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Author (s):

Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and United Nations Development Programme

Date:

2008

Publication (if applicable):

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Abstract (if Available):

Making the Law Work for Everyone examines legal issues that will have a profound influence on human potential and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. As the Report highlights, the sources of legal exclusion are numerous and very often country-specific. However, four common threads stand out. First, legal empowerment is impossible when poor people are denied access to a well-functioning justice system. Second, most of the world?s poor lack effective property rights and the intrinsic economic power of their property remains untapped. Third, poor people, in particular women and children, suffer unsafe working conditions because their employers often operate outside the formal legal system. Fourth, poor people are denied economic opportunities as their property and businesses are not legally recognised. They cannot access credit, investment nor global and local markets. Making the Law Work for Everyone provides a needed and valuable voice for structural changes that will provide the poor a valuable tool as they work to pull themselves from the grips of poverty.

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