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About the Organisation
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-ensure access to justice for women from marginalized communities at the grass-root level
-empower women with an understanding of the constitutional framework and laws to enable them to demand their rights and participate in all levels of governance
-ensure better implementation of laws for protection of women through evidence based advocacy with different stake holders
-fix state accountability for promoting, protecting and ensuring women’s rights
-facilitate inclusion of women’s voices at the local level in the national and global discourse on women’s rights.
The team at AALI comprises a group of full time 36 lawyers, development professionals, and grass root workers specializing in the area of women’s human rights and access to justice. While recruiting, due representation is given to women from marginalized communities and diverse socio-economic backgrounds. The organization is led by an Executive Director who is a lawyer and women’s rights activist and has been active in the field of women’s empowerment for the past two decades. Her intervention has been dedicated towards effecting structural change for the promotion and protection of women’s human rights, AALI has a 5-member senior leading team, of which 3 are lawyers and while the other two have extensive expertise in their field as development professionals, with 8-17 years experience in socio-legal field. The entire team is supported by a Board of Trustees who have decades of experience in the field of law and gender equality.
The major challenge since last two years is pandemic due to which we were not able to function as it was planned. Many programs were delayed and new learning processess were adopted to function. AALI is an implementing organization so it was a big challenge for us to fnuncion from work from home. Many physical trainings which were suppose to happen were not fulfilled. Till date in many intervention districts the stakholders are not meeting physically due to fear of pandemic.
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Indicators of Output:
Increased access to justice for women survivors of human rights violations
Holistic empowerment and reintegration of survivors.
Enhanced stakeholders’ capacity on understanding women’s human rights & for using law as a tool for social change
Stakeholder sensitization and behavioral change
Greater State accountability towards ensuring women’s human rights
Better implementation&usage of law
Affirmative changes in Policies & plans Increased knowledge base
In 2021 AALI has:
- Provided direct intervention in the form of pro-bono feminist-legal aid and advice to 1490 women in children across 45 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand. The cases range from domestic violence, facilitated relationships of choice, sexual violence, child sexual abuse, witch-hunting, human trafficking, access to social security entitlements, etc.
- Built knowledge and leadership capacity of 152 women from marginalised communities of Azamgarh and Varansi districts of Uttar Pradesh. These women leaders have in turn reached out to 18240 women from their communities and mobilised them to assert their citizenship rights for social security entitlements and protection of fundamental rights.
- Trained and built capacities of 350 civil society actors, like frontline human rights defenders, lawyers and youth in the hindi-belt on women's human rights, access to justice and effective use of law as a tool for change.
- Trained and built capacities of 1931 relevant government stakeholders part of the justice delivery mechanism, like police, medical practitioners, protection officers, judges, etc. in the hindi-belt on women's human rights and legally robust multi-stakeholder response to violations.
- Disseminated about 6325 copies of IEC material like posters, pamphlets, handbooks, etc. on pressing topics of women's human rights and law/legal processes in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand
- Appointed as Legal and Technical advisor to Aapki Sakhi-Asha Jyoti Kendra (One stop crisis centres of Uttar Pradesh).
- AALI has been recognised by the Ministry of Women and Child Development as an expert on the issue of sexual harassment free workplaces for women and is part of their pool of master trainers on the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
- AALI has support around 50 families with dry ration during the covid response.
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AALI was founded in 1998 in the pursuance of the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China in 1995. From the outset, AALI harnessed the United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) as its primary ideological framework. CEDAW, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979, defines discrimination against women as “any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.” As its main focus, AALI adopted a rights-based approach and elected to concentrate its work on ensuring women’s rights in the private sphere. However, over the years AALI’s interventions have encompassed a wide-range of issues.
Following the 1995 Beijing Conference, women’s rights defenders in Uttar Pradesh, India realized that at the local level, they had been unable to reach the goals that were being discussed within national and international forums. As a result, women’s activists began to brainstorm new opportunities and platforms for the improved planning and organization of their efforts to further women’s human rights, both locally and statewide. The resulting discussions highlighted the importance of interpreting the rights of women through a human rights framework, and of emphasizing the political dimension of women’s issues which must be recognized in order for them to become a priority in the state’s agenda. In 1996, the Women’s Association for Mobilisation and Action (WAMA), a state-level network of women activists, was created to link individual activists together with the aim of inspiring greater coordination of efforts and collaboration on issues of key relevance to women.
