Part of the al-Afif Girls Forum Program Youths legal awareness [Archives:2002/34/Culture]

REPORTED BY IBTISAM AL-MUTAWAKIL
FOR THE YEMEN TIMES
As part of the Al-Afif Girls Forum Program, Al-Afif Cultural Foundation held on Monday 12 August an activity in which two lectures were delivered on The Legal Awareness, Program on Legal Assistance, which is a program adopted by the Taiz-based Human Rights Information and Training Centre (HRITC).
The introduction to the lectures mentioned that as stress is put on the segment of youth, we emphasize the importance of awareness; its present manifestations and the challenges in store. The question is how much the youths are aware of their rights and duties. Ignorance of the right leads others to breach it, and ignorance of the duty leads to violating it, and consequently would be accountable by law. The lectures were delivered by lawyers Hayfaa al-Shihari and lawyer Sami al-Jabali, both are members of the team on Legal Assistance of the HRITC. The lawyer Hayfaa al-Shihari offered an important presentation on her experience in law as she is among the pioneering lawyers in Taiz. She talked about absence of knowledge in the law in the entire society, confirming that we suffer from ignorance in law including the educated and the illiterate. Then she presented an instance of the Centres efforts in offering the legal help, which is a program meant for helping legally the woman prisoners in the governorate of Taiz.
The second lecturer was lawyer Sami al-Jabali who has at the beginning of his lecture presented a short account on the center, reviewing its more important programs and various activities and then a detailed presentation on the program for helping female prisoners legally and also giving significant information based on scientific field data. Lawyer al-Jabali has tackled in his lecture many legal-social problems on the relationship of female prisoners with law and society as well as the relation of the law with itself and society.
 

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