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Southern
African Litigation Centre launch
Southern
African Human Rights Litigation Centre
June 10, 2005
The Open Society Initiative
for Southern Africa (OSISA) in partnership with the International Bar
Association (IBA) announce the launch on June 20, 2005 of the Southern
African Litigation Centre (SALC).
The
Centre will be located in Johannesburg and will assist lawyers in various
Southern African states in litigating specific human rights, public interest
and constitutional cases within their respective domestic jurisdictions.
The Centre will be staffed by resource people who are able to provide
expert support to lawyers litigating on these issues in the region. They
will do so by providing training, mentoring and facilities, thus promoting
the effective implementation of human rights in the region.
In particular,
the Centre will:
- Provide on-going
support and assistance to lawyers in the region who are in the process
of litigating human rights, constitutional and public interest cases;
- Support, assist
in, and identify, prospective cases allowing for timely preparation
and resolution of cases;
- Provide regular
training to the legal profession within the respective jurisdictions
on constitutional, human rights and democracy issues;
- Engage all members
of the legal profession, including the judiciary, on issues of constitutionalism,
human rights and democracy and provide assistance where required;
- Promote awareness
of human rights litigation frontiers and capacity-building possibilities
and stimulate advocacy for law reform, human rights and constitutionalism.
Further, the Centre
will aim to:
- Enable the skills
and resources within the respective jurisdictions allowing lawyers to
initiate human rights, public interest and constitutional cases that
they would not have otherwise undertaken;
- Develop regional
lawyers’ interest in involvement in human rights, public interest and
constitutional litigation;
- Establish a repository
of up-to-date information on contemporary human rights, public interest
and constitutional issues in the region generally and litigation thereon
specifically;
- Provide a forum
through which lawyers in the region can exchange information and enter
into communities and networks of mutual interest and support.
- Facilitate the
development of regional networks of lawyers’ organizations and other
initiatives aimed at strengthening rule of law, constitutionalism and
human rights.
- The provision of
training and support for lawyers at the forefront of human rights cases
will be a unique development for the region.
Contact: Nicole Fritz,
Executive Director
Southern African Human Rights Litigation Centre
Tel +27 11 403 3414
Mobile +27 82 452 3909
Email: NicoleF@osiafrica.org
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