The ACIJLP organizes the 5th training course for female lawyers in Cairo on the project " Training and Empowering Young Women Lawyers to defend for Women's Rights"

Cairo, 20 March 2013 

 

The ACIJLP organizes the 5^th training course for female lawyers

in Cairo on the project " Training and Empowering Young Women Lawyers to defend for Women's Rights"

The Arab Center for Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession ACIJLP organizes the 5^th training course for female lawyers under the title "litigation skills in the field of women's rights issues," from 8^th – 10^th   April 2013, in Cairo.

This is the 5^th course in a series of training courses for women lawyers in the Egyptian governorates in the framework of the ACIJLP's project on "Training and Empowering Young Women Lawyers to Defend for Women's Rights". It will be organized with financial support from the self effort development program of the Canadian Embassy in Cairo.

20 female lawyers from Cairo Governorate will participate in this course. Many of the professors of the faculties of law, specialists of the international law on human rights and human rights activists will deliver training sessions in this course.

The course includes training on many topics related to litigation skills on issues of women's rights, women rights in international covenants and Egypt's position to ratify and integrate these covenants and women's rights in the national legislations (civil and political rights – economic, social and cultural rights) and include legal support and skills of litigation in the areas of ​​personal conditions and women's issues, as well as judicial support mechanisms for marginalized women, victims of violence and harassment, the legal and judicial support mechanisms for women in the Egyptian judicial system, advocacy and writing notes skills on women's issues and the skills required to use the international covenants on women's rights in national judiciary.

The training course also includes training on practical and professional topics such as women rights in international and national legislations, practical exercises and a personal conditions case study. It will also provide practical exercises and case study of violence and harassment, exercises and case study of the use of international conventions in national judiciary and advocacy and writing notes skills on women issues.

The training course will conclude its session by handing over the certificates of appreciation to female lawyers. The Training course will be attended by Mr Stephen Randall, first secretary for political affairs as a representative for Canada's ambassador in Cairo.

The training course is aiming at providing legal and information support, and the litigation skills support for women lawyers in the Egyptian governorates, in order to facilitate the provision of legal support for women and create a network of Egyptian women lawyers advocating women's rights in general and marginalized women in particular.