The litigation institute held in Johannesburg, South Africa had three main objectives;
- To build the capacity of the lawyers in the region to litigate on sexual reproductive health rights and violence against women issues at the domestic and regional levels.
- To develop successful regional and state level litigation strategies on women’s’ human rights in Africa.
- To provide continuous support and expertise for women’s’ rights litigation efforts by strengthening the network of lawyers for women’s human rights strategic litigation in the region.
The participants were human rights lawyers from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The training involved capacity building sessions including in depth discussions by the faculty experts drawn from different organizations litigating on human rights, focus group discussions on violence against women and sexual reproductive rights issues, a moot court competition and participant experience sharing on decided public interest litigation cases in the East and Southern Africa region.
On the 14th October, the last day of the institute, Sibongile Ndashe, the Founder and Executive Director of Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) expressed that she was confident that she had achieved her objective of developing a pool of feminist litigators with expertise on gender and sexuality.
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