DÉCLARATION DE LAGOS SUR LA JUSTICE COMMUNAUTAIRE

The Lagos Declaration on Community Justice outlines a series of pledges by West African organisations to strengthen legal empowerment for the poor. Key commitments include training paralegals to address climate change and land rights, increasing the participation of women in legal work, and advocating for the formal recognition of community paralegals across the region. The participating organisations, forming the West Africa Legal Empowerment Network, aim to co-create participatory action research to tackle environmental and land justice challenges in both rural and urban settings.

• The West Africa Legal Empowerment Network committed to several collective goals, including the co-creation of a joint participatory action research project to address land and environmental justice challenges in both rural and urban West African contexts, and the promotion of national and regional recognition of community paralegals.
• Natural Justice (West Africa) specifically pledged to train paralegals to handle challenges related to climate change and land and environmental justice, while also seeking funds to support this work.
• Several organisations committed to gender-focused legal empowerment, including Lady Ellen Women’s Aid Foundation's goal to integrate more women into their work and FSH/UrbasEN's commitment to train a majority of women paralegals and focus on gender issues.
• Justice & Empowerment Initiatives committed to improving tenure security in West African cities by sharing findings from participatory action research and developing city-level documents on poverty and justice challenges.

APA

Natural Justice (2022). DÉCLARATION DE LAGOS SUR LA JUSTICE COMMUNAUTAIRE. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/fr_Lagos-Declaration-2022.docx-1.pdf

Chicago

Natural Justice. DÉCLARATION DE LAGOS SUR LA JUSTICE COMMUNAUTAIRE. 2022. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/fr_Lagos-Declaration-2022.docx-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Natural Justice |title=DÉCLARATION DE LAGOS SUR LA JUSTICE COMMUNAUTAIRE |date=25 March 2022 |url=https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/fr_Lagos-Declaration-2022.docx-1.pdf |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{naturaljustice2022dclaration, author = {{Natural Justice}}, title = {{DÉCLARATION DE LAGOS SUR LA JUSTICE COMMUNAUTAIRE}}, publisher = {Natural Justice}, year = {2022}, month = mar, url = {https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/fr_Lagos-Declaration-2022.docx-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }