Rights in Action: Access to Justice for Women in Argentina
Through a 12-month program ELA addresses the two most urgent problems, as identified by ELA and following the recommendations of the CEDAW Committee: violence against women and access to reproductive rights, including legal abortion. To this purpose, ELA aims to: Promote a network of individual lawyers, practitioners, organizations and NGOs with expertise on women's rights to provide legal assistance to women facing rights violations; Establish a webpage with available legal resources; Establish a fund to support individual lawyers or NGOs who are assisting particularly difficult individual cases through small sub-grants with urgent need for support; Create a public database of good practices, successful experiences and lessons learned in defending women's rights; Promote dialogue between individual lawyers, practitioners, organizations and NGOs with expertise on women's rights, and public authorities and the Judiciary; Through a media strategy, the program contributes to the cultural transformation needed t
Facebook / ELA - Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Genero. The enforced legal framework in Argentina contains a generous catalogue of rights, including ...