Deadline- 06 January 2013
Proposals are invited for national component of a regional research project on women’s access to justice in plural legal systems in Southeast Asia by The UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (UN Women) to have rights to live free from violence and make decisions about their sexuality, marriage, divorce and reproductive health, can be limited. The plural legal systems may also limit women’s economic rights including the right to decent work, inheritance and control of land and other productive resources. These legal systems are sometimes procedurally biased against women. The Progress of World Women Report of UN Women noted that the existence of legal plural system in itself can pose particular challenges to women seeking justice as it may create a complex web of overlapping systems in which women can lose their protection or access to rights.
Programme aims to achieve the following results–
- expand a core group of actors in plural justice systems with enhanced knowledge and skills on women’s human rights-compliant justice delivery
- to deepen existing frameworks on women’s access to justice in plural justice systems
- enhance legal support systems and advocacies that promote women’s human rights in both state and non-state legal orders
UN Women Regional Programme “Improving Women’s Human Rights in Southeast Asia” is looking for an organization that is able to carry out a national research component as part of a regional coordinated research on women’s access to justice in plural legal systems in Southeast Asia that would serve as a basis for policy recommendations and advocacy.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Proposal can be submitted by a legally registered organization or jointly by two or more registered organizations.
- The applicant must be either a non-governmental organization/s or educational and academic institution/s.
- Preference will be given to national non-governmental organization/s or educational and academic institution/s.
- In case of International Institutions, the institutes must identify and propose qualified national researchers.
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