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Environmental Rights Project
The Environmental Rights Project (ERP) is a newly established project at Lawyers for Human Rights. The project focuses on matters concerning the environmental rights of marginalised people in South Africa. The project, which is based at LHR's Pretoria office, complements existing environmental organisations and draws on their extensive experience and expertise while providing professional litigation and advocacy services.
Cases and Judgements
There are currently no cases or judgements linked to this programme.
Environmental Rights Project News
14 December 2009
(Press release)
Environmental Rights Project Publications
The purpose of this booklet is to provide an overview of LHR’s litigation activities and our role in public interest litigation in South Africa. The booklet has been designed thematically and looks at past LHR cases with a view of planning for future projects and activities to develop human rights jurisprudence 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. The review therefore also looks at interventions that use public participation and social mobilisation to ensure that communities are actively involved in asserting their rights inside and outside the legal environment.The use of the law however when properly used, enables poor and marginalised communities to achieve impact and success where other efforts have failed. This requires a closer look at available legal interventions and a strategic analysis of how these interventions can have the greatest possible impact on the delivery of water services.