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"Know How to Protect Your Rights!" under the financial support of the Commission on the Development of Democracy of the U.S. Embassy

Project timeline: June 2007 - June 2008

    Objectives:
  • To provide legal assistance and improve the level of legal knowledge of 10,000 women on their rights and mechanisms of protection.
  • To conduct information campaigns and hold two summer schools for 40 young people on women's rights, access to justice, and legislations regarding rights violations.
  • To create a more operative and efficient institutional base to solve the violations of women's rights by increasing awareness and improving of professionalism at organizations.
    Results:
  • Improved institutional base for solving women's rights issues and improved professionalism of organizations.
  • Distributed informational booklets and operated the confidential telephone hotline for the community and 10,000 young women to consult on women's rights violation issues and existing legal and organizational mechanisms.
  • Trained 40 youth on legal mechanisms protecting women's rights and recruited them as volunteers of NGO "Sana Sezim."
  • Gave 1,500 women psychological assistance on the confidential hotline.
  • Consulted 700 women for individual psychological consultations.
  • Consulted 700 women for individual legal consultations.