The South Asia Women’s Fund is offering the Legal Fellowship Programme to promotewomen’s rights through a feminist legal praxis, enabling a creation of a legal resource pool to support and work for women survivors of violations.
The fellowship programme is accepting applications from five countries: Bangladesh,India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The Fellowship Programme will build capacities of individual women lawyers in feminist legal practice; to undertake work at the primary level, and provide them the ability to be a resource for the communities of women seeking to access their human rights and redress the violations of the same. The programme will strengthen access to justice for women in the region, by promoting feminist legal advocacy, through enhancing feminist legal practice and intervention by and for women in the region.
The specific objectives of the programme are as follows:
- To enable access to justice by strengthening the human resource pool within communities, including support to individuals who can facilitate these processes.
- To build a collective voice to advocate claims and justice
- To promote learning and exchange between women lawyers in South Asia, mainly between the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, by providing support to a small nucleus of women lawyers, working in primary courts.
- To enhance and promote the shared understanding of law and legislation pertaining to women’s human rights in the region and its importance in promoting women’s rights and social justice.
- To build collaborative spaces with feminist lawyers who promote women’s human rights and social justice in the region.
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