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| Title/Description | Legal Clinics and Law and Displacement Network (Red Derecho y Desplazamiento) |
| Country | Colombia » |
| Specific location (city, region, etc) | Bogota y en las ciudades donde están ubicadas las universidades (Medellín, Apartado, Arauca, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Quibdo, Santa Marta, Villavicencio, Pasto, Bucaramanga, Barrancabermeja, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Florencia) |
| Actors/Partners | Latin American Institute for an Alternative Society and an Alternative Law (Instituto Latinoamericano para una Sociedad y un Derecho Alternativos, ILSA) and 14 universities are part of the network |
| Funding | UNHCR » |
| Objectif(s) | Provide legal and/or psychosocial assistance to internally displaced persons, aimed at strengthening individual capacities for the exercise and enforceability of their rights. Meanwhile, the Law and Displacement Network coordinates the universities’ legal clinics and provides methodological and conceptual training to students and teachers working in legal clinics. |
| Results/Impact | In 2009 law students attended 4,217 cases in the legal clinics and conducted the subsequent follow-up. Moreover a number of trainings in forced displacement have been conducted, which have allowed students to raise awareness about the issue and provide better care and counseling to the displaced population. It is important to note that a new database was created with the cases information, which allows systematization and identification of recurring gaps in the protection for displaced population to carry out advocacy actions. |
| Why is this considered a Good practice? | In addition to direct care and protection of individual cases of displaced persons, provides specific case information to identify gaps in public policy (landmark cases). Moreover, students who participate come sensitized to the issue of forced displacement, with a broad legal knowledge on the subject, which later link in their professional career to the protection of IDPs. |
| Pertinent MPA/BPA Component | Protection » |
| Theme (s) | Legal clinics » |
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