• Four billion people are excluded from the rule of law
• First Pillar: Access to Justice and the Rule of Law
• Second Pillar: Property Rights
• Third Pillar: Labour Rights
• Fourth Pillar: Business Rights
• Questions and Answers: Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor

Four billion people are excluded from the rule of law

Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor makes a global call to make legal empowerment a key pillar of the anti-poverty agenda

New York, 3rd June 2008 - Four billion people — the majority of people living on our planet — are robbed of the chance to build a better life for themselves because they are excluded from the rule of law. That's according to a new report launched in New York today by the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, as it called on governments, international institutions and civil society to put legal empowerment front and centre in the fight against global poverty. [...]