Legal Aid & Human Rights Awareness Project
The purpose of this
project is to teach Vulnerable groups about their basic legal rights. These rights include the
right to work, to an adequate standard of living, to participate in cultural
and political life, to education and freedom of religion.
The
Legal aid clinics coach and empower local community and vulnerable groups with
the necessary knowledge of legal and court procedures to enable them to
represent their cases in Court.
The
volunteer work at this project involves legal counseling and reconciliation
sessions on legal issues like labor law, employment, matrimony, land, contract,
children’s rights, tort, probate, etc.
Volunteer
placement and field research opportunities are not restricted to people who
have legal academic background and human rights experience – though most of the
interns, assistants, and students have completed law studies. The project also
provides psychosocial support to widows, vulnerable children, orphans and their
foster parents. You will work in the following fields of expertise.
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Advocacy
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Administration
• Organization development
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Publication
•
Research
Key
programmers will including paralegals, Village Legal Workers and Human Rights
Monitors at the grassroots Volunteer will deal with implementation of projects
which advocates for Domestication and Implementation of rights of vulnerable
groups in Tanzania. (The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s
Rights on the Rights of Women, 2003),Gender and children advocacy and advisory
services to the government, civil societies and the general public and HIV
victims awareness rights and duties through outreach community visiting.