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Compensatory Women\u27s Rights Legal Education in Eastern Europe: The Women\u27s Human Rights Training Institute
To compensate for the absence/minimization of women\u27s rights in the law faculty curriculum in post-socialist states, in 2002 a coalition of women\u27s rights NGOs, funded by OSI, developed a Women\u27s Human Rights Training Institute (WHRTI) in Sofia, Bulgaria. Now embarking on its sixth cycle and having graduated more than 100 lawyers (mostly working in NGOs in post-socialist states), WHRTI has developed a women\u27s rights legal education and training program triad consisting of feminist legal theory, women\u27s rights legal practice, and feminist legal pedagogy. The goal of the program is to educate and train lawyers to understand and use various domestic, regional, and international fora to bring cases of sex/gender inequality. WHRTI\u27s program has measurable and qualitative impacts and can be tailored to meet the need for compensatory education in other regions where a women\u27s rights educational deficiency exists in law faculties\u27 curricula