Deadline: 24 September 2018
Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and the Public Foundation “Development of Civil Society” are seeking applications for the 1st Central Asia Sub-Regional Feminist Legal Theory and Practice (FLTP) Training which will be held from 4-9 November 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The FLTP framework has feminism as its core and human rights as its foundation. The training seeks to challenge the traditional notion that law is a neutral, objective and rational set of rules, unaffected by the perspective of those who wield power in societies. Participants are enjoined to appreciate and analyse the social, cultural and political contexts that shape the legal system. Understanding that law (as a culture, system and as an institution) is a reality that women face and engage with; it is essential for women’s rights activists to explore how law can be utilised to transform women’s lives.
Objectives
- To enable participants to share their experiences of feminist legal advocacy
- To develop greater understanding of gender, discrimination, equality, law and human rights
- To provide the participants with tools for feminist advocacy, strategic litigation, and capacity building.
- To identify and address challenges and dilemmas encountered by women’s rights advocates in their use of legal strategies to address women’s rights
- To enhance the capability of participants to effectively challenge discriminatory laws and practices in their countries by feminist, rights-based legal practice and by applying international conventions and precedents for advancement of women’s human rights
- To ignite campaigns to advance women’s human rights in Central Asia
- To build a network of feminist legal practitioners and activists at the sub-regional level
- to provide of participants of knowledge and skills on FLTP
Themes
- women’s lives and realities;
- feminism and women’s movement;
- structural and systemic forces of oppression, feminist engagement with the law, Globalisation, Fundamentalism and Militarism and Patriarchy;
- women, human rights and developments in international law;
- strategies for feminist legal theory and practice
Benefits
APWLD will cover costs of board and lodging for the 6-day training (inclusive of a 1-day solidarity activity). In addition, APWLD will also cover costs of discounted economy airfare to and from Almaty, Kazakhstan, visa fee, airport tax, travel tax. All additional travel related expenses must be informed by the participant to APWLD beforehand for approval or participant will not be reimbursed for those expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Training is open to all genders
- APWLD members as well as non-members from Central Asia may apply
- Judges, lawyers, paralegal, activists (working for women’s human rights on any concerns ranging from violence against women, land rights, climate justice, labour and migrant rights to decent work and living wage; and access to information technology), prosecutors, case workers, academics, media persons, writers, poets, women human rights defenders, who engage with law or use law for women’s human rights and social justice; and who protect Human/Women’s rights and support feminist values may apply
- Activists and development workers engaged with the and other international and sub-regional bodies on issues of marginalized groups, for example: land, food, climate, labour, political participation etc.
How to Apply
All applicants should submit a completed application form via email given on the website along with their Curriculum Vitae (CV).
For more information, please visit APWLD.