LACC Nepal (Legal Aid and Consultancy Centre Nepal) is a non-profit organization that aims to enhance women's and marginalized groups' access to gender-responsive justice in Nepal. It provides a wide range of legal aid and support to people in accessing justice, through legal counseling and court representation support, mediation, policy dialogues, community empowerment, and awareness-raising. Prof. Dr. Shanta Thapalia founded it in 1987 with the intention of promoting and protecting the rights and interests of women and children in Nepal. LACC is committed to defending and promoting the dignity, well-being, and rights of Nepalese women and children. It is a pioneer legal resource organization dedicated to the promotion and empowerment of women, the advancement of their socio-legal position, and the preservation of children's rights. LACC has a holistic and interconnected strategy to combat injustice. LACC's fundamental service is the provision of institutional free legal aid. Helplines service, initial psycho-social counseling, mediation, legal support, paralegal services, and court representation are all part of this service. LACC is dedicated to achieving its goals through policy intervention, human rights training, legal information dissemination, awareness, documentation, fact-finding, research, publications, advocacy campaigns, lobbying, and networking. Aside from this, the LACC has been involved in legislative bill drafting and legal publication initiatives.

LACC has been successfully run by learned, professionally qualified, and competent female advocates over the past 35 years. It constantly strives to promote human rights and humanity. We have a team of dedicated female lawyers and experts for counseling, mediation, pleading, drafting, court representation and implementation of cases, free of charge to all our clients. We conduct several outreach programs such as mobile camps in backward communities and legal awareness for women at the grass-roots level. Most importantly, LACC is committed to building a strong future generation of competent female lawyers through mentoring, clinical legal education, capacity building and legal training.

The organization performs into three levels Policy Level At the policy level the organization collaborates with like-minded organizations, LACC Nepal engages in advocacy and policy work to promote laws, policies, and programs that support women's rights and gender equality. They work with the government, NGOs, and other stakeholders to ensure that the rights of women are protected and promoted. Besides, LACC has been lobbying the Government of Nepal (GoN) to meet its obligations under international human rights instruments through policy dialogues, research recommendations, legal inputs, and so on and so forth. MACRO Level LACC promotes gender-responsive justice for women, girls, and marginalized communities with intersecting identities at the regional level. Free legal aid support to SGBV survivors, orientation on gender-responsive justice, workshops to mainstream GESI and behavioral change approaches in justice delivery, awareness about harmful practices and social norms, consultation with stakeholders to sensitize and make responsive to gender justice, collaboration, media engagement, and coordination are among the activities undertaken to support enhancing access to gender-responsive justice for the target groups. MICRO Level LACC believes that sustainable and equitable development will be impossible to achieve unless and until grassroots communities are empowered. Keeping this in mind, LACC has invested resources to empower the community for the community. LACC empowers grassroots women's organizations, SGBV survivors, and service recipients to become community justice actors/paralegals, facilitating justice in the community. Furthermore, LACC has been capacitating community-based formal and informal justice actors in the integration of behavioral change in order to improve gender-responsive access to justice. Throughout the decades, LACC has worked tirelessly to reduce all forms of discrimination by raising awareness of the prevalent socially harmful behaviors, norms, and institutions that obstruct women's and marginalized communities' access to justice.