Legal Centre for Gender Based Violence Association (trading name: Lawyers against Abuse (LvA))
Our Mission
Lawyers against Abuse (LvA) is a non-profit organisation that was established in 2011 to fill this gap. LvA’s mission is to ensure GBV victims and survivors have meaningful access to justice by providing specialised legal services and psychosocial support, engaging state actors and empowering communities. Over the last 15 years, LvA has cultivated an innovative and integrated approach to combatting GBV that works deeply in individual communities to provide comprehensive support to individual victims of abuse while also strengthening the local justice system’s response to GBV at a systemic level. We operate three walk-in Centres based in Diepsloot, Orange Farm and Hillbrow, three communities in Johannesburg known for extremely high GBV prevalence rates, poor service delivery and high levels of poverty and unemployment. Our work focuses on the following four programme areas: • Direct Legal Services: providing nuanced legal services to assist clients in securing protection orders and pursuing criminal cases of sexual violence and assault; • Psychosocial Support: providing trauma debriefing, individual and group-based therapy and counselling, shelter placements, empowerment initiatives and other forms of psychosocial support; • State Actor Engagement: engaging with key state actors to strengthen the local justice systems’ response to GBV by building capacity and creating accountability in instances of misconduct; and • Community Engagement: conducting targeted outreach and workshops for community members to raise awareness of GBV, legal rights and remedies and LvA’s services.
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Lawyers against Abuse (LvA)
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Stand 897, Buffalo Street, Extension 2, Diepsloot. Johannesburg, 2189
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