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.
Promoting gender equality and women’s access to justice across the Eastern Partnership and the Western Balkan regions
Judges, prosecutors and representatives from judicial training institutions across the Eastern Partnership and Western Balkans regions met in Tirana, to assess the results of the mentoring programme for legal professionals on women’s access to justice.
A series of thematic exchanges were held on technology-facilitated violence against women, opportunities and risks for gender equality when using artificial intelligence in judiciaries, and efforts to enhance regional co-operation of judicial training institutions in the interest of improving to women’s access to justice.
The 2023 Reykjavík Declaration from fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe recalls that the gender equality and the full, equal and effective participation of women in public and private decision-making processes are essential to the rule of law, democracy, and sustainable development.
In this sense, the European Union and the Council of Europe through their joint work are supporting the progress in access to justice for women in the Eastern Partnership and Western Balkan countries, through tailor-made assistance to the authorities to implement the standards set in the Istanbul Convention.
The mentoring programme for legal professionals on women’s access to justice is a key tool to address the constant barriers at the legal, institutional, and socio-cultural levels that women face when trying to access justice.
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This event is organised within the action “Women’s access to justice in the Western Balkans” and the project “Women's Access to Justice: implementing Council of Europe’s gender equality and violence against women standards”, which are respectively parts of the European Union/Council of Europe joint programmes “Horizontal Facility III for the Western Balkans and Türkiye” and “Partnership for Good Governance”.
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