What is the mentoring programme?Mentoring is a methodology aiming to empower legal professionals, judges, and prosecutors, to advance women’s access to justice. Through peer-to-peer learning, mentees are supported by experienced mentors - their peers from the ranks of judges and prosecutors, recruited by judicial training institutions – to explore innovative approaches and address gender-based inequalities they encounter in their practice. By fostering open dialogue and promoting mindset shifts, mentoring can create meaningful change taking a different approach from the one used in traditional classroom teaching.
The mentoring programme is implemented in ___________________
For more information, visit the web page of the Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye regional action on “Women's Access to Justice in the Western Balkans”.
Download the guide for developing a mentoring programme on women’s access to justice for legal professionals in English.
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And in the Eastern Partnership Region?The mentoring programme has been implemented in the Eastern Partnership Regions since 202X under the EU and Council of Europe joint programme Partnership for Good Governance.
For more information, visit the web page of the Partnership for Good Governance regional project “Women's Access to Justice: implementing Council of Europe’s gender equality and violence against women standards”.
What are the greatest challenges by women as justice users?
Lack of gender-sensitivity and awareness among legal professionals.
The influence of harmful gender stereotypes and bias in the exercise of legal professions.
Women face many obstacles in accessing justice, despite formal commitments in the Eastern Partnership region, as in most Council of Europe member states. These barriers rarely reflect problems with the content of laws and policies formally upheld but rather from procedures and practices in implementing them.
In the efforts to support civil society organisations in Türkiye to improve the accessibility and quality of legal aid services for women, an online discussion was organised with the support of European Union and Council of Europe.
34 civil society representatives (29 women and 5 men) exchanged and shared some of the best practices for raising awareness on gender equality in the field of justice and how to prevent violence against women and domestic violence.
The event amplified the results of the Council of Europe conference “Synergy for change: Civil society raising awareness on violence against women in a context of global challenges” where 91 women’s rights activists and professionals from 26 member countries strengthen collaborative efforts on awareness raising on violence against women in the context of global challenges.
One of the representatives stated that the meeting was very beneficial as it demonstrated that the concerns, challenges, and exchanges are common around the world which fosters hope as it will encourage solidarity. In addition, another participant shared their willingness to co-operate and extend the network to enhance the content and outreach of the capacity building trainings on gender equality and mainstreaming.
The action “Fostering women’s access to justice in Türkiye" is part of the European Union and Council of Europe’s joint programme "Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye". The action contributes to enhancing accessibility and quality of legal aid services for women and supporting key stakeholders, including civil society, as well as increasing legal awareness and literacy among women in Türkiye.
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