BACKGROUND OF THE TRAINING
The EU-funded Project European Union for Women Empowerment (EU4WE) is a 36-month project (October 2019–October 2022) that aims to promote full and unconditional equality between men and women in Lebanon. This project is implemented and managed by Expertise France (EF), the French public agency for international technical assistance and funded by the European Union. The agency provides partner countries with knowledge, skills, and management expertise in democratic, economic and financial governance; stability, international security and peace; sustainable development, climate and agriculture; and health and human development.
The overarching purposes of EU4WE are to:
I. Reduce Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through women's empowerment.
II. Enhance existing institutional mechanisms working towards gender equality.
Achieving the following results will help to achieve the abovementioned purposes:
The legal strategic litigation training for attorneys falls under Purpose I, Result 1.2 and aims to enhance access to justice for women survivors of domestic violence before civil and religious courts of Lebanon, based on existing applicable international conventions and Lebanese laws.
The training curriculum is based on the comparative legal study launched by EU4WE in June 2021, which builds on the legal assessments of short-term experts that surveyed and analyzed jurisprudence of Judges of Urgent Matters and jurisprudence of religious court (in matters of divorce, custody, etc. containing elements of domestic violence) from August 2020 until November 2020. Direct link to the PDF of the study: https://bit.ly/3qy0EGQ [1]
The study provided a legal analysis of jurisprudence in light of Law 293/2014, international conventions adopted by Lebanon, and international best practices pertaining to domestic violence. It, therefore, identified and illustrated legal gaps and inaccurate practices in jurisprudence of civil courts, mainly jurisprudence of Judges of Urgent Matters, under Law 293/2014 (enacted in 2014, with the latest amendments adopted in December 2020) and jurisprudence of religious courts in cases containing domestic violence elements. To bridge these gaps, the study provided recommendations under applicable Lebanese laws, international conventions adopted by Lebanon, and international best practices, through a legal harmonization approach, keeping in mind that the ultimate objective is to strengthen access to justice for survivors of domestic violence and to improve the outcome of their cases, before both Lebanese civil courts and religious courts.
PURPOSE OF TRAINING.
To implement the recommendations of the legal study mentioned above and to further strengthen access to justice of survivors of domestic violence, EU4WE is seeking to enhance the strategic litigation skills of practicing attorneys handling cases with elements of GBV before Lebanese courts, with a focus on Jaafari religious courts. These attorneys will become the members of a “go-to Task Force” that will be ready to represent women survivors and accompany them legally throughout the legal judicial process before competent authorities, including civil and religious courts.
The planned training session will provide:
DESIGN OF TRAINING
1. Training timeframe, duration, and agenda
The training session is planned from November 1 until November 5, 2021 in Arabic language. This 5-day training of four hours each, will start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 1:30 p.m., with two small breaks in between, from Monday to Friday. The training will be held online via the Zoom platform. Trained attorneys will receive a certificate of attendance, once they have attended all five days of training and completed the training.
2- Training Attendees.
This training is planned for practicing attorneys (men and women) representing women survivors of domestic violence before the various Lebanese authorities and courts (criminal, civil, and religious).
Number of attorneys: 10-15 attorneys for each training session.
A- Profile of training attendees, who will become members of the Task Force
B- Trainee selection process
Women attorneys are highly encouraged to apply. To apply for the training, you must submit your CV along with a cover letter, in which you must respond to the following questions:
Your cover letter should not exceed two pages. Any document that does not abide by these conditions will be rejected and your application will be considered incomplete.
Interested candidates in this training should send their CV and cover letter to [email protected] [2] and include the job title: EU4WE/2021/Jaafari-taskforce
Note: CV and cover letter can be sent in Arabic, English, or...
روابط
[1] https://bit.ly/3qy0EGQ
[2] mailto:[email protected]