The ACIJLP organizes the 1st training course for Female lawyers In Minia Governorate

 

Cairo, 24^th December 2012 

 

The ACIJLP organizes the 1^st training course for Female lawyers

 In Minia Governorate

 

The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession (ACIJLP) organizes 1st training course for Female lawyers under the title "litigation skills in the field of women's rights issues”. The activities of the training course will continue in the period from 25^th to 27^th December 2012 in Minya governorate in Upper Egypt.

This is the first training course, which comes within the framework of a series of training courses for female lawyers in the governorates of Egypt in the framework of the ACIJLP’s project on "Training and Empowering Female young lawyers for the defense of women's rights," which is organized with financial support from Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) in the Canadian Embassy in Cairo.

20 female lawyers in Minya Governorate will participate in the training course and many of the professors of the legal profession and specialists in the field of international law and human rights activists will conduct the training.

The ACIJLP calls upon the President and the Egyptian authorities to play its part in ensuring the physical integrity of the judges and their right to life, as well as taking legislative and administrative measures to ensure the independence judicial authority.

The training course includes many topics related to litigation skills on issues relating to women's rights, such as rights of women in international covenants and Egypt's stance concerning ratifying these covenants and putting them in the ladder of national legislation, women's rights in national legislation (civil and political rights – economic, social and cultural rights), legal support and skills of litigation in the field of ​​personal status and women's issues. In addition to the mechanisms of judicial support for marginalized women and victims of violence and harassment, the mechanisms of legal and judicial support for women in the Egyptian judicial system, skills of Plead and writing notes on women's cases and skills to use the international covenants on women's rights  before national judiciary.

The training course also includes training on practical and professional topics such as rights of women in international and national legislation, practical training and case study in issues of personal status, practical training and case study in issues of violence and harassment and training and case study of the use of international covenants before national judiciary.

The series of training course targeted providing legal support and information and supporting skills of litigation for female lawyers in the Egyptian governorates, in order to facilitate providing of legal support for women and establishing a network of Egyptian female lawyers who are able to defend women's rights in general and the marginalized women in particular.

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