Legal Assistance Centre-Namibia

PRESS ROOM

UN FINDS NAMIBIA WANTING IN ADHERING TO INTERNATIONAL ANTI-RACISM LAWS
20 August 2008: A LAC-led submission on continuing race and gender discrimination is drawing international attentional from the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the United Nations.

ANNOUNCING THE RELEASE OF A NEW MONOGRAPH SERIES
24 June 2008: The Gender Research & Advocacy Project released a new monograph series that focuses on important gender-related issues that are hot topics in Namibia’s legal landscape.

TRANSPARENCY IN LAND ADMINISTRATION - A CLOSER LOOK
20/06/2008 - WHY should Namibians concern themselves with a transparent land administrative system? The answer is obvious.

STAND UP FOR ZIMBABWE DURING AFRICA DAY
23/05/2008 - The Legal Assistance Centre is calling on all Namibians to stand up for the end to the violence, to stand up for justice and to stand up for accountability on Africa Day, May 25.

SHIP CARRYING ZIMBABWE-BOUND WEAPONS EXPECTED TO ENTER NAMIBIAN PORT
21/04/2008: The Legal Assistance Centre is calling on all concerned citizens in Namibia to raise their voice against a Chinese vessel – the An Yue Jiang – loaded with weapons, from docking in Namibia's shores.

LAC LAUNCHES REPORT INVESTIGATING WOMEN'S LAND RIGHTS
10/04/2008: The Legal Assistance Centre is calling on the Ministry of Land and Resettlement to embark on an agressive information campaign to educate land right holders about their rights and to end property grabbing of homesteads from widows.

LAC ALARMED BY LACK OF ZIMBABWEAN ELECTION OBSERVERS
26/03/2008: The Legal Assistance Centre learned with disappointment of the failure, refusal or neglect by the Zimbabwean Government to process the application of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Lawyers Association to observe the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe.

HEALTH EXPERTS CALL FOR "MAJOR SHIFT" IN GLOBAL AIDS RESPONSE
29/11/2007: More than 30 leading AIDS organizations, including the Legal Assistance Centre, today called for a major shift in the global response to HIV and AIDS, issuing an unprecedented joint declaration on the need to put legal and human rights protections at the center of HIV efforts.

SEX IN JAILS: FACT NOT FICTION
01/11/2007:The time has come to scrap the common law of sodomy to allow for the distribution of condoms in prison. It is increasingly clear that the common law crim of sodomy does not have any place in our modern society and runs counter to our Constitution.

ANALYSIS OF THE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURAL LAND REFORM PROCESS
22/09/2005: This report addresses topics such as the introduction of land tax on commercial agricultural land, expropriation of commercial agricultural land, the Affirmative Action Loan Scheme, the Resettlement Programme, the Emerging Commercial Farmers Support Programme and foreign donor support on the land reform process.

LAC CONCERNED ABOUT GROWING CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
04/02/2005: The Legal Assistance Centre is deeply concerned about the growing problem of child sexual abuse in Namibia – not just the high profile cases which have occupied national attention in the last week, but also the multitude of cases of child rape which take place on a horrifyingly regular basis.