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Family Justice

Goal

In accordance with Egypt’s social policy, this project wants to strengthen equal access to justice, enhance family stability, and protect the rights of children. The Family Justice Project (FJP) objective is to support in the implementation efforts of Law 10/2004, pertaining to the family court system.

Time Span

The project will last four and a half years:
It started on January 15, 2006 and will be completed by July 15, 2010.

Geographical Scope

The Family Justice Project is implemented in three governorates: Giza, Minya, and Port Said.

Objectives

The FJP intends to:

Raise awareness of family courts and how to access their services, including the awareness of peaceful conflict resolution.
Teach better communication skills, problem solving, and acceptance of others within the family to avoid violence.
Establish counselling offices that provide legal, social, and psychological services to families of the community, together with NGOs. These NGOs also engage in capacity building, training the personnel of these offices to ensure that they perform efficiently.
Propagate child protection and child rights as a basic component of NGO activities or any amicable settlement of disputes.
Provide economic empowerment to families at dispute, when poverty is the basic reason for conflict.