The Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa and the South African (SA) Judiciary have adopted the Johannesburg Declaration, a landmark’s pledge aimed at transforming justice systems across the continent.
The declaration was unveiled at the Second High-Level Meeting of Women Judicial Leaders of Africa who gathered in Sandton, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province.
After three days of deliberations, African judicial leaders have put their signatures to the Johannesburg Declaration, a document SA’s Chief Justice Mandisa Maya calls “a blueprint for an inclusive and independent judiciary.
The declaration sets four key resolutions that Maya says, are shared values across the continent’s judiciary, gender parity, a Gender Based Violence framework, judicial independence, and economic justice, to name a few.
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