Microjusticia: Case studies

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Access to finance (Bolivia) Juana Huayller has lost her husband recently. Now, as a widow, she needs to earn her living. She wanted to open a little coffee place near the market. She has approached a microcredit institution where an officer explained the requirements to get a loan. Among those, she needed a death certificate of her husband. This certificate will allow her to have a preferential interest rate.
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Access to insurance, social benefits and voting (Bolivia) Hilaria is a mother of 5 children. Since ten years she has been trying to obtain her birth certificate. She did not manage however, since there are inconsistencies between the data in the registry books and on her documentation. On top of this, there is an error in her mother’s registration as well: the mother is registered as Juan instead of Juana.
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Access to social benefits (Perú) Dionisia is a young mother of three children. She is a farmer. For nine years she has not been able to get the birth certificates of her children because her name and surname are wrongly written in the birth registry book.

Without the birth certificates of her children, she cannot participate in the public social program called “Juntos” (together), which provides financial support and social services to poor families with small children.
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Access to Producers Associations (Perú) The peasant community Molina Kapia is located in the Chucuito province of Puno. In Peru all communities and their elected leaders need to be registered. Without registration, they cannot participate in Producers Associations. The problem for this community was that the previous director had died. Because of this, the community could not comply with the required procedure. For more than 2 months the community did not manage to solve this problem.
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Access to citizenship (Serbia - Croatia ) Biljana Buljevic is originally from Gracac, Croatia, but she now lives as a refugee in a collective center in Kladovo, Serbia. She has no regular income. Because she did not have any formal documentation, she was unable to get a job. Since she did not have any Croatian documents, she could not start the procedure to obtain the Serbian citizenship – necessary to obtain any type of legal work.
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Access to special pension(Serbia - Croatia ) Mirjana Posinak is from Croatia, but now lives in Backa Palanka, Serbia. As she suffers from a serious disease, she is not able to earn her own living and depends on her pension. She is a Serbian citizen, but cannot apply for a state pension as she is not old enough. Before, in Croatia, she has worked many years. This would give her the right to obtain a special pension, but she can not proove this.
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Welcome to Microjustice for all

Microjustice makes legal services accessible, affordable and reliable.

Microjustice is justice for all, enabling people to exercise the rights they have. For business, for labour, for property, for pensions, for all the basic needs that make people independent and dignified. Microjustice assists people to make the law work for them.

ILA Microjustice for All helps organisations in the field directly to set up microjustice services. We provide a handbook and assist with practical advice and training.

At this moment, the country programmes initiated by International Legal Alliances (ILA) Microjustice for All assist many hundreds of people per month to access their rights. More people around the world begin to realise the importance of justice for development. The Microjustice work is starting to gain momentum.

ILA Microjustice for All is a small coordinating and networking organisation that relies entirely on donations. For the extension of the Microjustice work we constantly seek financial resources.

 
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