SDG #16 is to “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels”
Within SDG #16 are 12 targets, of which we here focus on Target 16.3:
Promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensure equal access to justice for all
Target 16.3 has three indicators:
Indicator 16.3.1: Proportion of victims of (a) physical, (b) psychological and/or (c) sexual violence in the previous 12 months who reported their victimization to competent authorities or other officially recognized conflict resolution mechanisms
Indicator 16.3.2: Unsentenced detainees as a proportion of overall prison population
Indicator 16.3.3: Proportion of the population who have experienced a dispute in the past two years and who accessed a formal or informal dispute resolution mechanism, by type of mechanism
An insufficient number of countries have supplied data to offer a global snapshot for the first indicator of this target. The number of countries reporting for the third indicator as of 2022 is dismal.
There are some notable absences from countries reporting data on the second indicator. But for those with data, the highest rates as of 2021 are in Gabon and Bangladesh, which have over 80% of their prison population unsentenced.