This project is intended to protect, encourage and support access to justice and human rights for poor and vulnerable people. It provides responses to the demands of marginalized people who have considered legislation as an essential tool to improve their situation and encourage reform, but who were unable to access lawyers and the formal justice system due to multiple barriers.
In rural areas of the DRC, people are hungry for justice and to enjoy their rights. The inadequacy of judicial institutions, their poor distribution and dysfunctional hearings, legal costs, ignorance of the law, and human rights violations make this justice a luxury reserved for a few city dwellers. This project is an urgent response to the lack of access to justice and human rights violations in rural areas of South Kivu.
Provide and improve legal services to indigent people in South-Kivu Province. Advocate for enabling institutional, policy and legal framework underpinning the rule of law, good governance and human rights in in South-Kivu Province. Build capacity of the justice sector stakeholders on fundamental human rights principles and their roles in promoting equitable access to justice for the populace.
Increased access to justice by the populace actors. Improvement in the legislative framework governing access to justice. Developing a cadre of paralegals to support the work of lawyers, assist at police stations, in prison and at court, and provide a range of primary justice services in the community. A critical mass of citizens sufficiently knowledgeable and empowered to effectively demand for information.
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