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Legal Department





Overview

As part of POWA’s commitment to ensuring abused women have access to their legal rights, we aim to provide quality, comprehensive women-centred legal services and engage in national and regional advocacy for the protection and promotion of women’s rights. We have a survivor-centred approach and strive for a safe and equal society intolerant of all forms of violence against women and girls.

As part of POWA’s commitment to ensuring abused women have access to their legal rights, we aim to provide quality, comprehensive women-centred legal services and engage in national and regional advocacy for the protection and promotion of women’s rights. We have a survivor-centred approach and strive for a safe and equal society intolerant of all forms of violence against women and girls.

THE POWA LEGAL DEPARTMENT’S CORE OBJECTIVES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

THE POWA LEGAL DEPARTMENT’S CORE OBJECTIVES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Ensuring that women’s human rights are recognised, protected, promoted, and fulfilled;
Holding the state and private bodies accountable for violating women’s rights;
Providing education through outreach sessions, talk shows and training on women’s rights and ways in which women can protect themselves;
Providing FREE legal advice on various gender-based violence matters, maintenance, divorce issues as well as joining as a friend of the court on pressing matters;
Providing court preparation and court support to survivors;
Collaborating with other strategic partners in realising women’s rights by assigning legal volunteers at various courts and police stations;
Empowering women by making it easy to navigate the justice system and understand how it works.
Ensuring that women’s human rights are recognised, protected, promoted, and fulfilled;
Holding the state and private bodies accountable for violating women’s rights;
Providing education through outreach sessions, talk shows and training on women’s rights and ways in which women can protect themselves;
Providing FREE legal advice on various gender-based violence matters, maintenance, divorce issues as well as joining as a friend of the court on pressing matters;
Providing court preparation and court support to survivors;
Collaborating with other strategic partners in realising women’s rights by assigning legal volunteers at various courts and police stations;
Empowering women by making it easy to navigate the justice system and understand how it works.