Law for The Poor

The use of the law and legal systems by disadvantaged people to contest the unfair
distribution of power and resources is a real-world phenomenon that predates and
exists independently of international law and justice assistance.
Study and Research
Tool To Ensure Statutory Intervention
Particularly in circumstances where traditional power resources, in terms of bargaining
power and worker solidarity, are not firmly established, Use of the legal
mobilisation clearly offers important additional tactics.
Mass Mobilization
Mass Mobilization (also known as social mobilization or popular mobilization)
refers to mobilization of civilian population as part of contentious politics. Mass
mobilization is often used by grassroots-based social movements,
including revolutionary movements, but can also become a tool of elites and
the state itself.
The process usually takes the form of large public gatherings such as mass meetings,
marches, parades, processions and demonstrations. Those gatherings usually are part
of a protest action.
Mass mobilization is defined as a process that engages and motivates a wide range of
partners and allies at national and local levels to raise awareness of and demand for a
particular development objective through face-to-face dialogue. Members of institutions,
community networks, civic and religious groups and others work in a coordinated way to
reach specific groups of people for dialogue with planned messages. In other words,
social mobilization seeks to facilitate change through a range of players engaged in
interrelated and complementary efforts.
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