News Item: : Legal Resource Center opening ceremony has taken place in Ganja
(Category: Misc)
Posted by TI Az
Friday 16 October 2009 - 20:13:58
To broaden the scope of services of our lawyers and provide legal assistance to all those in need, including assistance with court litigation a new project - Legal Resource Centre (LRC) project – opening ceremony has taken place with the participation of the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Bilge Cankorel in TI Az Ganja office. The project implemented by Transparency Azerbaijan under the grant extended by OSCE Office in Baku, offers free legal advice to residents and support training activities for legal professionals. Coordinator of the Project Sevinj Mammadova has made introductory speech and talked about the cases, statistics and challenges of the project. LRC has special focus on strengthening the judicial sector and the centre will also address the lack of sufficient legal resources in the regions and assist the population at large in all legal matters. In order to give legal advises in spot has been created hotline in the centre. The overall project goal - to strengthen the justice sector – envisions work with the relevant institutions, legislation and procedures, guaranteeing fair trial standards and access to justice for ordinary citizens. The project target group includes various segments of population. Special efforts continued to cover more socially passive rural population and women and vulnerable groups (disabled, refugees, etc.); youth and civil society leaders. Existing centers, inter alia, act as hubs for training young civil society leaders. Volunteers of Centers’ receive on-site training in NGO administration, organization of public events including training programs, and have access to free computer basic. They also have chance to use books from library of centre.
This news item is from .:Transparency International - Azerbaijan:.
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(Category: Misc)
Posted by TI Az
Friday 16 October 2009 - 20:13:58
To broaden the scope of services of our lawyers and provide legal assistance to all those in need, including assistance with court litigation a new project - Legal Resource Centre (LRC) project – opening ceremony has taken place with the participation of the Head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Bilge Cankorel in TI Az Ganja office. The project implemented by Transparency Azerbaijan under the grant extended by OSCE Office in Baku, offers free legal advice to residents and support training activities for legal professionals. Coordinator of the Project Sevinj Mammadova has made introductory speech and talked about the cases, statistics and challenges of the project. LRC has special focus on strengthening the judicial sector and the centre will also address the lack of sufficient legal resources in the regions and assist the population at large in all legal matters. In order to give legal advises in spot has been created hotline in the centre. The overall project goal - to strengthen the justice sector – envisions work with the relevant institutions, legislation and procedures, guaranteeing fair trial standards and access to justice for ordinary citizens. The project target group includes various segments of population. Special efforts continued to cover more socially passive rural population and women and vulnerable groups (disabled, refugees, etc.); youth and civil society leaders. Existing centers, inter alia, act as hubs for training young civil society leaders. Volunteers of Centers’ receive on-site training in NGO administration, organization of public events including training programs, and have access to free computer basic. They also have chance to use books from library of centre.This news item is from .:Transparency International - Azerbaijan:.
( http://www.transparency.az/news.php?extend.18 )