Following the creation of WAMA, the critical demand for collective interventions and initiatives for women at the administrative, political, and societal levels remained. As advocating on behalf of women’s human rights was not the primary focus of any single UP-based NGO at the time, activists realized the need to concentrate their efforts on building the capacity of women’s collectives, development organizations, and political and state actors. They also realized that a consolidated approach toward building strategic and organized mechanisms for action was needed. The convergence of these efforts resulted in the formation of AALI.
Today, AALI undertakes research, advocacy, direct response and legal-aid to violations of women’s human rights, often in partnership with outside organizations at the local, national, and international levels. AALI organizes and participates in national-level campaigns, engages in networking and convergence activities, and builds networks, strategic alliances, and responses within various forums. Additionally, AALI responds to out-of-state cases when possible, based on the availability of receptive and organized local support.
AALI's mission is to:
-ensure access to justice for women from marginalized communities at the grass-root level
-empower women with an understanding of the constitutional framework and laws to enable them to demand their rights and participate in all levels of governance
-ensure better implementation of laws for protection of women through evidence based advocacy with different stake holders
-fix state accountability for promoting, protecting and ensuring women’s rights
-facilitate inclusion of women’s voices at the local level in the national and global discourse on women’s rights
AALI envisions an egalitarian social system which recognizes women as complete individuals and equal human beings through proactive advocacy and work on the issues and concerns of women especially from marginalized and deprived communities. AALI seeks to promote and protect the women’s social, economic, and political rights guaranteed in the Constitution of India and in the international human rights treaties while recognizing caste, creed, religion and community as complex contributors to women’s experience of being oppressed, abused and marginalized.
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24/01/2022
Ms. Renu Mishra is the Executive Director at AALI has been leading the organization since 2016. As an experienced lawyer, she has been active in the field of women’s rights and empowerment for two decades now. Her work centers around ensuring the access to justice for women and children. Ms. Mishra specializes in feminist counseling, casework strategy, socio-legal intervention in gender-based violence and promoting women’s socio-economic and civil and political rights. She acts as a technical member and consultant to several national networks as well as state and central departments. In 2016, her contribution to women’s rights in Uttar Pradesh was recognized and honored by the State Government. In 2014 she was presented with the Hindustan Times Woman of the Year Award for her work on women’s empowerment. She holds an L.L.B. degree from Lucknow University, and a master's degree in Commerce.
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2 volunteer with some background in design for social impact to help develop AALIs communication strategy plan
No: 11
Description and Location: Looking for women applicants to be placed at Head Office (Lucknow) or Branch Office (Ranchi, Azamgarh, Varanasi) for the following profile on part-time/full-time basis
- 4 Jr.Program Officer (MEAL)
- 1 Jr.Program Officer (Casework)
- 1 Communication Officer
- 2 Jr.Program Officer (Admin & Finance)
- 1 Front Office Executive
- 1 Documentation Officer
- 1 Admin Officer
Please note: Only organisations with FCRA registration are eligible to receive foreign contributions.
If the organisation has mentioned the URL of a website for online donations/ further details, please copy the link into a separate browser window.1. Purpose: Capacity Building for Direct Case Intervention
Location: Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand , Uttrakhand and Bihar
Target groups: Community Based Caseworkers and Organisations - 60 districts and 30 caseworkers over a period of 3 years
Amount: 50 Lakhs for 3 years intervention and handholding for sustainability
2.Purpose: Rigorous Evidence based Advocacy for gender inclusive laws and policies for realisation of human rights of women and children - includes evidence collection and documentation on special laws such as Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace 2013, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012, etc.
Location: Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttrakhand and Bihar
Target groups: State
Amount: 2 Crore
3. Purpose: Women's Leadership Development: Community Initiative
Location: 52 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttrakhand and Bihar
Target groups: women from marginalised communities
Amount: 1 Crore
Please note: Only organisations with FCRA registration are eligible to receive foreign contributions.
Please check with the organisation about delivery, logistics, payment of duty, etc. before dispatch.
If the organisation has mentioned the URL of a website for further details, please copy the link into a separate browser window.Item: 4 laptops
Purpose: Capacity building workshops
Target Group: Grassroots marginalized women
Item: 3 cars/vans
Purpose: Women's Leadership Development
Target Group: Grassroots women from marginalised communities
Item: Office Table, Chairs and File Cupboards
Purpose: Support AALI's casework, capacity building, research and Advocacy work
Target group: AALI Team
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