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Women’s Month 2016: Seeking a protection order

Empowering Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence One Protection Order at a Time Any conversation surrounding South African women’s empowerment would be incomplete without a thorough discussion of domestic violence, as women’s inability to assert power and control over their lives, in a nation with the highest rates of domestic violence, is often the direct […]

Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations discussed at the African Commission

On the 6 April 2016, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) held a side event at the 58th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia. The side event discussed the United Nations proposed treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. The side event […]