Legal Assistance Centre

SPOTLIGHT PUBLICATIONS:

20th ANNIVERSARY REPORT
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL

Human Rights For All

Read about the LAC's history and meet some of the clients who have benefited by standing up for their rights.

GENDER & THE LABOUR ACT
Preventing Underage DrinkingLearn how women are protected in the workplace. This easy-to-read guide focuses on pregnancy, maternity leave, sexual harassment and unfair discrimination.

RIGHT TO HEALTH
Right to Health

Namibians are guaranteed the right to the highest possible standard of physical health. Learn more about the right to health in this easy-to-read publication.

Legal Assistance Centre - A new law on Children's Rights

WHAT'S NEW

Economic Crisis a Human Rights Time Bomb
28 May 2009: The world is sitting on a social, political and economic time bomb fueled by an unfolding human rights crisis, stated a leading human rights activist during the launch of Amnesty International Report 2009: State of the World’s Human Rights.

Women Claim 'Forcibly' Sterilised at Hospitals
28 May 2009: Almost 20 HIV-infected women claim that doctors at State hospitals forced them to get sterilised. The LAC is involved in 19 cases, reported since February last year, in which doctors and nurses allegedly decided to sterilise HIV-infected women.

Gam Farmers Face Civil Suit
20 May 2009: The LAC is assisting the Nyae-Nyae Conservancy and its community in suing farmers from the Gam area for up to N$537 700 in damages. The farmers invaded the protected area, reserved by law for the Ju/’hoansi San people by cutting through a veterinary cordon fence.

Opinion: What 'I Do' Could Mean if You Are Not Namibian
- 08 May 2009


MISSION STATEMENT
We, the Legal Assistance Centre, being a public interest law centre, collectively strive to make the law accessible to those with the least access, through education, law reform, research, litigation, legal advice, representation and lobbying, with the ultimate aim of creating and maintaining a human rights culture in Namibia.


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