GREAT - LMTV Women's Right and Gender Equality KJHAM

Background

Legal Resources Centre in Gender Equality and Human Rights (LRC-KJHAM) is an NGO working on the promotion of human rights and gender equality in Semarang, Central Java. It was founded in 1999 and currently working on strengthening access and control of Marginal Women in Central Java for Law and Human Rights Resources; Feminism Participatory Action Research (FPAR); Women’s rights impact Assessment (WRIA); and legal support for domestic violence and mentoring victim group.

Project Aims

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LRC-KJHAM needs support from international volunteers to achieve the aims:

Supporting LRC-KJHAM in promoting human rights, especially women’s rights & gender equality through different methods, depends on volunteers’ skills and interests.
To support LRC-KJHAM to advocate and become a resource center for gender equality and human rights to develop a Human rights strategy to get more access and control for marginal women.

Main Works

Volunteers are expected to have strong self-initiative and self-motivation to decide their own set of activities that fit their skills, interests, and experiences. The staff LRC-KJHAM will supervise and volunteers decide in which division they can fit in. Some possible activities:

Support information technology (IT) division,
Collect news on human rights-related topics from newspapers,
Support with the documentation
Support with the public relation
Work together with other LRC-KJHAM staff for FPAR in some regencies and rural areas. Volunteers might need to experience live-in in the community for some days;
Share and support on Woman Rights Impact Assessment WRIA
Support and join training and seminars held by LRC-KJHAM.

*Note: 25 to 40 hours/week. Sometimes the volunteers are needed to support LRC-KJHAM and/or GREAT to do other voluntary actions during the weekends.