Staff Reporter :
Speakers at a dialogue in the capital city on Saturday said that solution of the family related violence with the help of state sponsored legal aid is very much challenging.
“It is very necessary to help those women who are oppressed by family members. But it is very important also to solve family related violence with the help of state sponsored legal aid,” Justice M. Enayetur Rahim, the Chairman, Legal Aid Committee, Bangladesh, said it while addressing the dialogue as the chief guest at CIRDAP auditorium, in the city.
Amrai Pari Paribarik Nirjaton Protirodh Jot organised the dialogue entitled ‘To ensure legal aid through government sponsor systems to the victims of violence against women’.
The chief guest said, “It is necessary to give more powers to the legal aid committee. It is also important to strengthen the aid committee. The law of this regards should be amended.”
The chairman said also that all of the incidents of family violence should not be taken to courts. Those should be solved through counseling.
To solve those problems, the NGO’s and other social organisations should make the people conscious in this regards.
The chief guest said, “It is very urgent to make the legal aid committee more active. The districts and upazila committees should be formed soon.
He said also that some of the speakers asked for introducing ‘one stop services’ in legal aid. To implement this recommendation, the law need to be amended. Md. Golam Kibria, the Director (training) of the Judicial Administration Training Institution said, “We found there are not sufficient consultants in this field to plead for victims in family courts. People need to be more conscious.”
Baroj Kumar Majumdar, the Deputy Inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation said that the police would take action after getting information about violence against women.
Sultana Kamal, the Chairperson of the Jot presided over the programme. Jeenat Ara Haque moderated it.
MB Aktar, Co-Chair of the Jot, Barrister Tapas Kanti Bol, Advocate Farida Yeasmin and Ruma Sultana from Manusher Jonno Foundation also delivered lectures among others.
