Domestic violence

On March 14 2019, Academy of Justice within the trainings for free professions, upon request of the Free Legal Aid Agency and with the support of UNDP conducted training on the topic of Domestic violence.  

Purpose of this training was correct application of legal provisions of the Law on protection of the domestic violence victims and establishment of the best practices for provision of the free legal aid for these cases by officials of the legal aid.

This training elaborated on the basic principles of the law on protection from domestic violence, which foresees to help the affected persons with no discrimination, and other issues like: forms of occurrence of the domestic violence, protection order, conditions for setting the protection order, and measures for preventing violence. Also, particular attention was paid to the presence of the officials for protection of the victims during the first statement provided by the victim, knowing that that statement is the most real and honest, that precisely presents the experience that the victim has had. The training continued to give explanations about the role of police, the Officials for victim’s protection and the center for Social welfare, and of the Free Legal Agency itself, in handling these cases.

The afternoon part, discussed about the judicial procedure, judicial decisions, execution of the protection order and consequences for violating the protection order, as well as cases and problems that the free legal agency officials face in handling these cases, by addressing potential solutions in compliance with legal provisions.

Beneficiaries of this training were Officials of the Free Legal Aid Agency. Participants in this training were representatives of NGO’s like CRPK, CLARD, NORMA and Active Women of Gjakova.