APWLD is inviting young women migrants and women migrants’ rights defenders
to apply for:
Feminist Legal Literacy and Organising Training 2024
Deadline For Applications: 30 September 2024
Background
Women migrants are often experiencing human rights violations and have limited or no access to justice due to their vulnerability as migrants. The discriminatory or inadequate social policies, lack of information available for migrants, lack of protection for complainants and witnesses, language barriers often prevent migrants from obtaining redress and seeking justice when violations happen. These barriers are just a few among other barriers, such as limited knowledge and understanding of the law within the destination place. It is crucial for women migrants to understand the legal framework protecting their rights and have the capacity to analyse the law and policies to advocate for their rights.
In addition, women migrants often found difficulties in raising their issues and concerns as well as their demands due to those limitations and barriers. It is also crucial for women migrants to be able to organise themselves in order to gain support and advocacy opportunities as well as to take action in defending their rights and accessing justice. However, the distinct places of living and sometimes isolation gave more challenges for women migrants to organise themselves. Learning from experiences, APWLD identifies some specific challenges and barriers faced by women migrants and finds it important to contextualise the APWLD feminist legal analysis into migration issues and develop different strategies for migrants organising.
About the Training
The Feminist Legal Literacy and Organising Training aims to enhance capability of migrant women to effectively challenge discriminatory laws and practices against women in migration using Feminist Legal Theory and Practices as a framework for analysis and strategising for advocacy and enhancing the leadership, voice, influence and capacity of women in migration to organise themselves to advance their human rights and justice.
Objectives of the Feminist Legal Literacy and Organising Training 2024
The objectives of the training are:
- To understand gender, discrimination, equality, laws and human rights in relation to women in migration
- To enhance capacity and capability to effectively challenge discriminatory laws and practices against women in migration by feminist rights based legal practice and the application of international conventions, agreements and precedents relevant to the advancement of women’s rights, in particularly related to migration
- To share on experiences in the use of law for advocacy on issues of women in migration
- To understand the importance of women organising for advocacy and campaign on issue of women in migration
- To exchange strategy and enhance capacity of women migrant organisers/defenders to organise themselves to advance the human rights of and accessing justice for women in migration
The training will be conducted from 6 – 9 November, 2024 (excluding travel days) and the exact location/venue of the training will be notified to the selected participants upon selection.
Who can apply:
This training is for women migrants, organisers and defenders, prioritising young women migrant organisers/defenders, selected through open call. Selection criteria of the participants are as follows:
- APWLD members as well as non-members from Asia and the Pacific.
- Young women migrants, women migrants’ rights defenders, paralegal, activists, case workers, legal aid lawyers who engage with or working on the issue of women in migration.
Please note that proficiency in English is necessary as this is the medium of communication for the training, and learning material will be in English. Applicants who are not proficient in English must indicate in their application and might be considered where other participants have agreed to act as translators.
Participants will be selected based on the following considerations:
- Sub-region/country representation in Asia and the Pacific. Underrepresented sub-region will be priorities.
- Combination of young women migrants, migrants’ rights defenders, activists, paralegals, case workers engaging with the law for women migrants’ rights and social justice.
- Preference will be given to individuals recommended by organisations which are affiliated with APWLD member organisations, and those who have previously participated in APWLD trainings.
- The group size will be limited to 15.
Expectations and obligations of participants:
Pre-training (APWLD will provide guidelines and materials):
- Collate and submit national information, policies or case studies.
- Accomplish reading materials, as provided, before participating in the training.
- Respond to emails in a timely manner as that will be the main method of communicating regarding deadlines, registration, hotel and travel arrangements.
- Comply with all the logistical requirements in coordination with the APWLD team.
During training:
- Attend the training for the full period.
- Actively participate and share knowledge, expertise and experiences, including making presentations, group work, mobilising speeches, etc.
- Develop a personal/organisational action plan/critical pathway at the end of the training that will demonstrate how they will utilise the training as part of their legal literacy and organising within the next one to two years.
Post-training:
- Maintain regular contact with APWLD and other training participants to exchange lessons, experiences, practices and impacts that result from the training.
- Report to APWLD on applying the action plan/critical pathway during the follow-up by APWLD.
Cost of the training and sponsorship:
APWLD will cover the selected applicants’ participation cost, including economy airfare, boarding and lodging during the training and applicable visa fees. Other additional travel-related expenses must be informed by the participant to APWLD beforehand for approval.
Application procedure:
All applicants MUST submit the following documents:
- Completed Application Form;
- Updated Curriculum Vitae (not more than two pages long) clearly stating their experience; and
- Endorsement letter from your organisation
To apply, please fill in the online application form. The application must be submitted by 30 September 2024.
If you are unable to fill-in the Google Form, please download the application form here, and email it along with your Bio or Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Endorsement Letter with the subject line: Application for Feminist Legal Literacy and Organising Training 2024 to Shardha Rajam (shardha@apwld.org).
Only selected candidates will be contacted for further details. For any questions, you can write to our Migration Programme team on the above email address.
