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Areas of Intervention

01

Legal Assistance

  • Providing legal aid and access to justice for individuals and groups in need.

02

Monitoring Rights

  • Monitoring and advocating for the protection and promotion of human rights at local and regional levels.

03

Reproductive Rights

  • Advocating for sexual reproductive health and rights to ensure fair access and treatment for all.

04

Awareness and Advocacy

  • Advocating for policy and law change to promote and protect human rights for all individuals and groups.

05

Environmental Justice

  • GLIHD ensures fair treatment, meaningful involvement, and equitable access to a healthy, sustainable environment.

05

Environmental Justice

  • Engaging and empowering young people through educational programs and economic opportunities.​

06

Inclusive Empowerment​

  • Promoting diversity and inclusion, and empowering marginalized groups for a more equatable society.​

01

Legal Assistance

  • GLIHD provides legal aid services in three different ways:

Mediation through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
GLIHD attends to walk-in clients and provides them with legal advice. It also encourages reconciliation where matters are settled without necessarily going to court.

Legal representation in courts of Law.
GLIHD assists its beneficiaries, especially the vulnerable, to take their cases to courts on a probono basis and represents them.

Legal education/ Awareness.
GLIHD conducts legal education sessions for its beneficiaries, this is done through training/raising awareness on different laws gazette by the government especially on human rights enshrined in the laws.

02

Monitoring Rights​

  • Under this, GLIHD engages in;

Monitoring the state of human rights
Drafting shadow/parallel/alternative reports to the state report and submit to relevant human rights bodies.

Carrying out advocacy before both regional and international human rights bodies for the consideration of the reports.

03

Reproductive Rights​

  • In line with, efforts are geared towards the increase of people’s knowledge about SRHRs including health professionals (nurses, midwives, medical doctors).

Training of different stakeholders such as media, lawyers, CSO, etc. on human rights.

Engaging local law enforcement authorities.

Addressing issues facing women in general:
Legal framework of sexual reproductive health rights and abortion (National and International Laws e.g. the mainstreaming of the Maputo protocol).

04

Awareness and Advocacy​​

  • With this aspect, work is in line with challenging provisions which are restrictive in the penal code on accessing safe abortion towards the realization of women’s rights.
Decriminalization of sex workers. Drafting position papers and submit to relevant authorities like the Parliament, Law Reform Commission, etc.

05

Environmental Justice

GLIHD’s environmental justice interventions aim to ensure that people are treated fairly and have meaningful involvement in decision-making that affects their health and the environment. It also aims to ensure that people have equitable access to a healthy, sustainable, and resilient environment.

06

Inclusive Empowerment​​

  • GLIHD provides legal aid services in three different ways:

Mediation through Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).
GLIHD attends to walk-in clients and provides them with legal advice. It also encourages reconciliation where matters are settled without necessarily going to court.

Legal representation in courts of Law.
GLIHD assists its beneficiaries, especially the vulnerable, to take their cases to courts on a probono basis and represents them.

Legal education/ Awareness.
GLIHD conducts legal education sessions for its beneficiaries, this is done through training/raising awareness on different laws gazette by the government especially on human rights enshrined in the laws.

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