Empowering women: an assessment of legal aid under Ecuador's judicial reform project
Rodriguez, Marcela
Judicial systems perform an important function for individuals and societies by resolving conflicts within an agreed normative framework. They directly help individuals overcome obstacles to their private endeavors and access their legally guaranteed human, political, and civil rights. The benefits of a well- functioning system are far more than individual. By providing a peaceful, authoritative means for resolving disputes-in predictable accordance with widely recognized norms-such systems should reduce conflicts, discourage recourse to more violent means of resolving them, encourage compliance with legally prescribed behaviors, and enhance citizen security. It has also been argued that well-functioning systems provide important inputs to the development and sustainability of legitimate democratic governance, market-based economic growth, and broad-based equitable participation in the benefits of both.
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