How does Legal Aid work in Pakistan?
Pakistan has a multi-pronged structure of legal aid: (1) Pakistan Bar Council Free Legal Aid Rules, 1999 includes provision of ‘free legal aid to indigent litigants’ under ‘Bar Council Legal…
What is Legal Aid?
The access to justice is a basic one under Article 4 (due process), Article 10(a) (fair trial as a fundamental rights), Article 25 (equality before the law) and Article 37(d)…
How to acquire Legal Advice or Legal Aid?
Please scroll through the above shared directory and find the organization best suited to your geographical area for support and help in this regard.
Uphill battle with in-laws
Goretti returned to western Kenya in 2001 to bury her husband and, as dictated by local culture, remained in the family’s homestead. “But they wouldn’t give me food. Everything I came…
Survivor ‘excited about what lies ahead’
Meanwhile, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Bangladesh, triggering a VAWG surge, many shelters and essential services shut down Romela had been married to a cruel, torturous man. “When I was pregnant, he…
‘Convinced’ she would be killed
From the Argentine province of Chaco, 48-year-old mother of seven, Diana suffered for 28 years before finally deciding to separate from her abusive partner. “I wasn't afraid that he would…