What are my employee’s rights? What should I do if I am a victim of domestic violence? What to do after getting fired? How do I claim a disability pension? What do I need to do to get my child’s birth certificate? Am I eligible for legal aid?
These are some of the frequently asked legal questions that have been answered in the twelve handouts on different topics related to Free Legal Aid, prepared and published in North Macedonia to help legal professionals and citizens in North Macedonia better understand their rights and freedoms concerning the Free Legal Aid. The handouts will be of everyday use and of the utmost help to legal aid providers to do their job and give the best possible advice. They are developed in a reader-friendly format, enabling the citizens to easily find information and answers to their most frequently asked legal questions themselves. The handouts cover the following twelve topics:
Dissability (Macedonian / Albanian)
Employment and protection at the workplace (Macedonian / Albanian)
Domestic violence (Macedonian / Albanian)
Marriage and divorce and municipality services (Macedonian / Albanian)
Family and children (Macedonian / Albanian)
Services, benefits and payment (Macedonian / Albanian)
A guide to Free Legal Aid (Macedonian / Albanian)
Property issues (Macedonian / Albanian)
Termination of employment and unemployment benefits (Macedonian / Albanian)
Consumer protection and debts (Macedonian / Albanian)
Discrimination (Macedonian / Albanian)
Social protection rights (Macedonian / Albanian)
The handouts are written in a clear and simple language, easy to read for everyone and available in hard copy and online in Macedonian and Albanian languages. They will be widely distributed in order to reach out to the most vulnerable groups and smaller local communities.
The handouts are developed under the awareness raising campaign on FLA supported by the action “Supporting enhanced access to higher quality Free Legal Aid services in North Macedonia” which is part of the joint European Union/Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”.