Promoting legal aid communication to ethnic minorities and mountainous areas

In recent times, the State Legal Aid Center of Lang Son province has regularly promoted communication activities to raise people's awareness of legal aid; and enhanced and improved access to and enjoyment of quality legal aid activities for ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Lang Son province is a mountainous province, transportation in many areas is still difficult, people's awareness of the law is limited. Therefore, the implementation of legal aid communication in the province has been focused on with many diverse, rich, effective forms, for many beneficiaries.

Communication about TGPL for subjects eligible for TGPL in Lang Son province.

As a result, in the past time, Lang Son province has organized 162 communication sessions on legal aid in communes and villages with a total of 7,657 participants; 2 communication sessions on access to legal aid policies at schools in direct and online forms with a total of 1,645 students; 3 communication conferences on legal aid for people with disabilities with participants being people with disabilities, representatives of families with people with disabilities, and people in the province. The Provincial State Legal Aid Center has signed broadcasting contracts with cultural, sports and communication centers of districts to serve communication activities and information on legal aid in communes and villages of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas in districts in the province; broadcasting information on legal aid through the loudspeaker system of communes, villages and hamlets with special difficulties in the province; Provided 389 information boards, 750 information leaflets on legal aid, printed more than 190,000 legal leaflets on legal aid and distributed them to People's Committees of districts, cities, People's Committees of communes, wards and towns, prosecution agencies and people in the province.

From 2022 to present, implementing the National Target Program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the period 2021-2030, phase I from 2021 to 2025, the Provincial State Legal Aid Center has organized and conducted 162 training, communication and information conferences on legal aid; developed 8 reports on instructions on accessing legal aid, successful legal aid cases broadcast on the Provincial Radio and Television Station, Lang Son Electronic Newspaper; sent news articles on legal aid activities to be published on Lang Son Newspaper, Electronic Information Page of the Legal Aid Department, Ministry of Justice , Electronic Information Page of the Provincial Legal Education and Dissemination, Electronic Information Page of the Department of Justice...; Compile, print, and distribute 157,000 legal brochures on legal aid, 47,000 handbooks and legal question and answer books on legal aid to provincial and district-level prosecution agencies, district People's Committees, and commune People's Committees in ethnic minority and mountainous areas so that more people know about legal aid, seek it out, and request it.

In addition to implementing traditional forms of communication, the Provincial State Legal Aid Center has strengthened multi-dimensional communication on legal aid to improve people's access to information related to legal aid on mass media; effectively build and operate content on legal aid on social networking sites such as Facebook, Zalo, etc.

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