Law Students Teach Schoolchildren About Rights
In mid-June 2008, fifty law students who had led weekly classes for third- through tenth-graders in six cities throughout Azerbaijan graduated from USAID’s Street Law Program. The program, implemented through the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Legal Education Reform Program trains law students to teach children in Baku, Sumgait, Lankaran, Ganja, Mingachevir, and Khachmaz about their basic legal rights, conflict resolution, and ways to identify and combat corruption through role-playing and other forms of interactive instruction.
During the ceremony, the law students shared their experiences and expressed the impact of the Street Law Program on them and the schoolchildren. Proud to be part of a program that empowers children, many law students felt that their own knowledge of legal rights had been enhanced through the experience.
Over the past four years, the USAID Street Law Program has trained over 200 law students from eight universities to lead classes and on-line discussions for over 2,000 schoolchildren in six cities across the country. Female law students comprised 58 percent of 2008 program graduates.
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These two law students were among the 50 who graduated from USAID’s Street Law Program in June 2008. More than 2,000 schoolchildren in six Azerbaijan cities have benefited from the program since its inception in 2004.
Photo Credit: ABA/CEELI |
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