Center for legal advice and legal aid for women and children (LACEW) was established under Decision No. 19 / QD-BTTP dated October 3, 2012 of the Standing Committee of the Judicial Protection Association for the poor. Vietnam and the Department of Justice. Hanoi granted establishment license No. 16 / TP / ĐKHĐ-TT dated October 15, 2012.

The Center has legal status, its own seal and account, operates under the financial self-financing mechanism, the head office is located at 4 Ngo Quyen, Ly Thai To, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.

The Center has the function of providing legal advice, legal support to organizations and individuals, especially disadvantaged groups such as women and children, helping them to protect their legitimate rights and interests, and improve legal capacity.

The scope of activities of the Center includes: legal consultancy; appoint lawyers to participate in legal proceedings to defend, represent and protect legitimate rights and interests of individuals and organizations; representation outside the proceedings and performing other legal services; The center receives and executes cases in all legal fields nationwide.

The Center provides free legal services to people with legal aid, contributing to ensuring human rights and citizens' rights in accessing justice and equality before the law.

Lacew Center has a team of lawyers with long-term practice, enthusiasm and responsibility who are making efforts to organize activities to propagate and disseminate the law to the people, contributing to raising awareness. legal advice for people, supporting people with legal difficulties and limited contact with legal consulting services, aiming to build an obstacle-free society and protect the legitimate rights of women. women, children and other vulnerable groups in the community.

Up to now, the Center has provided legal services to many agencies, businesses and individuals in the fields of law such as: settlement of commercial, civil, divorce, administrative, criminal the ...

The Center also implements many judicial initiatives sponsored by the European Union, the Embassy of Canada ... to increase access to justice and protect the rights of people in areas such as labor, employment, real Examination of administrative procedures in the field of health, education ...