Study: Justice functions for 5.1 billion people, poor people get worse.

But guaranteeing universal access to basic justice can save the global economy billions of dollars annually, until lost revenues and stress-related diseases due to the demand for legal compensation can cost countries up to 3% of annual GDP, according to a report published today by the Justice Force report.

The report says that of the 5.1 billion people who do not have significant access to justice, 1.5 billion or a fifth of the world have remained with problems of justice that they cannot solve, whether it involves property conflict, debt or being a victim of a crime, translates from The Guardian, Periscope.

253 million people live in extreme conditions of injustice and are deprived of any significant legal protection: 40 million people are modern slaves, 12 million are without a state, and 200 million live in countries or communities where the degree of uncertainty is so high that they cannot seek justice, the team has found.

Lack of legal identity or work documents could also lead to the deprivation of justice, or it may result simply in living in a society where justice rights are simply denied, David Steven, who serves in the secretariat of this Task Force, has said.

“Justice is public service that is not being treated as public service, and that is true in the United Kingdom and even more true in other countries,” added further.

The study found that injustice affects all countries, but women, children and people who are challenged, ethnic minority communities and the poor mostly./Periscopi