 | Justice for the Poor is a global research and development program aimed at informing, designing and supporting pro-poor approaches to justice reform. It is an approach to justice reform which sees justice from the perspective of the poor and marginalized, is grounded in social and cultural contexts, recognizes the importance of demand in building equitable justice systems, understands justice as a cross-sectoral issue. |
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Mapping Indigenous Communal Lands:
A Review of the Literature from a Cambodian Perspective
Daniel Adler, Jeremy Ironside and Mean Ratanak
 | The Cambodian Land Law (2001) provides indigenous ethnic minority groups with a right to register their traditional residential and agricultural lands under communal title. To date, however, this right has remained unrealized. Read More |
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Customary Justice and Legal Pluralism in Post-Conflict and Fragile Societies: An International Workshop, November 17-18, 2009  | The United States Institute of Peace, George Washington University (Peace Studies & Culture in Global Affairs Program) and the World Bank Justice for the Poor Program will host an upcoming workshop addressing issues surrounding customary justice and legal pluralism in post-conflict and fragile states. For more information, including an official invitation and a draft agenda, please click here. |
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Justice and Development Working Paper Series 2009 Volume 2
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Issue 1: Justice Versus Peace in Northern Kenya by Tanja Chopra
Issue 2: Justice without the Rule of Law? The Challenge of Rights-Based Industrial Relations in Contemporary Cambodia by Daniel Adler and Michael Woolcock Read MoreÂ
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Engaging Law in Context Symposium
June 4-5, 2009, Jakarta, Indonesia Â | On June 4 and 5 2009, more than 120 people attended a World Bank Justice for the Poor Symposium, Engaging Law in Context, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Read More |
For questions or feedback regarding the Justice for the Poor program, please contact us at j4p@worldbank.org. |  | 
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