My World call for global development priorities and finds that people want help holding “their governments to account.” If a new agreement doesn’t emphasize good governance, he says, “it won’t have fully met their aspirations for a roadmap to a better future.”

“Challenging unfair power structures that entrench inequalities is critical for positive change in people’s lives,” says a new report from the Institute for Development Studies. The study emerges as high-level meetings on the Post-2015 development agenda continue in Bali.

Watch as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Macky Sall, Aminata Touré, and others make the compelling case for justice in the UN Millenium Development Goals.

From a simple trailer in Kabul, the Justice for All Organization provides legal counsel to over a dozen indigent Afghan women every day.

On June 6th, join the UN Millennium Campaign and the United Nations Development Programme for a livestreamed expert roundtable to discuss the High Level Panel Report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Learn more about the case for justice here .

Watch a video of Namati CEO Vivek Maru at The Economic and Legal Empowerment panel at the 2013 World Justice Forum, where panelists focused on modern methods of legal empowerment and highlighted innovative solutions to closing the gap between written law and law as experienced by the poor.