OWAAT means Cyprus has “Zero Tolerance” of Abuse Against Women. ❋ OWAAT goals are aimed at empowering all abused women to prevent their violence by protecting their life and privacy. OWAAT objectives guide women how to place the law in their hands, become self-represented litigants, and obtain access to court for no contact civil protections against their abuser. ❋ OWAAT encourages Cyprus courts to support OWAAT goals and objectives by adopting web-based “Self-help Forms” and instructions for self-represented litigants to print off, fill-in-the-blanks, e-sign and e-file in any Cyprus court with proper jurisdiction to grant civil equitable remedies, and as justice so requires. ❋ OWAAT provides court web-links as model, modern court web-based management systems. Many EU Member-state courts and all U.S. courts websites share Self-Help forms and related links to court provided civil protection complaint and instructions to assist self-represented litigants. ❋ OWAAT operated Complaint Clinics at the local level. Village of Kokkinotrimithia and Sisters of St. Joseph’s Convent, Old City, Nicosia, opened OWAAT Complaint Centers in October 2014. Community volunteers pool resources for their local OWAAT Complaint Center. Business leaders and professionals offer valuable time, expertise and specialized skills. Municipalities and nonprofits donate facilities and computer technology. Growing networks of OWAAT volunteers sustain Complaint Centers for abused women in their communities to learn how to assert their fundamental human rights in court, in their own voice. ❋ OWAAT IS A Sustainable Community-Court Collaboration NOW AVAILABLE IN GREEK

1. What is
ONE WOMAN AT A TIME (OWAAT) Cyprus?
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2. DID YOU KNOW . . .
YOU ARE A CITIZEN OF CYPRUS AND
EU MEMBER-STATE CITIZEN
ENTITLED TO MANY HUMAN RIGHTS.
• Cyprus is a Council of Europe member
• Cyprus secures and ensures your human rights and
freedoms protected under the European Convention on
Human Rights.

3. DID YOU KNOW . . .
EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• Supranational or international court established
by the European Convention on Human Rights
• Ensure Council of Europe member states do not
violate its citizen’s human rights and freedoms,
such as . . .

4. YOUR PROTECTED HUMAN
RIGHTS
• Right to access court.
• Right to self-representation in court.
• Right to life.
• Right to privacy.

5. • Right to equality of your rights in marriage.
• Right to found a family.
• Freedom of association, to choose your
association with private persons.
YOUR PROTECTED HUMAN
RIGHTS

6. DID YOU KNOW . . .
“VIOLENCE” IS NOT NECESSARY FOR
COURTS TO FIND “VIOLATION”
OF YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS.
• Unwanted contact, for example, does not
necessarily involve violence, yet may
violate your human rights.

7. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
• Access court yourself.
• Self-Help to file a civil action.
Lawyers are not necessary for courts to ensure
your human rights are secured to prevent
human rights violations.

8. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
• ASSERT UNWANTED CONTACT
VIOLATES YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS.
• Unwanted contact is not a protected
human right.

9. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
• Prevent unwanted contact that has or
is likely to harass, intimidate or
threaten you at home, work, on the
phone, via text or internet.

10. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
Prevent unwanted contact from
anyone, including
• your husband
• intimate partner
• parent of your children
• family members

11. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN. . .
• Protect yourself from threat of
unwanted contact
• File your own complaint
• Request a civil protection court order.

12. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
PREVENT VIOLATIONS OF YOUR
HUMAN RIGHTS WITHOUT
• Police report
• Hospital/medical record
• Attorney

13. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
DO-IT-YOURSELF
• JOIN THOUSANDS OF EU MEMBER STATE CITIZENS SELF-
REPRESENTED LITIGANTS
• “SELF-HELP”
• GAIN ACCESS COURT
• FILE COURT APPLICATION FOR IMMEDIATE NO CONTACT
ORDER
• PREVENT UNWANTED CONTACT IN VIOLATION OF YOUR
HUMAN RIGHTS

14. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .
• ACCEPT NO LESS THAN “ZERO TOLERANCE” OF UNWANTED
CONTACT FROM ANYONE
• BE A SELF-REPRESENTED LITIGANT
• FILE BY HAND YOUR OWN CIVIL PROTECTION COMPLAINT
• READ IN COURT UNDER OATH YOUR OWN REQUEST FOR
IMMEDIATE COURT ORDER PROTECTION
• PLACE THE LAW IN YOUR HANDS

15. DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN
BE . . .
ONE WOMAN AT A TIME

16. • ATTEND FREE OWAAT COMPLAINT CENTERS
• LEARN YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS;
• OBTAIN FREE GUIDANCE ABOUT SELF-HELP
ACCESS TO COURT;
• PLACE THE LAW IN YOUR HANDS TO
PREVENT UNWANTED CONTACT
DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN . . .

17. READ………...... ABOUT YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS
LEARN………… HOW TO SELF-HELP FOR YOUR HUMAN RIGHT
PROTECTIONS IN COURT
LOCATE………. OWAAT COMPLAINT CENTER NEAR YOU
DOWNLOAD…. FREE FILL-IN-THE-BLANK COMPLAINT FORMS
DISCOVER……. OWAAT SPONSORS, COMMUNITY
COLLABORATORS VOLUNTEERS
DONATE…….... OWAAT UNIC LAW CLINIC PROGRAMME
SUPPORT……... OTHER OWAAT / NGO COLLABORATIONS
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