Description
The aim of the project is to encourage LGBTQI people to start legal procedures in cases of human rights violations and to provide them with quality legal aid throughout the country. The project achieves these goals by creating a network of local activists and lawyers, extending the internet accessibility of our services, assessing the needs of homophobic and transonic hate crime victims, and conducting a legal awareness raising campaign. We will cooperate with other LGBTQI NGOs and professional and academic organizations to execute the project. The project decreases geographical inequalities in accessing our legal aid service, strengthens the visibility and advocacy capacity of local LGBTQI groups, improves the efficiency of our organization, expands reliable knowledge on hate crimes in Hungary, and deepens our ties with local groups and professional organization of lawyers.
Summary of project results
The aim of the project was to encourage LGBTQI people to start legal procedures in cases of human rights violations and to provide them with quality legal aid throughout the country. The project achieved these goals by creating a network of local activists and lawyers via training and mentoring, extended the internet accessibility of the legal aid service of Háttér Society by developing a smartphone app to report human rights violations, assessed the needs of homophobic and transphobic hate crime victims via interview and survey based research, and conducting a legal awareness raising video campaign. The project increased the rights awareness of the LGBTQI community, decreased geographical inequalities in accessing legal services, increased the LGBTQI sensitivity of lawyers, expanded reliable knowledge on homophobic and transphobic hate crimes in Hungary, and strengthened the visibility and advocacy capacity of local LGBTQI groups.
Summary of bilateral results