Legal Assistance Centre

The Legal Assistance Centre in Windhoek, Namibia, is a human rights, public interest law firm that is a non-governmental institution[1] and receives donor funding.

The organization was established in 1988 during the apartheid era to litigate on behalf of people who were oppressed by the government.[2] According to the newspaper The Namibian, the lawyers and paralegals who opened the centre "were immediately flooded with cases from people complaining about human rights abuses" and hundreds of court cases were launched against the apartheid South African government[3] [4].

The centre continues to conduct public interest litigation[5] and expanded its mandate to incorporate public human rights education,[6] research, law reform and free legal advice.[5] Its work is guided by a board of directors.

Since Namibia's independence, the organization's areas of focus have included:

References

  1. ↑ Guide to Civil Society in Namibia (PDF). Windhoek: Namibian Institute for Democracy. 2009. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-999-16-860-9-7.
  2. ↑ Welch, Claude E., Jr. (1995). Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Roles and Strategies of Nongovernmental Organizations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0812217803.
  3. ↑ Tjombe, Norman (2004-07-12). "The LAC: 16 years of promoting human rights". The Namibian. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
  4. ↑ "The Status of Human Rights Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa Namibia". University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library.
  5. 1 2 Horn and Bosl, Nico and Anton (2008). The Independence of the Judiciary in Namibia. Konrad Adenauer Foundation. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-99916-0-807-5.
  6. ↑ Centre, University of Namibia Human Rights and Documentation; Unesco; Namibia), United Nations Information Centre (Windhoek; Africa, Unesco Social Sciences Programme in Southern (1995). Human rights education and advocacy in Namibia in the 1990s: a tapestry of perspectives : a collection of papers submitted at a Workshop on Education, Training, and Information Concerning Human Rights in Namibia, held in Windhoek, Namibia, 12 to 13 May 1993. New Namibia Books. ISBN 9789991631394.
  7. ↑ Nakuta, John (2011). The Justice Sector and the Rule of Law in Namibia. Namibia Institute for Democracy. pp. 12, 14, 47. ISBN 978 - 99916 - 865 - 6 - 1.
  8. ↑ Bradley, M.T. (2005). "Civil society, emigration and democracy in Africa: an alternative proposition". The Western Journal of Black Studies. 29 (9): 540+.
  9. 1 2 Nashuuta, Lahja (2018-02-21). "Namibia: LAC Marks 25 Years of Advocating Women and Children's Rights". New Era (Windhoek). Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  10. ↑ LaFont, Suzanne; Hubbard, Dianne (2007). Unravelling Taboos: Gender and Sexuality in Namibia. Gender Research & Advocacy Project, Legal Assistance Centre. ISBN 9789994561230.
  11. ↑ Dumba, Linda (2010-10). "Namibia: litigating the cases of sterilization without informed consent of HIV-positive women". HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review. 15 (1): 50–51. ISSN 1712-624X. PMID 21413628. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. ↑ "Land is Life, Conservancy is Life.": The San and the N‡a Jaqna Conservancy, Tsumkwe District West, Namibia. Basler Afrika Bibliographien. 2018-08-02. ISBN 9783906927022.
  13. ↑ Bukurura, S.H. (2002). "Emerging Trends in the Protection of Prisoners' Rights in Southern Africa". African Human Rights Journal. 2 (1): 92–109.
  14. ↑ Falk, T., Kirk, M., Lohmann, D., Kruger, B., Hüttich, C., & Kamukuenjandje, R. (2017). "The profits of excludability and transferability in redistributive land reform in central Namibia". Development Southern Africa. 34 (3): 314–329. doi:10.1080/0376835X.2016.1269633.
  15. ↑ "Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in Namibia" (PDF). Sister Namibia. Jul 2004.
  16. ↑ Bernstein, Mary; Marshall, Anna-Maria (2009-09-01). Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814791417.
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