Access of women from vulnerable groups to justice from an intersectional perspective

Applicant: E-Romnja Association (The Association for Promoting Roma Women’s Rights)

Partener: Romanian Group for the Human Rights Defence - GRADO Association (GRADO)

Implementation period: January - December 2025

Project’s purposeincreasing awareness among NGO’s fighting for human rights, Roma women from the initiative local groups that E-Romnja works with, and women working in public institutions on forced marriages and sexual violence against Roma girls/women, non-Roma, LGBTQ+ community, through and intersectional approach.

Specific objectives:

→ Strengthening the capacity for 20 officials/ representatives/ members from feminist and human rights NGOs through a training and mentoring program on gender-based violence against Roma girls and women.
→ Increasing awareness and information among 50 Roma women, non-Roma and LGBTQ+ from 6 counties by organizing 6 info sessions regarding identifying methods, reporting and referring cases of gender-based violence against Roma girls and women.
→ Developing advocacy actions through campaigns in 3 communities/ counties to increase the level of information and awareness regarding intersectional violence against girls and women.

Activities:

→ Training course for 20 officials/members/ representatives from human rights and feminist NGOs held by trainers specialized in areas such as: legal (national legislation, case law of the European Court of Human Rights, including information and training on writing complaints to ECHR, European standards), gender-based violence, including on Roma women.

→ 6 information sessions, awareness-raising and practical support for 50 women (Roma, non-Roma, LGBTQ+ community) such as:

► 3 information and awareness-raising sessions for 20 participants from public local and county institutions and members of the initiative groups;

► 3 information sessions using working tools for 30 Roma women from three communities (what to do, where to go, to whom to address, what to request, what rights they have, how to find a lawyer, etc.) regarding discrimination and violence;

→ Developing a volunteering-based mentoring program of the NGOs from the Network for the Prevention and Combating Violence towards Women (V.I.F. Network) with the purpose of developing three local advocacy actions. (such as: street actions, video/audio, online, etc. depending on the plans made by the involved NGOs).

→ Providing legal support to 10 Roma girls and women to identify their rights and the legal means available in cases of sexual violence, discrimination and other situations derived from them.

 

The project “Access of women from vulnerable groups to justice from an intersectional perspective” is co-funded by the European Commission and the Transatlantic Foundation in cooperation with the Engaging Central Europe Program (ECE) of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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