The access to the justice of the peasant-indigenous population:A survey in the free Legal Office of the Catholic University of Cuenca, extensión Cañar.

Abstract

This research study carries out a retrospective analysis in the period (2013-2015) during which the proyect of linkage to society was implemented in a concrete way: Free of charge Legal Office of the Catholic University of Cuenca, Cañar extension. The main objective of this work is to analyze the way in which its management has contributed to guarantee the right to access justice in the vulnerable and low economic resource sectors of the Cañar canton, which has transformed realities of exclusion and discrimination, within the human rights, gender and intercultural frameworks, as well as of principles, standards and guidelines of equality-equity and that of linkage to the community applicable to higher education in Ecuador. For this purpose, a descriptive-exploratory research was carried out having as population sample the users attendedin the refered period and on the bases of the legal office records. The study includes three moments: a) data collection and evaluation; b) theoretical foundation; c) information tabulation and definition of social and management indicators. The results allow to conclude that, the Legal Office, has been constituded as an advice and sponsorship alternative that strengthens the processes of acces to justice for those who seek the restitution of their rights, paticularly of poor peasant-indigenous women in rural area of the Canton, both for the free nature of the services and for the efficiency reflected in the number of the cases attended and resolved.