Namibia LAWA Fellow 2006-2007 Bachelor of Jurisprudence, University of Namibia L.L.B., University of Namibia Post-Graduate Diploma in Conciliation and Arbitration, University of Cape Town 600 New Jersey Avenue N.W. Suite 334 Washington , D.C. 20001 lindadumba@yahoo.com

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Prior to her fellowship, Ms. Dumba conducted research for the Law Reform and Development Commission of the Ministry of Justice in Namibia on the impact of traditional inheritance laws on women and children in 2003. She also conducted research for UNICEF on the plight of orphans in rural communities.

LAWA Experience:

Ms. Dumba is currently pursuing her L.L.M. degree at the Georgetown University Law Center

Additional Experience:

Ms. Dumba was engaged as a candidate legal practitioner at the Human Rights and Constitutional Litigiation Unit of the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC), the only public interest law firm in Namibia.

In 2004, she was admitted as a legal practitioner to the High Court of Namibia and was incorporated into the LAC’s Land, Environment and Development Department. In this capacity, she has worked on the Women and Property Rights Project, conducting educational workshops with women’s groups, communal land farmers, community activists, traditional leaders, communal land boards, churches, and government officials on laws relating to women’s rights to property.

In 2004 she facilitated a workshop on women’s rights under customary law held in Lusaka, Zambia, a joint project between the Legal Resources Foundation in South Africa, the Legal Resources Foundation in Zambia and the Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia, which culminated in a report on the position of women under customary law in those countries

Ms. Dumba contributed to the Estates and Succession Amendment Act 15 of 2005, which replaced discriminatory provisions of the Native Administrative Proclamation 15 of 1928, dealing with the administration and distribution of black decedents’ estates. On International Women’s Rights Day 2005, she presented the civil society statement to the African Ministerial Conference on Hydro Power and Sustainable Development in South Africa.