As part of its new series of trainings for lawyers, EBL held a one-day training on gender sensitivity in Dushanbe on February 8, at the Offices of Helvetas and the Ombudsman of the Republic of Tajikistan.

About 130 people attended EBL's Tajikistan country conference on November 15^th in Dushanbe. 

The event was well attended by Tajik governmental officials, members of parliament, civil-society leaders and representatives of the Tajik National and Islamic universities. 

The objective of the “Equality Before the Law” programme is to facilitate access to justice for vulnerable social groups, including rural women, children and young people of the risk group, people with reduced capabilities, minorities, migrants, HIV positive people, and people in custodial institutions. To increase the scope of influence of the “Equality Before the Law” programme within Kazakhstan small grants were distributed within the scope of the programme for innovative projects of non-profit organizations which deal with problems of vulnerable social groups in different regions of Kazakhstan. For several months of their activity EBL grant receivers managed to make their contribution to achievement of the common objective.

The government of Kazakhstan should increase affordable legal aid to vulnerable people, participants at the EBL country conference Oct. 17 in Astana said.

Summary of Research into registration problems and free legal assistance in Southern Kazakhstan. Available here

Even though she was kidnapped, pressured into marrying a man from a nearby village, and then abandoned without means to sustain herself and the couple’s two young children, Totugul can’t rely on Kyrgyzstan’s courts for help.