Proyecto ACCESO

Proyecto ACCESO is promoting the rule of law throughout the Americas.

The ACCESO team works with all the sectors in the administration of justice. We are judges, prosecutors, public defenders, legal educators, and journalists. We are building new systems for conflict resolution that are fair, efficient and transparent.

By training legal innovators, together we are srengthening the rule of law in our Hemisphere.

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Web Update from the Director

ACCESO Director’s Message – 2006

Dear Friends:

What a year! 2005 was filled with wonderful events for ACCESO as we expanded our product line and our programs throughout Latin America.

Please come in here and have a look at our current programs and events.

ACCESO Kids hits the street

The ACCESO Team is busy at work developing its new program to teach young people about justice and the rule of law.

ACCESO Kids is designed to be a popular children’s program that combines cartoons, puppets, music, coloring books, and a television program - all with current justice messages. The program teaches young children about the importance of the rule of law, the basics of their human and civil rights and the meaning of civil participation. Topics like child labor, domestic violence, the presumption of innocence, and street safety are covered.

Some of the work has already been debuted on Chilean television channel Megavision and its children’s program "Bakan". Based on the good response and the clear need for better educational programs designed to teach values and empower young people, the ACCESO Team has started production of an ACCESO Kids 22 minute television pilot.

The television shows provide young people with critical thinking, civic participation and problem-solving skills coupled with a commitment to fairness and the rule of law. The pilot covers the topic of intellectual property and its importance to sustainable development and consolidation of the rule of law. Young people must understand that downloading music and buying pirated books, software and movies help finance terrorist activities s’ coffers and undermine legitimate business and research and development. Intellectual property theft is theft.

Go here for some pictures of the workshop.

With its holistic approach to community interventions and by honoring self-determination and empowerment, the ACCESO Team has in the past few years been recognized for finding a common link among cultures and classes.

We have tested these concepts in the United States with theCalifornia Western School of Law, an independent non-profit law school in San Diego. The award-winning Youth Voices program was recognized by former U.S. Attorney-General Janet Reno and a number of U.S. Senators and government officials. The interactive program involved law students going to work with at-risk youth in community center, after-school programs and in detention facilities.

ACCESO Director James Cooper and the Center for Creative Problem Solving at California Western School of Law received an award at the Directors’ Guild of America on August 11, 1998 for Youth Voices and the curriculum has won award at the Women’s International Center as well. Youth Voices has been broadcast on television in South California, been featured at film festivals around the United States and been screened at the Directors’ Guild of America.
ACCESO Kids is self-funded by combining government consulting with marketing, licensing and production of a variety of innovative educational products for children.

We are working with law students from a variety of faculties of law throughout the region to promote ACCESO Kids. The concept is to encourage a community focus in the legal education curriculum of law schools and to promote pro bono work early in the careers of law students.