Equality Law Capability Project
Research into the legal capability of local communities to understand their legal needs and adapt legal services to improve access to the service.
This study examined the legal knowledge, attitudes, capability and needs, with respect to solving legal problems about workplace discrimination or sexual harassment, of people who live, work or study in the western suburbs of Melbourne and identify as belonging to the Vietnamese, Afghan, Indian or South Sudanese communities.
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Related projects
Developing resources to empower migrant sex workers to understand and assert their legal rights.
Improving course materials and exploring how to best collaborate with past participants through volunteering. Focusing on women with experience of family violence and disadvantage, as well as First Nations women, women from CALD backgrounds and recent arrivals.
Community legal education resources for fines and infringements that use game play as an informative and engaging medium for building the legal capacity of legal and non-legal practitioners in community service organisations.
Provide advice and assistance to young workers in casual employment to apply to convert to ongoing employment under the new changes in the Closing Loopholes legislation.
