Legal Resources Centre Cape Town

Legal services for qualifying vulnerable and marginalised clients; walk-in services + impact litigation **Areas of work (all offices):** - **Access to land and housing** — evictions, land reform, tenure security for farm workers, rural communities, and urban poor - **Women's and children's rights** — including strategic litigation on GBV-related matters; access to safety, shelter, and justice for women and children; the right to live free from violence - **Refugee and migrant rights** — legal services for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons (walk-in clinics; advise on documentation, rights, referrals) - **Education rights** — access to schooling, scholar transport, discrimination in education - **Social and economic rights** — access to health care, water, food - **Impact litigation and law reform** — landmark Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal cases on all of the above - **Community workshops and legal empowerment** — teaching ordinary South Africans how to assert their constitutional rights - **Walk-in services** — direct legal advice for individuals (Cape Town, JHB, Durban, Makhanda) **GBV relevance for survivors:** - Women and children experiencing DV who face compounding legal problems (eviction, loss of housing, custody) - Women in rural communities and farm worker households where violence intersects with tenure insecurity and poverty - Refugee and migrant women who have experienced conflict-related sexual violence and face documentation and status barriers - Strategic litigation that advances women's rights at a constitutional level — setting precedents that protect all women nationally - Community legal education empowering women to know and assert their rights