The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) is a non profit law centre that seeks to achieve equality for women, particularly black women, through impact based litigation, the provision of free legal advice to women, legal support to advocacy campaigns by gender and other organizations and training that ensures that people know and understand the impact of the judgments of the courts around women’s rights.
The WLC also provides legal advice to other non-governmental women’s organizations nationally and in Africa. WLC is based in Cape Town and has satellite offices in Khayeltisha and Johannesburg.