"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
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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.
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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.