Lawyers for Human Rights

Lawyers for Human Rights is an independent human rights organisation with a thirty-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 the 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.

Latest news and press releases

The High Court in Port Elizabeth today heard legal arguments regarding the lawfulness of the closure of the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office...
9 February 2012
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will today challenge the new rules pertaining to judicial reviews in terms of the Promotion of Administrative Justice...
6 February 2012
(News)
LHR welcomes the decision by the  Constitutional court to dismiss an application for leave to appeal brought by the Department of Home Affairs....
9 February 2012
(Press release)
Litigation Attorney - Johannesburg The position seeks an admitted attorney with an interest in refugee and immigration law and high court litigation...
3 February 2012
(Press release)
Media Release - Mining-Environment-Communities Alliance: Statement for the Mining Indaba 7 February 2012 1.     For the...
7 February 2012
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), with the financial support of Legal Aid South Africa, has brought a challenge to the new rules of judicial review,...
3 February 2012
(Press release)

Features

Environmental Rights and Municipal Accountability: Water Supply and Sanitation in South Africa

This legal review looks at strategic interventions for upholding the constitutional rights to water and sanitation and a better use of the law in improving the delivery of water services. Of course, use of law is not the only way of reaching such goals.

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Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme (RMRP)

Established in 1996 LHR's Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme is a specialist programme that advocates, strengthens and enforces the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and other marginalised categories of migrants in South Africa.

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LHR migration and tolerance campaign
LHR migration and tolerance campaign
LHR migration and tolerance campaign