World Justice Project Rule Of Law Index The rule of law is the cornerstone to improving public health, safeguarding participation, ensuring security, and fighting poverty,” said World Justice Project founder William Neukom in a statement. “Without the rule of law, medicines do not reach health facilities due to corruption, women in rural areas remain unaware of their rights, people are killed in criminal violence, and economic growth is stifled.” The index measured 66 countries on how well they performed in eight areas: limiting government powers, curbing corruption, ensuring order and security, protecting fundamental rights, government transparency, the strength of regulatory enforcement, access to civil justice and the effectiveness criminal justice.
Richer countries generally did better than poorer ones. Western Europe and North America scored highest. Sweden and Norway led the world in adhering to the rule of law. Among wealthy nations, Italy performed the worst. Police discrimination was found in most of the world’s wealthiest nations.The report gave the United States high marks overall, saying it “stands out for its well-functioning system of checks and balances and for its good results in guaranteeing civil liberties among its people, including the rights of association, opinion and expression, religion, and petition.”The U.S. civil justice system “remains inaccessible to disadvantaged groups,” even though it is independent and free of undue influence. “The gap between rich and poor individuals in terms of both actual use of and satisfaction with the civil courts system remains significant.”
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