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Overview of BNWLA
Organization


BNWLA and its specific programs & achievements for resisting



Bangladesh National Woman Lawyers’ Association (BNWLA) has been fighting to ensure equal opportunities and equal rights for every woman and child in the country for last 29 years. BNWLA promotes the rights and status of women lawyers alongside fighting for access to justice for all women & children particularly for the most disadvantaged women and children in Bangladesh. The programs and service provisions of BNWLA are particularly targeted at the poorest and most disadvantaged areas of the country where comprehensive legal service delivery program along with others preventive and protective supports in establishing human rights and resisting violence against woman and child is most needed.

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BNWLA Vision & Mission
Organization


The Objectives of BNWLA

With a slogan of “Helping to balance scales” and a mission to “Enable women to become self-reliant, conscious of their rights and productive members of society founded on justice,” BNWLA is committed to achieve the following objectives:

•Organize women to develop their status in the community.
•Improve women's and children's domestic, social, legal and economic status.

• Provide justice for all and combat violence against women and children.
•Create equal opportunities and equal rights for every woman and child in Bangladesh
•Establish linkage and network with law enforcing authorities, local people, local elected bodies and civil society as well as other organizations working for the rights of women and children.
•Promote women lawyers of Bangladesh to enhance their scope of profession in the society.
•Adopt measures to remove all forms of discrimination and harassment against women.
The Vision of BNWLA
To improve the legal, social and economic rights of women and children thereby establish rule of law and gender equality.



The Mission of BNWLA

•To ensure access to justice
•To ensure rights of women and children
•To ensure access to justice and establish rights of women and children by reducing violence and inequality.