Fwd: [Kptj-communications] Fwd: Call for applications: INTERIGHTS' 2nd annual women's human rights litigation surgery

[Grace Bomu]

Hi,
this may be of interest to some. Best

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From: Wangui wa goro <wag...@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:05:08 +0100
Subject: [Kptj-communications] Fwd: Call for applications: INTERIGHTS'
2nd annual women's human rights litigation surgery
To: kptj kptj <kptj-comm...@fahamu.org>, Muthoni Wanyeki
<lwan...@khrc.or.ke>

OF INTEREST. KINDLY CIRCULATE

Dear all

My apologies for cross posting. Kindly circulate the call.

*INTERIGHTS <http://www.interights.org/>* * *is pleased to announce a call
for applications to lawyers who would like to participate in a
forthcoming *litigation
surgery on women’s human rights*. Applicants are required to submit cases
involving women’s human rights violations.

The objective of the planned litigation surgery is to identify and provide
substantive support to cases involving women’s human rights that could be
pursued before domestic or international fora and to build relationships
with lawyers undertaking such cases. The litigation surgery will be held in
Kenya from 20th October to 22nd October 2010.

*Criteria for eligibility:*

- The call for applications is open to lawyers, whether in private
practice or affiliated to an NGO, who litigate on women’s human rights in
Africa. It is desirable that lawyers have an affiliation to an NGO. A total
of 12 participants will be selected;

- The lawyers must have a demonstrated interest in and/or knowledge
of women’s human rights;

- The lawyers must also have a demonstrated interest in and/or
knowledge of international and regional human rights law;

- In order to be considered, the lawyers must be involved in litigating
a case or cases that address women’s human rights violations. With their
application, they must submit at least one case study of a case that they
are litigating or intend to litigate that could be discussed during the
litigation surgery;

- The cases submitted *must involve the violation of a fundamental
right* protected in a national constitution, African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights (“ACHPR”), Economic Community of West African States
(“ECOWAS”) Treaty, East African Community Treaty, Southern Africa
Development Community Treaty (“SADC”), Treaty on the Convention on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women (“CEDAW”).

- The complainant must be willing to have the case litigated before
their national courts and, if domestic remedies have been exhausted, to have
the case referred to the ACHPR or other applicable treaty body.

- The cases must fall within one of the following themes:

× Violence against women

× Sexual harassment

× Women’s property rights including inheritance rights

× Discrimination based on HIV AIDS

× Family law

- Applicants are encouraged to submit more than one case

- The working language for the meeting will be English

*Closing date for applications: 30 July 2010 *

*How to apply*:* *

Please complete the attached application form and submit it together with
your case summaries to Iya Kvitsiani-King at ikvitsi...@interights.org

If you should require any further information please contact Sibongile
Ndashe at snd...@interights.org

Shortlisted applicants will be notified soon after the closing date and
should be available for telephone interviews on *13 August 2009.*

Regards,

Sibongile

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a
temporary measure, is to betray it - Germaine Greer
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Wangui wa Goro

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Grace L.N. Mutung'u (Bomu)
Kenya