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IWRAW AP - International Women's
Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific
Call for
Information on Women's Access to Justice
IWRAW Asia Pacific is continuing to strengthen our
strategy on women’s accessed to justice. At this time we are again compiling
information on the barriers women face when trying to access justice at the
national level to update our analysis. We are seeking information from you
specifically on:
1) Discriminatory cultural
attitudes and practices that influence laws and policies and impacts the
application and enforcement of these laws and policies.
2) Challenges and
constraints impacting the claiming of rights by women, including women in
marginalised and vulnerable groups such as:
a.
Human
rights defenders
b.
Rural
women
c.
Women
with disabilities
d.
Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LBTIQ)
e.
Migrants
f.
Asylum
seekers, refugees, stateless persons, internally displaced persons
g. Prisoners (convicted
and under trials) or women placed in protective custodies or correctional
institutions
h.
etc
3) Challenges around the
enforcement of accepted norms and standards based on remedies/decisions by international
and regional bodies.
4) Conflict between the
justice sectors – plural legal systems; formal & informal; quasi-judicial;
interim justice systems.
5) Effectiveness of the
substance of the legal framework such as the constitutional, legislative,
customary laws and jurisprudences.
6) Effectiveness in
application and implementation of laws and policies, including quality of
judicial outcomes by enforcement mechanisms at the national level.
7)
Challenges in ensuring effective institutional arrangements and
facilitating intra and inter-agency coordination, including access to quality
legal aid, and through prioritisation in budgetary commitments and assessment
of aid effectiveness
8) Exacerbated challenges
in particular contexts – including conflict, transition and failed states.
We would appreciate if you can send us any
materials (reports, publications, factsheets) you have on the barriers women
face in your national/regional context. We hope that you can also send
concrete examples/cases.
We hope that you can send us these as soon as possible or latest by 16 August 2012. Please send the information to iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org and iwrawap1993@gmail.com
Wathshlah Naidu and Ayesha Sen Choudhury
Programme Officers
International Women's Rights
Action Watch Asia Pacific
Malaysia
Tel: (603) 2282 2255
Fax: (603) 2283 2552
Email: iwraw-ap@iwraw-ap.org, iwraw_ap@yahoo.com
Website: www.iwraw-ap.org