Objectives

The Aims and Objectives of LACC are as follows:-
  • To provide free legal aid, counselling, mediation services and court representation to the needy women and children.
  • To influence the legislative reforms and official/public policies on promotion and protection of the rights and interests of women and children, gender equality, women's empowerment and gender-equitable development.
  • To draft legislative bills protecting the rights and interests of women and children and lobby with the Members of Parliament, Ministers and policy influencing individuals and institutions for the enactment of the proposed draft bills into law.
  • To influence the law makers for abolishing all forms discriminatory laws against women.
  • To work for elimination of all forms of exploitation, discrimination, trafficking, violence against women and children through legal and judicial process.
  • To raise women's consciousness about the social, cultural, economic, religious and legal injustices, gender issues and discrimination against them and develop their consciousness, self-confidence and esteem through training, discussions, workshops, publications, awareness raising and leadership development programmes.
  • To encourage and prepare women to play a leading role in Nepal's social, political legal and economic development.
  • To train women law students with a view to creating more women leaders in judiciary, politics, bureaucracy, law enforcement and other sectors.
  • To develop a critical understanding of the role of law in women's lives through legal research and conduct legal research and various need assessment that will help in addressing women's and children's concerns in a scientific manner.
  • To work for protection and promotion of women's rights as enshrined in the CEDAW, the Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration, 1995 in the country- especially in rural areas.
METHODOLOGIES  
It will accomplish its goals, aims and objectives through human rights education, training, dissemination, sensitization, documentation, fact-finding, research, publications, advocacy, campaign, lobbying, networking, legal aid, counselling, mediation services and court representation.
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