Models for Sustainable Legal Aid: Experiences from NGO’s in Five Lower Income Countries

Barendrecht, Maurits

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“…Given these advantages, many organisations (e.g., Development agencies, public interest law firms, legal clinics attached to academic institutions, non-governmental organisations (hereinafter NGOs) and community-based organisations) dealing with legal services have developed strategies to assist, especially the poor and disadvantaged, and have been executing awareness-building programs (Cotula and Mathieu, 2008). Among the legal service organisations, NGOs are playing a more proactive role than other organisations (Bordat and Kouzzi, 2009;Barendrecht, 2011;Harrold, 2007). Therefore, NGOs have been implementing awareness-building programs on gender justice, throughout the world, to empower poor and disadvantaged people and save them from injustice.…”

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Do legal empowerment activities of NGOs reduce gender-based violence in Bangladesh?

Panday

Rabbani

2017

IJGSDS

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This article explores the role of NGOs' legal aid activities in empowering women and reducing gender-based violence in Bangladesh. For collecting primary data, a field survey was conducted in Bangladesh, where come to work (CTW) provides legal aid services. It implements a number of activities. The list of its activities include conducting human right education sessions, supporting community people to establish a people's organisation, sensitisation of the elite people and establishing a network with national level organisations to deal with the gender 'cases' at courts. As an outcome of these activities, women have become more knowledgeable about their legal rights. Moreover, people's organisations have been founded overseeing informal justice, for making sure that women are receiving proper justice. This paper reveals that a comprehensive approach developed by the NGOs for empowering women legally has been successful in reducing gender-based violence in a patriarchal society of Bangladesh.

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Do legal empowerment activities of NGOs reduce gender-based violence in Bangladesh?

Panday

Rabbani

2017

IJGSDS

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The access to justice gap and the rule of law crisis in Poland

Winczorek

Muszyński

2022

Zeitschrift Für Rechtssoziologie

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Summary The article discusses selected problems of access to justice in Poland as an important context for the rule of law crisis since 2015. The difficulties in formally addressing justiciable problems were illustrated by the findings of empirical studies conducted in 2015 and 2018. The article argues that having experienced obstacles in addressing their justiciable issues, Polish society has developed what can be termed a highly rational stance towards the legal system, which can be expected to contribute to its reluctance to actively oppose the sweeping reforms of the judiciary introduced by populists. Understanding the effects of inaccessibility of justice combined with insufficient options to resolve justiciable problems outside of the law and legal institutions is an important addition to the prevailing politics- and culture-centred approaches to understanding of the long-standing multifaceted conflict around the judiciary in Poland.

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Models for Sustainable Legal Aid: Experiences from NGO’s in Five Lower Income Countries

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Do legal empowerment activities of NGOs reduce gender-based violence in Bangladesh?

Do legal empowerment activities of NGOs reduce gender-based violence in Bangladesh?

The access to justice gap and the rule of law crisis in Poland

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