LAC Newsletters

2000 - 2001

LAC Newsletter Issue #1 - May 2000 [PDF]

• Lead Story: Legal Assistance Centre phases out its advice offices
• What is the Legal Assistance Centre? Management and Coordinators
• New AIDS Law Director: AIDS Law Unit lives up to challenges
• International Visitors: Carol Bellamy (UNICEF), Beatrice Ambags (Netherlands Ambassador to Namibia), Kari Karenko (Finland Ambassador to Namibia)
• Men’s Conference to end violence against women
• Citizenship is a human right
• Police manual on human rights welcomed
• Crime and punishment of children: An overview of the LAC’s Juvenile Justice Project
• Communal Land Reform Bill fails rural women
• The role of the trainee legal practitioners in the legal field
• Parliament passes Rape Bill

LAC Newsletter Issue #2 - August 2000 [PDF]

• Lead Story: Haindongo’s victory makes legal history
• First local observance of UN’s International Day against Torture a huge success
• LAC defends torture victims
• Refugees have rights in Namibia
• Survey tests employers’ awareness of HIV/AIDS Code for the workplace
• Report recommends modernization of our divorce law
• New paralegal training starts
• Essay competition invites young men’s views on ending violence against women
• Update on men’s moment to combat violence against women
• Durban’s AIDS conference: Is proper medication finally coming to Africa?
• New Legal Practitioner at LAC
• Statement from the Strategic Human Rights Lawyering Conference
• Now Available: Booklet on medical issues for rape survivors
• 2000 NAMLEX Update
• Gender and Land Survey

LAC Newsletter Issue #3 - December 2000 [PDF]

• Lead Story: LAC’s Human Rights Manual to be used in Sierra Leone
• Beyond 2000: LAC will continue with its mission
• HIV Charter of Rights: To be launched on World AIDS Day – Dec. 1
• We’re in for a major shock: HIV AIDS
• We bade farewell to Clinton and Johann: Staff departures
• Appointment of Toni Hancox to HURICON
• Gender and Land Survey update
• Delme’s internship at the LRC: LAC sends Delme Cupico on 2 month internship
• Ruusa attends Trail Advocacy Seminar in Botswana
• Seminar on Political Parties and Elections
• Workshop and public discussion on date violence
• Human Rights Day Celebrations
• Essay competition winners receive prices
• Free at last!: The Story of Titus Amakali
• Breaking the chains: Inmate wins claim
• Court Rejects Government view of the state of emergency in Caprivi
• HIV/AIDS employment Survey: full results and recommendations released
• Community Paralegal Volunteers have key role in justice system
• Domestic Violence: drawing on South African experiences
• LAC Contributes to: International 10-point plan for juvenile justice
• Children in conflict with the law
• Homophobia and the rights of gays and lesbians
• The changing face of administrative justice: Immigration Selection Board a case in point
• NGO-Week: Towards a Partnership for Social Development and Empowerment

LAC Newsletter Issue #4 - December 2001 (currently unavailble)

• Lead story: Hands off the judiciary!
• Juvenile Justice Program: Ensure that all children are treated according to international guidelines, the Namibian constitution and Namibian laws
• Crime Education: prevention through education
• In short: New staff members at the LAC
• Art therapy: workshops inspire counsellors
• Recent court decisions: Sikunda’s Case; Home Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo in contempt of court; Poverty no excuse for crime, says judge; Discrimination laws about inheritance rights challenged; Herero and Himba leaders demand recognition; Blow to gay rights; Access to justice based on economic status?
• Update on community paralegal training project
• Gender equality in family law: Conference on Marriage, Divorce, Inheritance and Property Rights under Customary Law
• LAC – UNAM Cooperation
• Advocacy workshop for people living with HIV/AIDS
• Press Statements: Amnesty International responds to verbal attacks on gays and lesbians; Legal Assistance Centre condemns homophobia; UN calls for joint efforts to fight TB – World TB Day held on 24 March
• Piece of Mind: The austerity of tabulated legalism: a comment on the recent decision in Chair person of the Immigration Selection Board v E E Frank and Another
• Piece of mind: Government commitment to rule of law in jeopardy
• Piece of mind: Q & A

LAC Newsletter Issue #5 - August 2001 [PDF]

• Lead story: Harassment of Kxoe community in West Caprivi continues
• Observing UN international Day Against Torture – June 26
• Abraham Gariseb remember the story of Aukeigas
• Human rights training for NDF
• In short: Financial boost, 13th anniversary, new staff, farewells ect.
• Proclamation 15 of 1928 still causes hardships & Update on community paralegal training
• Course on UN Convention on Rights of the Child attended in Sweden
• Namibians march for human rights
• Education on walls: murals on domestic violence
• UN’s Special Session on HIV/AIDS & the LAC’s presentation there
• Namibia still to ratify International Criminal Court Statute
• Constitutional protection of sexual orientation
• World conference on racism coming up in South Africa
• Our duty to claim child maintenance
• Essay competition: topic: torture

LAC Newsletter Issue #6 - October 2001 [PDF]

• Lead story: Love and Respect: LAC’s nationwide campaign against domestic violence.
• Legal victory for press freedom
• In Short: New NANGOF director;  interns; HIV center; prisons rapporteur ect.
• What have we learned from the World Conference Against Racism?
• Breaking the silence on the Slave Trade
• ‘Baboons’ at the workplace
• Recent court decisions: Chains cases settled; Prisoners win damages claims etc.
• Bringing people with disabilities on board with paralegal training
• Juvenile Justice Project expands pre-trial diversion options with modern rites of passage
• Civil society Conference on Land Reform coming up
• The world revisits its commitment to children with global campaign: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• The Battle for the minds of our boys
• How serious is child labour in Namibia?
• Toni at Oxford
• Essay competition on HIV/AIDS

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