Every day, around six women reach out to our organisation for free legal advice through office visits, phone calls, emails, WhatsApp messages, and social media referrals. Our two dedicated paralegals in our Legal Advice Unit are highly skilled and provide essential support across all five of our focus areas. For only R100, you can fund a legal advice consultation, giving one woman the access to justice she deserves.

By funding a workshop, you help us to:

• Enhance the capacity of community activists, women’s rights defenders, and first responders by educating them on legal advancements, including those driven by our organisation, so they can effectively inform women about their rights.
• Creating a direct link between our organisation and women in communities, ensuring that the support we provide reaches those who need it most.

In South Africa, women face grave violations of their rights to safety and dignity, which impacts negatively on women and society at large. We attend to cases that combat the infringement of these rights and improves the access of women and (girl) children to state protection from violence, particularly sexual and domestic violence.

The Centre addresses the lack of feminist education in legal studies, which leads to gender bias in our courts. Our Youth Programmes bridge this gap by creating a cohort of African feminist legal practitioners in South Africa. Our programmes include the Feminist Clinic, Candidate Attorney Programme, and an Internship Programme.

1. Women’s rights to live free from violence
2. Women’s rights to just and favorable working conditions
3. Sexual and reproductive health rights
4. Equality in relationships
5. Women’s rights to land, housing, and property