Lawyers for Human Rights
Lawyers for Human Rights is an independent human rights organisation with a 30-year track record of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa. LHR uses the law as a positive instrument for change and to deepen the democratisation of South African society. To this end, it provides free legal services to vulnerable, marginalised and indigent individuals and communities, both non-national and South African, who are victims of unlawful infringements of their constitutional rights.
News
16 May 2013
Laywers for Human Rights are set on paving the way for future land reform and creating a precedent on how displaced communities will settle with...
3 May 2013
Lawyers for Human Rights has scored a first-round victory for the rights of eight children seeking asylum in South Africa, but who have been...
30 April 2013
South Africa attracts the largest number of asylum seekers in the world, but grants refugee status to very few of them, ranking only thirty-sixth in...
30 April 2013
South Africa attracts the largest number of asylum seekers in the world, but grants refugee status to very few of them, ranking only thirty-sixth in...
29 April 2013
When a decision to eradicate hostels around Tshwane was taken, the “good news” was welcomed by those who lived in the hostels and...
Press Releases
3 May 2013
Lawyers for Human Rights is pushing to set a land reform precedent in post-settlement support by which future land claims will follow.
LHR on...
30 April 2013
The North Gauteng High Court ordered today that eight separated minors living in South Africa be allowed to register for and attend public...
20 April 2013
Judgment has been reserved in the case challenging the closure of the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office in the Eastern Cape High Court....
18 April 2013
Lawyers for Human Rights and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s Refugee Rights Centre will appear in the Eastern Cape High Court...
27 March 2013
Statelessness is a reality for more than 12-million people around the world, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In absence...
Videos
Bad luck will come to us – Clay mining and erosion in Limpopo
In 2010, Blue Platinum Ventures started mining outside the area for which they had an approved...
'They beat me like I'm not even a man'
Torture is not dead in our society. Three drug dealers and a car guard talk to the M&G about...
A deep wound - Anthracite mining in Mpumalanga
In 2007, a new anthracite mine was buillt in Madadeni, diverting a tributary to the Nkomati River...
I hate this in my life: Coal mining in Mpumalanga
In 2008 Samson Sibanda bought a farm in Mpumalanga and wants it rehabilitated after damage caused...
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