KEY PUBLICATIONS
GENDER RESEARCH & ADVOCACY PROJECT

Guide to Combating of Domestic Violence Act, released in 2007

The following documents are available via pdf download or by visiting
the LAC office in Windhoek.

Guides
• Guide to the Married Person’s Equality Act
• Guide to the Maintenance Act (pdf)
• Guide to the Combating of Rape Act
• Guide to the Combating of Domestic Violence Act (pdf)

Guidelines
• Guidelines for Service Providers on Domestic Violence (pdf)
• Guidelines for Service Providers on Rape (pdf)

Unravelling Taboos, released in 2007

Books
• Advocacy in Action (pdf)
• Unravelling Taboos (pdf)
• The Meanings of Inheritance (pdf)
• So Cry the Abused Mother & Child (Poetry Book)

Monographs
• Monograph 1: Baby-dumping and Infanticide (pdf)
• Monograph 2: Help Wanted: Sex Workers in Katutura, Namibia (pdf)
• Monograph 3: Stalking: Proposed New Legislation for Namibia (pdf)
• Monograph 4: Alcohol and Youths: Suggestions for Law Reform (in press)

How to Claim Child Maintenance, released in 2008

Comics
• How to Claim Child Maintenance (pdf)

Community empowerment
• Key Gender Laws: A training manual for community activists
(produced in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo and Otjiherero)
• Addressing Gender-Based violence through Community Empowerment (produced in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo and Otjiherero)
• Gender and the Law: Radio Show Scripts
• Training Session on Corporal Punishment

Preventing Underage Drinking, released in 2008

Short information guides and pamphlets
• Preventing Underage Drinking: A Guide to Individual and
Community Action (pdf)
• Gender and the Labour Act 11 of 2007 (pdf)
• How to Create a Non-Profit Group (pdf)
(including a sample constitution)
• Pocket guides produced in English, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo and Otjiherero
a. Pocket Guide to the Rape Act (pdf)
b. Pocket Guide to the Combating of Domestic Violence (pdf)
c. Pocket Guide to the Married Person’s Equality Act (pdf)
d. Pocket Guide to the Maintenance Act (pdf)

Rape in Namibia, released in 2007

Summaries of the law in Braille
• Guide to the Maintenance Act
• Guide to the Married Person’s Equality Act

Research
• School Policy on Learner Pregnancy in Namibia:
Background to Reform (pdf)
• Protection for Women in Namibia’s Communal Land Reform Act:
Is it Working? (pdf)
• Withdrawn: A study of Rape Case Withdrawals
(to be published in early 2009)
• Rape In Namibia (pdf)

Other
• Sexual abuse directory (pdf)

Annual Report
2008 GR+AP Annual Report (pdf-only)

Read GR&AP newspaper articles