More gender-sensitive panel lawyers has become indispensable to free society from gender disparity that needed to establish rights of the women litigants, discussants told a training programme in Rajshahi.
They viewed that the professional lawyers should take the responsibility of highlighting the gender- sensitive issues as their works could be an effective tool of eliminating the existing barriers to establishing gender parity.
Zero tolerance against all sorts of violence and repression against women is very important for establishing their dignity in society and gender parity has become an urgent need to this end.
Rajshahi unit of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) organized the training for its panel lawyers and staffs in a city hotel recently in association with Community Legal Services Programme. Main thrust of the training was to sensitizing them of how to establish the fundamental rights of women litigants.
