{"id":270,"date":"2020-10-14T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2024-10-02T07:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T07:37:02","slug":"legal-assistance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/helpful-services\/legal-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-dcb5a8d4609200872629e80d27afd2c2\" style=\"background-color:#0072bc\">As a refugee and asylum-seeker, you have a right to access legal remedies in case of violation or disputes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNHCR supports the Government of Kenya and works with its legal project partner, the <strong>Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK)<\/strong>, the judiciary and other state authorities to ensure access to justice and that legal assistance is provided to refugees and asylum-seekers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Response Services offered by RCK:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provision of legal advice, legal aid and representation in court&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monitoring of detention and arrest at police stations and border points&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drafting of child custody orders and other legal briefs&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advocacy and support in review of bills, laws, and regulations affecting asylum-seekers and refugees&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Legal counselling and pre-trial briefing for survivors of gender-based violence&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provision of timely legal interventions for refugees and asylum-seekers through continuous advocacy forums, legal trainings, etc.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f435071cc1dd989e5fa505115e22a418\" style=\"background-color:#cce3f2\">Select your location below to find legal assistance:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a refugee and asylum-seeker, you have a right to access legal remedies in case of violation or disputes. UNHCR supports the Government of Kenya and works with its legal project partner, the Refugee Consortium of Kenya (RCK), the judiciary and other state authorities to ensure access to justice and that legal assistance is provided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":267,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/sectioned.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions\/1845"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}