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The Legal Department

Operates in: Legal defense

Legal Aid


	About the Project This project aims to advance the legal situation of Arab women in Israel. It provides free legal aid to low-income Arab women. It offers education on the legal system in Arabic, and attempts to make structural changes by means of legal advocacy. more Why this Project is important The legal system is highly complex and difficult. Too often, the most vulnerable groups in a society - women and minorities - lack access to legal knowledge and legal services. Their inability to know their rights, and to defend them, adds to the impoverishment and marginalization of these minorities. It forces them to admit defeat, to accept intolerable conditions and to live with abuses of their rights. One in ten Arab women in Israel has had no schooling; one in seven is illiterate. They cannot read legal information in Hebrew. Equipped with scarce information and deficient Hebrew, women are often intimidated in front of judges and officers. more What the project achieves Every year, our lawyers support a great number of women through legal consultations and representation in individual cases. About two thirds of our cases are family law cases. In such cases, our priority is to build women`s trust in the new civil family court system, as most women still approach the traditional, gender-biased religious courts with which they are familiar. We provide these legal services to low-income women who do not have the resources to consult a lawyer. The Internet is also a great source of legal information, and we do publish our brochures on our website, yet many women do not have the computer skills to use the Internet. We therefore bring brochures and lectures in Arabic to the women to inform them about their legal rights. Because of the strict social and psychological barriers that make it very difficult for women to leave their familiar surroundings, their towns and villages, Kayan`s mobile support is extremely important. more


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Printing of one brochure about legal rights

450

One lecture to a women's group about legal rights

2000

Free legal representation for a low-income women in one case


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