BLAST

BLAST envisions a society based on the rule of law in which every individual particularly the poor and the disadvantaged women and children access to justice and their Human rights are respected and protected.

BLAST's mission is to make the legal system accessible to the poor and the disadvantaged.

In view of the above vision and mission statement, specific objectives of BLAST are:

1.

To secure that the operation of the legal system promotes access to justice and in particular to provide free legal aid by suitable scheme or in any other way and to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen or person by reason of economic or other disabilities

2.

To administer a Trust Fund for establishing and maintaining legal aid and services Units, to be supported by the grants from the Trust;

3.

To establish legal aid/assistance and human rights protection Units in the Bar Associations and in different localities of the country, including rural areas

4.

To conduct special training programmes through which relevant skills and expertise can be imparted to lawyer, activists and others

5.

To co-ordinate the works of the Units with other bodies, including NGOs working in related fields

6.

To publish books on various legal subjects, law journal/s containing amongst others, original research article on the various legal subjects, and /or bulletins which may contain reports about such activities of the Bar Council and Bar Associations and other matters which are useful to lawyers;

7.

To promote improved legal education, in particular which would promote awareness of lawyers responsibilities to providing legal aid to the poor and disadvantaged and to promote, establish and maintain national institutions for legal education and/or training institutes to impart legal education and training;

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To organize seminars, symposiums, extension lectures on various law subjects for advocates, teachers, law students and advocates and their participation in international conferences, workshops and training and educational programmes.