Access to justice during Covid-19: Stories from the frontline
Covid-19 has redrawn the boundaries of where we feel safe. National lockdowns during the early stages of the pandemic forced people to retreat to the …
Interested in Women’s Rights? Join the next meeting of our Women’s Rights Group
Join us at the first re-convening of Lawyers Against Poverty’s Women’s Rights Group on Wednesday 23rd June (12pm UK). LAP’s Women’s Rights Group has been …
Celebrating Pioneers on International Women’s Day
It is impossible to ignore the ways in which Covid-19 has exacerbated gender inequality around the world. But as we recognise the scale of the …
Report on Lawyers Against Poverty and our guest speakers event on 14 November 2019
Report on Lawyers Against Poverty and guest speakers event, November 2019 On 14 November Lawyers Against Poverty hosted an evening of talks on the topic: …
FGM
According to the World Health Organisation, it is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), …
Event Report: Advancing Women’s Rights Through Strategic Litigation and Other Tools
We heard firstly from Naomi Passman, one of the members of our women’s rights working group. As an introduction, she shared with us a series …
Upcoming: Advancing Women’s Rights Through Strategic Litigation and Other Tools
Many women in the world today suffer disadvantage and discrimination, marginalisation and violence. One in three will experience some form of domestic violence in their …
Rohingya Women and Girls
As at 1 August 2018, close to one million Rohingyas have fled from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, seeking refuge from a military campaign …
Victory for Mary Sunday
On 17 May 2018, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the Court of Justice) ruled in favour of the …
First ever student hackathon!
On 9th December 2017 Lawyers Against Poverty held our first ever student Hackathon! This 12 hour event, held at Oxford Brookes University, focused on developing …