|
  |
Introduction
Poverty in the final analysis is
a failure of systems and
institutions. Law defines the
rules of the game governing
exchange, contract, and dispute
resolution when contracts are
renewed – all having fundamental
implications for the poor and
reproduction of poverty.
The poor in large parts of the
developing countries live in a
world where lack of access to
justice, property rights and
legal business limits their
boundary of existence and
constraints graduation out of
poverty and makes such
graduation extremely vulnerable.
They lack access to justice and
thus become a straightforward
victim of violence and
exploitation; they lack labor
rights; for being in the
informal sector, they are
deprived from gaining the
economic eviction. The net
outcome of such disempowerment
and exclusion is
disenfranchisement of the poor,
and true democracy cannot
flourish nor be stable keeping
such large numbers of its
citizens legally disempowered.
Legal empowerment focuses on
alleviation of poverty through
steps taken to “(….) give all
citizens, especially the poor, a
legitimate stake in the economy,
thus making it the right of all
citizens, and not the privilege
of a few, to have access to user
and property rights and other
legal protections” (CLEP, 2006).
Legal empowerment thus is both a
process and a goal to enable and
empower the majority
to use the law to take control
of their life (ADB, 2001).
The concept of legal empowerment
thus evolves around the idea
that the poverty is essentially
a systemic problem and needs to
be tackled by ensuring
enforceable legal entitlements
and rights of the poor through
which they can get decent work,
fair share of property, right to
information and voice so that
they too can affect the
decisions and activities of the
state; i.e. exercise the power
and rights that come with their
citizenship.
This article gives an overview
of the main themes of the legal
empowerment that affects the
poor to set the stage from a
Bangladesh perspective. This
section is mainly based on
papers presented and discussions
at the Bangladesh Workshop on
Legal Empowerment of the poor
held to address the challenges
of legal empowerment of the
poor. The final section puts
forward some suggestions for the
Commission for Legal Empowerment
of the Poor (CLEP) in order to
make concrete progress in
ensuring improvements in legal
empowerment of the poor in the
context of Banglesh.
SOMRAF helped establish a
service which has transformed
the lives of many citizens of
Somaliland. The SOMRAF Legal
service has been offering
free legal advice to the
minorities of Somalia, giving
guidance and representation to
people formerly excluded from
the legal process by their
inability to pay the cost of
Represantation.
SOMRAF offers legal
assistance and monitors local
conditions. We are going to
provide legal Aid to communities
and individual cases , awareness
campaigns on rights related
issues and issue publication
about local conditions and
incidents related to violations
of human rights and exploring
international standards of legal
protection
|
A summary of the
rights under the
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Rights - overview |
Download PDF |
 |
|
BAAQA CAALAMIGA EE
XUQ WQDA AADANAHA |
Download PDF |
 |
|
Concept on the
Policy Regarding the
Protection and
Integration of
National Minorities |
Download PDF |
|
|
Declaration on the
Rights of Persons
Belonging to
National or Ethnic
1992 |
Download PDF |
|
|
Declaration on the
Rights of Persons
Belonging to
National or Ethnic |
Download PDF |
|
|
International
Convention on the
Elimination of All
Forms of Racial
Discrimination |
Download PDF |
|
|
UN Independent
report on Minorties |
Download PDF |
|
|
Universal
Declaration of Human
Rights |
Download PDF |
|
|
Somalia/Somaliland,
