Legal Assistance Organization for Human Rights
Category: Local Organization
Target groups: Women and children
Main field: Social, economic, and legal empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
Target groups: Women and children
Main field: Social, economic, and legal empowerment; health awareness; education
Setting: Urban and rural
The organization works on the following:
- Protecting people's rights, especially women and children (alimony, custody, divorce, marriage, khul', appeals to the concerned party, etc.)
- Providing legal assistance to victims of human rights violations through the submission of complaints and presenting complaints before various courts
- Monitoring problems and priorities in light of the complaints received
- Appealing to officials and executives and trying to involve them to solve problems and obstacles
Main Activity:
Training courses and legal assistance
Ongoing projects
Legal assistance and case centerPast projects
- Legal awareness project (women's financial rights)
- Training young lawyers and capacity building in civil law and criminal law
- Raising women's awareness of the constitution and municipalities project
- Democracy: From Rural Areas to the City Project. The project consists of committees, such as the education committee and health committees, which work educating teachers
- A guide to promoting participation in public life
- Promoting the role of NGOs, especially in raising awareness of citizenship and the constitution
- Computer skills training courses
- Raising awareness of the values of effective citizenship and the acceptance others
- ToT on the values of citizenship, human rights, democracy, and the acceptance others