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What is more essential to human dignity than justice? Most countries have signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet the gap between those principles and people’s lived experience keeps widening. The World Justice Project reports that the rule of law has declined globally for the ninth year in a row, with improper government influence undermining civil and criminal justice and protections for the accused steadily eroding. Amnesty International points to a broad global decline in fair trial rights. Can these trends be reversed? British lawyer and activist Alexander McLean believes they can. Almost two decades ago he founded Justice Defenders in Kenya, and today the organization works across East Africa and the United States. In this conversation with the Tällberg Foundation, he shares his vision for a more just world — and how to get there.