The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Profession (ACIJLP) organizes 1st training course for Female lawyers under the title “litigation skills in the field of women’s rights issues”. The activities of the training course will continue in the period from 25th to 27th December 2012 in Minya governorate in Upper Egypt.
This is the first training course, which comes within the framework of a series of training courses for female lawyers in the governorates of Egypt in the framework of the ACIJLP’s project on “Training and Empowering Female young lawyers for the defense of women’s rights,” which is organized with financial support from Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) in the Canadian Embassy in Cairo.
20 female lawyers in Minya Governorate will participate in the training course and many of the professors of the legal profession and specialists in the field of international law and human rights activists will conduct the training.
The ACIJLP calls upon the President and the Egyptian authorities to play its part in ensuring the physical integrity of the judges and their right to life, as well as taking legislative and administrative measures to ensure the independence judicial authority.
The training course includes many topics related to litigation skills on issues relating to women’s rights, such as rights of women in international covenants and Egypt’s stance concerning ratifying these covenants and putting them in the ladder of national legislation, women’s rights in national legislation (civil and political rights – economic, social and cultural rights), legal support and skills of litigation in the field of personal status and women’s issues. In addition to the mechanisms of judicial support for marginalized women and victims of violence and harassment, the mechanisms of legal and judicial support for women in the Egyptian judicial system, skills of Plead and writing notes on women’s cases and skills to use the international covenants on women’s rights before national judiciary.
The training course also includes training on practical and professional topics such as rights of women in international and national legislation, practical training and case study in issues of personal status, practical training and case study in issues of violence and harassment and training and case study of the use of international covenants before national judiciary.
The series of training course targeted providing legal support and information and supporting skills of litigation for female lawyers in the Egyptian governorates, in order to facilitate providing of legal support for women and establishing a network of Egyptian female lawyers who are able to defend women’s rights in general and the marginalized women in particular.
The archival Echoes of the session:
The Arab Center for the Independence of Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) organizes training course for female lawyers on “Activating the Conventions and Covenants on the Right of Women to Hold Public Office” on Tuesday in the period from 27th March till 29th March 2012 at 10:00 pm in Cairo.
The training course comes within the framework of the ACIJLP’s activities on the project “Support Women Involvement in Public Life” which will continue over two years, with financial support from the European Union, and includes a number of conferences, workshops, seminars, relevant research papers and training courses.
15 female lawyers and Egyptians law students will participate in the training course. The training course includes many topics such as the concept of human rights, its origin and development. It will also discusses all international Covenants and conventions on women’s issues, relevant national legislation, all the skills necessary to use international Covenants before national courts, identifying the international and national mechanisms available to protect women’s right to hold public offices and mechanisms available to overcome the obstacles facing women’s involvement in public life and identifying the most important mechanisms and legislation that must be developed in light of the changes caused by the 25th January Revolution in the Egyptian society.
The Arab Center for the Independence of Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) organizes a training course for female lawyers on “Activating the Conventions and Covenants on the Right of Women to Hold Public Office” in the period from 16th till 18th May 2012 in Cairo.
The training course comes within the framework of the ACIJLP’s activities on the project “Support Women Involvement in Public Life” which will continue over two years, with financial support from the European Union, and includes a number of conferences, workshops, seminars, relevant research papers and training courses.
15 female lawyers and Egyptians law students will participate in the training course. The training course includes many topics such as the concept of human rights, its origin and development. It will also discusses all international Covenants and conventions on women\’s issues, relevant national legislation, all the skills necessary to use international Covenants before national courts, identifying the international and national mechanisms available to protect women\’s right to hold public offices and mechanisms available to overcome the obstacles facing women\’s involvement in public life and identifying the most important mechanisms and legislation that must be developed in light of the changes caused by the 25th January Revolution in the Egyptian society. Many human rights activists, experts and Egyptian consultants will participate in the training course
The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession is a regional legal institution founded in 1997. It holds advisory status of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It works to provide legal support and legal consultations. It aims to enhance the values of the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession and develop legislation related to justice affairs in Arab countries. It works in accordance with the terms of reference Legal represented by the international legitimacy of human rights, international humanitarian law and customs in accordance with international law. Registered under No. 66 in the register of law firms at the Egyptian Bar Association.