STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: The Lawyers Collective Women’s Rights Initiative (LCWRI), an NGO run by former Additional Solicitor General of India, Indira Jai Singh, an authority on women rights, selected Advocate and Rights Activist Deepika Singh Rajawat among fifteen Human Rights Lawyers of the country to be the part Network of Lawyers (NoL).
The LCWRI is a group of lawyers committed to the use of law as an instrument for empowering and changing the status of women in India. Its objective of the formation of NoL is to undertake a comprehensive intervention, which aims at building capacities of lawyers to provide quality and sustainable legal services to women, particularly on violence against women. To fulfill its objective, LCWRI has been involved in legal research and documentation, advocacy for law reform, legal aid and advice, social action litigation, and trainings and capacity development of functionaries and other stakeholders.
Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is heading Voice for Rights (VR) an NGO working for the protection of Human Rights in the J and K State and is practicing law in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Jammu, will work here in the State as a part of NoL against the violation of Human Rights of women and children.
Deepika who is also working with Child Rights and You (CRY) a Delhi based NGO for protection of child rights, has gone through a an intensive selection process by LCWRI to be the part of NoL.
In last one year, Advocate Singh has attended two extensive trainings on substantive law and litigation strategies organised by LCWRI at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and National Law University Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Both the trainings were monitored by legal experts (including senior advocates, judges, and leading academicians). Trainings provided with tools, which will enhance legal skills and knowledge specifically in dealing with cases of violence against women and children.
In Jammu, Deepika who is already working for the rehabilitation of landmine victims, children in need of care and protection, children in conflict with law and forced child labourers as a part of NoL will work with SLA and DLSAs to coordinate and set up training for empanelled lawyers using the Lawyers Collective Training Modules that are being developed, set up a local Network of Lawyers in your State, facilitate a Discussion Forum of DLSA empanelled lawyers in Jammu and organise advocacy meetings with women groups and child rights groups and empanelled lawyers to identify issues of concern/take up issues of concern as identified by NoL
