Jananeethi Free Legal Aid And Psycho-Legal Counselling
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Jananeethi, Mannuthy, Thrissur, Kerala, India
Free entry. Registration not required.
Schedule and Timing:
Jananeethi is open on all days of the week except Sundays from 10 am to 5 pm.
Description:Jananeethi is an institution that provides free legal help, counselling and mediation services for the weaker and vulnerable members of the society.
It is a secular collective of human rights defenders, eminent jurists, retired judges, lawyers, academics, writers, thinkers, artists, social workers, and activists representing humanism, culture, creativity, and knowledge.
Jananeethi activists strive to defend life, dignity, liberty and other fundamental and democratic rights of all using law and legal systems as therapeutic agents. They adopt a rights-based and victim-centred approach for total healing through legal, social, psychological and emotional reparation.
Jananeethi organisational mandate
- Facilitating public platform for the defence of democracy & rule of law
- Providing a Helpline for victims of violence, abuse and prejudices
- Enabling the poor to access justice
- Building social capital for promoting peace
- Promoting justice education, therapeutic jurisprudence & Restorative
- Justice
- Combating torture, corruption and human trafficking
- Advocating for sustainable development and a safe environment
Services Provided
- Helpline to victims of violence, injustice and those in distress
- Psycho-legal counselling
- Legal aid and assistance
- Conflict management & Dispute Resolution
- Clinical legal education
- Scrutiny of documents and legal advice
- Assisted negotiation and mediation for amicable settlement of disputes
- Sensitisation seminars and workshops on gender, and child rights
- Public meetings/debates on challenges to democracy
- Certificate Programmes on Business & Human Rights
- Training of para-legal volunteers, service providers
- Consultancy services
- Fact-finding surveys & alternate reports
- Pedagogies for legal literacy
- Campaigns on rights based issues
- Public interest litigation
- Constructive Engagements & Coalition Building
- Research, Documentation & Dissemination
Contact Jananeethi
P.B. No 8 , Mannuthy,
Thrissur 680651, Kerala
Phone: 0487-2373479 / 2373281
Event id: 233551556
Published on October 30th, 2018, 10:37 pm
Ver.1 Dated February 21st, 2019, 10:27 am
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