Promoting Women's Right and Legal Aid Programme

Result: Enable to protect socio economic and political rights of the marginal women belongs to Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli & Tuticorin Districts Partnership: Misereor, Germany. Area of operation: Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli & Tuticorin Districts, Tamil Nadu. Project period: 01.06.2009 to 31.05.2012

Conducted 130 one day Panchayat level Para Legal trainings benefitting 4472 women on basic women's rights laws such as:

  • Protection of women from Domestic violence Act
  • Dowry prohibition Act
  • Right to Information Act

Conducted 17 District level campaigns on protection of women from domestic violence in collaboration with State Women Commission - Tamil Nadu and Social Action Movement Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry. 2030 women participated.

Conducted eight one-day capacity building workshops for 470 leaders of Women's Rights violations monitoring committees on counseling.

Conducted eighteen three-day capacity building workshops to 899 leaders. Topics included:

  • Constitutional Rights
  • Indian Penal Code
  • Criminal Procedure Code
  • Evidence Act
  • Property Rights
  • Matrimonial laws
  • Child Marriage Restraint Act
  • Prohibition Women Harassment Act
  • Roles & responsibilities of National & International Human Rights Institutions

Conducted 18-day training on Advocacy skills benefitting 664 persons.

Organized 21 Legal Aid Camps in collaboration with various authorities. 2413 grievance petitions were received.

Established four legal aid assistance cells at Nagercoil, Nanguneri, Mudaloor & Tuticorin. 211 victims were supported.

Fact-finding missions commissioned on encroachment, corporal punishment, child abuse, and coastal environment protection.

Conducted 32 conferences, campaigns, and public hearings on women’s rights. Total participants: 14479 women.

Organized annual campaigns against torture and custodial justice in support of UN day on Torture.

Publication of legal resource materials in simplified form:

  • Protection of women from domestic violence Act
  • Poster on rights of the victims during arrest
  • Protection from sexual harassment at work places
  • Abolition of usury system
  • Women's rights violations monitoring guide
  • Resource materials on Fundamental Rights, PIL, State responsibilities, Human Rights Standards, etc.