in particular the use of community level paralegals legal empowerment programmes and the provision of free legal aid has had a positive impact on access to justice for women especially in rural areas and for women of limited means in morocco social assistance is provided regarding family matters under the supervision of a comittee w ithin the ministry of justice with the introduction of a mediation system for families in lebanon women can work in a legal profession and are on equal footing with men they have full legal capacity to testify and to work in the judiciary supreme court and military courts