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Legal aid activities play an important role in protecting the legal interests of people, especially the poor and disadvantaged groups in society. Thereby, helping people raise awareness, comply well with the Partys guidelines and policies, the States policies and laws, eliminate hunger, reduce poverty, and ensure social justice. A communication session on legal aid for people - Photo: VGP/BP Since the legal aid system was established (1997) until now, hundreds of thousands of poor people have enjoyed free legal aid services through many forms such as: Legal advice, having legal aid practitioners participate in proceedings, outside legal representation to protect legal rights and interests; In addition, participating in grassroots communication sessions to guide governments books and laws related to peoples lives (land law, insurance law, labor, social security,...), are provided with legal brochures, handbooks to guide requests for legal aid, etc. Through legal aid, legal aid recipients have their legal rights and interests protected, contributing to ensuring human rights, civil rights, fair rights in access to the law, access to justice, fairness in litigation and trial. Before the results and contributions that legal aid has achieved in recent times, legal aid has been recognized by the Party and State and identified legal aid as one of the policies to implement 03 national target programs: National target program for socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period 2021-2030, phase I: from 2021 to 2025, national target program for sustainable poverty reduction in the period 2021-2025 and the National Target Program to build new rural areas for the period 2021-2025. With the attention of the Party, State, Ministries, branches and localities, legal aid work for the poor and vulnerable is deployed synchronously and uniformly nationwide, with a focus on direct support activities for the poor and vulnerable such as: implementing legal aid cases; communication about legal aid at the grassroots level; Improve the capacity of the team of legal aid implementers, the team of legal aid participants... Typically, in Thanh Hoa province, every year, the Provincial State Legal Aid Center deploys legal aid activities for vulnerable subjects, the poor, and people in difficult circumstances; Strengthen communication activities, establish a hotline on legal aid, widely notify the commune-level Peoples Committee, relevant agencies and organizations and assign people to directly receive and process information. The Center has provided information boards about legal aid posted at commune-level Peoples Committees, especially difficult villages and hamlets, and at the headquarters of the agency conducting legal proceedings. Along with that, the center has organized legal aid communication sessions in places considered low-lying areas in terms of access to the law in the province. In communicating about legal aid, staff of the State Legal Aid Center go to households families, directly receiving questions and solving problems of people. People are practically related to life, daily life, marriage, family, land disputes... Grassroots communication activities are conducted in the following forms: Propaganda in villages, markets, community cultural activities. RELATED NEWS Propaganda content is provided by assistants, experts, and collaborators in villages and hamlets focusing on legal education, implementation of regimes and policies to be enjoyed; help people know about the right to free legal aid. It can be seen that for the poor and ethnic minorities, peoples awareness, especially awareness of the law, is still very limited. Violations of the law due to lack of understanding of the law also occur a lot in areas such as land, forestry, criminal, civil, marriage and family... In some places people lack information about the law, many people do not know about their right to legal aid or are still afraid to approach legal aid... Therefore, communication and legal consulting work is very meaningful, helping people improve their understanding of the law, thereby actively complying with the regulations. Contribute to local activities. Bich Phuong
