Legal Literacy - Nepal (LLN) was established in 2023 by a group of young, energetic, and experienced professionals in the field of law, human rights, and social work.
The organization is working to promote the rule of law and human rights standards in Nepal. It aims to achieve this objective by enhancing legal literacy and developing access to justice for children, women, and people from marginalized communities. The organization focuses on children’s rights and juvenile justice, women/girls’ rights against gender-based violence, and human rights of people from marginalized communities, including their rights to quality education, to be safe from corporal punishment, to have a safe learning environment, to equal and fair treatment and full enjoyment of human rights, etc.
To promote a just and equitable society by legally, socially, and economically empowering women, children, and people from marginalized communities to enjoy their rights.
LLN’s mission is to promote the legal literacy of women, children, and people from marginalized communities regarding their rights and access to justice. LLN seeks to achieve this mission through a number of activities, including legal literacy, legal aid, and high-level policy advocacy for legal and institutional reform for fair and effective enjoyment of human rights.
Promoting legal empowerment to enjoy fair, transparent, and equal access to rights.
• To promote legal literacy among women, children, and people from marginalized communities,
• To provide free legal aid service to women, children, and people from marginalized communities whose rights are violated,
• To promote human rights and the rule of law,
• To advocate for policy and institutional reform.
• Stand for the protection and promotion of the rule of law and the respect of human rights,
• Empower, inspire, and engage women, children, and communities to develop safe learning environments for children,
• Be honest, dedicated, transparent, and have inclusive teamwork,
• Be open and accountable for our actions,
• Respect and promote professionalism.
Legal Literacy - Nepal (LLN) takes a proactive approach to deal with corporal punishment of children, child rights and juvenile justice, gender-based violence against women and girls, and protection and promotion of the human rights of individuals from marginalized communities. It adopts the following Strategic Approaches:
LLN works in the child education sector, and especially focuses on quality education through positive disciplining methods and the end of corporal punishment of children. To end the corporal punishment of children, LLN provides legal education regarding the prohibition of corporal punishment of children to teachers, parents, and communities. To eliminate corporal punishment of children, LLN organizes discussion meetings, workshops, training, etc. for school management committees, teachers, education departments, parents, and communities. LLN also provides training regarding child psychology and the use of positive methods to deal with children. Likewise, LLN organizes classes to develop the legal awareness of children kept in Child Correction Homes.
LLN aims to protect the rights of women, children, and people from marginalized communities by proactively intervening, documenting, and reporting to the concerned authorities for urgent intervention and protection of victims. On behalf of victims of violations, LLN files lawsuits before courts and provides free legal aid services. Likewise, the children in conflict with the law and kept in Child Correction Homes are provided free legal counseling, education, and entertainment support. LLN organizes training and workshops for the stakeholders to protect the rights of children.
LLN conducts legal literacy classes/training/meetings with the children, women, and marginalized communities to make them aware of their rights, including the right to learn in a violence-free environment, the right to be protected from physical and mental harm, the right to be safe from gender-based violence, the right to be protected from socio-economic injustice, the right to freedom of speech, the right to free assembly, the right to protection from all forms of violence, etc. LLN provides these services by conducting programs in schools and communities with the aim of promoting a just, equitable, and sustainable society.
LLN works for and engages with children by helping them to form child clubs while providing logistic and technical support to the programs the children plan to do for their benefit, as well as for children kept in Child Correction Homes. LLN provides legal literacy classes on child rights and juvenile justice and psychosocial counseling to the children. To end violence against children, LLN engages with parents/guardians, communities, school management committees, teachers, education departments, etc.
LLN does research-based policy advocacy for legal and institutional reform for the protection and promotion of children’s rights and juvenile justice, women/girls’ rights against gender-based violence, and the human rights of people from marginalized communities. We organize briefing meetings with stakeholders, submit memoranda, issue press statements, and lobby with the government for policy and institutional reform for the protection and promotion of children’s rights and juvenile justice, women/girls’ rights against gender-based violence, and the human rights of people from marginalized communities in line with international standards.
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