JUST SOCIETY webinar series: Challenges to equal access to justice and welfare rights in the Global South

JUST SOCIETY webinar series: Challenges to equal access to justice and welfare rights in the Global South

JUST SOCIETY is organising its second webinar series in which we dive into administrative, political and legal challenges to equal access to justice and welfare rights across our four partner countries in the Global South: Brazil, Georgia, India sand South Africa.

The key purpose of the webinars is to establish a cross-continental dialogue and highlight comparative perspectives on equal access to justice and welfare rights in societies today. The webinars will feature three presentations by researchers from JUST SOCIETY’s partner countries. In subsequent panel discussions, we discuss similarities and dissimilarities across countries and regions and consider how existing challenges to equal access to justice and welfare rights can be alleviated

JUST SOCIETY’s next webinar will be on:

Administrative barriers to equal access to justice and welfare rights

The webinar will feature three presentations:

• “Political Neutrality in the Georgian Civil Service?” by Archil Abashidze, Associate Professor of Politics and Public Administration, Ilia State University, Georgia
• “Discretion and Public Policy Implementation in the Health System of Campos Dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State” by Roberto Dutra, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Brazil
• “Young people’s experiences of accessing services in their transition from school to work in South Africa” by Lauren Graham, Senior Researcher and Director of the Centre for Social Development in Africa at University of Johannesburg, South Africa

This webinar explores specific ways in which the structure of public administration and civil servants’ strategies can serve as barriers to equal access to justice and welfare rights. The three presentations will discuss civil servants’ political neutrality in Georgia, health professionals’ policy implementation strategies in Brazil as well as institutional fragmentation in youth employment programmes in South Africa. In a panel discussion, the webinar will compare perspectives from the three countries and consider how to alleviate the identified administrative barriers to equal access to justice and welfare rights.

The webinar will be chaired by Louise Munkholm, Assistant Professor at the Danish Centre for Welfare Studies (DaWS), Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Southern Denmark. 

Register here and find much more information about the webinars here.