Legal Awareness Campaign

The primary mandate of Usha Foundation is to seek justice for women, safeguard their rights, and promote women’s empowerment. Recognizing the need to impart legal awareness to women and girls, regarding their rights, the Usha Foundation has initiated a legal awareness campaign in Gautam Buddha Nagar District.

On every 2nd Saturday of the month, the Usha Foundation organizes these legal literacy campaigns. We have conducted around 45 Campaigns and more than 800 women and girls of the district have participated in these education campaigns.

Under the project, legal literacy programs for women are carried out in the Gautam Buddha Nagar districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The objective of the campaign is to make the rural people aware of the availability of free legal services for the poor and needy people especially the marginalized section of the society, where and how to avail it and thereby make justice easily accessible for all. Availability of free legal services, legal aid clinics, Lok Adalat, etc were emphasized in the campaign.

Topics Covered in the Campaign:

We follow a detailed structure for the awareness campaign provided by the National Commission of Women (NCW) with some additional topics which we think are important issues to be covered. These topics are:

  • Women helpline: Use of women helpline
  • Domestic violence: Concept of domestic violence,
  • Women and the Constitution: Apart from others, stress should be laid on Fundamental Rights, Constitutional Remedies (Writs), Electoral Law, Voting Rights for Women, participation in Panchayats, etc.
  • Criminal Law and Women: Offences of dowry, rape, molestation, child rape, and child abuse, etc. some recently decided cases may be discussed in detail.
  • Rights at workplace: Equal Remuneration / Minimum Wages Act / Rights under Factories Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Mines, and Plantation Act, Rules of work – in such specific areas, Sexual harassment at workplace.
  • Reproductive Health Rights: Foeticide, Infanticide, Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994, The Medical Termination.
  • Women & Family Laws: Marriage Law, Separation, Divorce, Maintenance, Adoption, Family Laws, Right to Property and Succession, Guardianship, unmarried mother and the legitimacy of her children.

Besides these broad topics, we also take queries of the participants.