Welcome to the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC)
SALC promotes and advances human rights and the rule of law in Southern Africa, primarily through strategic litigation and capacity-strengthening support to lawyers and grassroots organisations. SALC also provides small grants to community-based organisations.
SALC’s work is streamlined into five thematic clusters:
Recent Posts
South African arms exports: Creating a practice of double standards?
South Africa’s stance in the Palestine situation, calling for a cessation of arms transfers and standing for the protection of human rights and civilians, embodies guiding principles and criteria that…
Rural Women Confront Land Dispossession as a Form of GBV
In the predominantly women-owned agricultural lands of Serenje District in Zambia's Central Province, home of the Lala people, a lesser-known form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has been unfolding for several…