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.
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Asylum-seekers entering South Africa are no longer being issued with the necessary documents to apply for refugee status. Without a so-called section...
23 January 2012
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The Constitutional Court is to be asked to shed some legal certainty on the question whether our government can deport “undesirable”...
22 December 2011
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Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) has noted the Department of Home Affairs’ continued efforts to unlawfully prevent refugees from submitting...
20 January 2012
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DOCUMENT - SOUTH AFRICA: CALL FOR SOUTH AFRICA TO FULFIL ITS INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC OBLIGATIONS IN THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEES AND...
22 December 2011
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The Constitutional Court has ruled that parents of children who have been removed from their care by the state will now have access to an automatic...
12 January 2012
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In recent months the judiciary has come under attack for being anti-transformative. Yet the Constitutional Court’s most recent judgments reveal...
15 December 2011
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