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Disadvantaged Groups to Benefit More Effectively from Legal Aid Services
Now on its home stretch of the 3-year run, the SILA Project was devised to promote access to legal aid services. As a comprehensive project, SILA’s 2nd and 3rd Components undertake activities to provide better access to legal aid by women, children, refugees, LGBTIQ and other disadvantaged groups.
Under the project, many important steps were taken on preventing trauma, identifying protection needs at the court houses and referring to appropriate services for child victims of domestic violence, women victims of abuse and violence, victims of sexual offences and many others. An elective course of “Law and Justice” was developed so that individuals would have increased awareness of their rights from early school ages.
In the context of training modules, two training programmes were delivered on 17-18 March and 30 March-01 April 2018 in Antalya on the following topics: being a woman in Turkey, being child, being a LGBTIQ individual, being a person with disabilities, what is it like being a refugee; what are the roles and responsibilities of lawyers in this context; how should lawyers be represented in the public; how to strengthen the attorney-client relation; what is trauma, how should a lawyer deal with a traumatised client; what are the problems of refugees, things to know when representing a refugee, things to know when representing a child; how is the gender structure in Turkey, how to deal various issues etc.