“Legal space” is a specialized informational portal created to spread legal knowledge, develop legal practices, assist activities of different organizations which provide legal aid to people who belong to poor and vulnerable groups of society.
“Legal space” is a unique communicational platform which offers legal information and online consultations of lawyers free of charge as well as educational programs for our partners.
Partners of “Legal space” portal:
- The network of Community Law Centers
- Coordinating Centre for legal aid providing
- Ukrainian Legal Aid Foundation
- Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
International Renaissance Foundation has developed the model of organization of primary legal aid in community - Community Law Centers.
Apart from providing free legal aid, the Centers also work in such areas:
- Mediation and restorative practices
- Legal consultations in communities
- Countermeasures to domestic violence
- Empowerment of Roma communities
Information and contacts of organizations which provide free legal aid in Ukraine can be found on our websiteі:
- Primary legal aid (legal consultations and information)
- Secondary legal aid (representation in court and legal defense against charges)
There are informational booklets on the protection of rights of citizens on the portal.
They highlight the most important problems for people – social provision, protection of property rights, family law, inheritance law etc.
The portal’s activity is administrated by the Informational resource center “Legal space” established by Kherson Regional Charity and Health Foundation with the support of International Renaissance Foundation’s “Rule of law” program and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
You can use the materials on condition of obligatory hyperlink to portal “Legal space”.