What is Legal Empowerment’s mission?
Legal Empowerment’s unique mission is built on the conviction that poverty can only be eradicated if governments give all citizens, especially the poor, a legitimate stake in the economy by extending access to property rights and other legal protections to populations and areas currently not covered by the rule of law. Legal reforms will allow people in the informal sector in developing countries to acquire rights that we take for granted, to protect them against oppression, and to make them less vulnerable. Some work has already been done in this field, but Legal Empowerment will coordinate these efforts and the lessons learned, actively engaging stakeholder groups including indigenous peoples, women, displaced populations, informal sector associations and federations, labor unions, cooperatives and others.
Related Questions
- Does Legal Empowerment believe the major problem is a lack of adequate legal protections for the poor or the existence of dysfunction, unworkable legal structures in poorer nations?
- Is the cause of women’s empowerment synonymous with Gobbelian propaganda, legal terrorism and human rights violations?
- What is Legal Empowerment’s mission?
