Namibia: LAC Marks 25 Years of Advocating Women and Children's Rights

21 February 2018

Windhoek — The Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) is celebrating a quarter of a century of advocating and raising awareness on the rights of women and children, as well as gender equality in Namibia. LAC's Directorate for Gender Research & Advocacy Project (GR&AP) was established in 1993 to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women through legal research, law reform and related advocacy work.

Narrating the organization's achievements through a press statement issued yesterday, Toni Hancox, director of LAC, said in the past years the organization has managed to produce several major research studies and given input on legislation on a wide variety of issues relating to women and children, including gender-based violence, family law and child protection.

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