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.
The joint European Union/Council of Europe action “Fostering women's access to justice in Türkiye” is supporting the capacities of civil society organisations through a grant scheme. Grants were awarded to three civil society organisations, namely Hayat Sende Gençlik Akademisi Derneği (Hayat Sende Youth Academy Association), Şiddeti Önleme ve Rehabilitasyon Derneği (Violence Prevention and Rehabilitation Association – İMDAT) and Sosyal Gelişim ve Dayanışma Derneği (Association for Social Development and Aid Mobilization – ASAM).
The organisations will implement activities that will directly benefit the most vulnerable women and girls throughout Türkiye. They will provide capacity building to municipalities and legal professionals, empower women and girls by enhancing their legal literacy and increase the awareness of the Turkish society on the barriers to women’s access to justice. By addressing these critical areas, these efforts seek to create a more just and equitable environment for all women and girls in Türkiye.
The action organised a meeting with the grantees to inform them about the grant rules and procedures on 18 July 2024.
The action 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 to increasing legal awareness and literacy among women in Türkiye.
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