Programme News
3 February 2014
(News)
Boosted by a weekend interdict allowing Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) hostel residents back on campus, student leaders say they will proceed with a mass protest on Monday.
Late on Sunday, some residence students remained uncertain about their position and when they would be able to return to their rooms. Many in Soshanguve had taken shelter in the Falala Community Hall in block F.
Cecil...
3 February 2014
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights is concerned by the Tshwane University of Technology’s wilful contempt of an urgent court order allowing students to return to their residences.
The North Gauteng High Court on Saturday issued an urgent order allowing students who had been evicted from their residences at TUT to return to their residences. The university acknowledged the ruling through media...
26 January 2014
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A mental health and HIV project aimed at assisting traumatised refugees and asylum-seekers has yielded such good results that it has been extended for another year.
The project was launched by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Torture (CSVR) last year to provide holistic support to...
24 January 2014
(Press release)
The Tshwane metro police officer, accused of the kidnapping and assault of six Zimbabwean nationals in 2010, has been convicted in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court.
Steven Ndou changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on Friday before being convicted of the 2010 kidnapping and assault of three of the victims. The case has been postponed to 28 February for the purposes of a pre-...
24 January 2014
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The unrest that flared up in Soweto and other areas this week showed a lack of compassion for foreign nationals trying to make a living in South Africa, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Saturday.
“The LHR is shocked and disappointed by the blatant disregard for human life in these attacks and calls for a swift and efficient end to the violence,” said LHR attorney Patricia...
24 January 2014
(News)
The unrest that flared up in Soweto and other areas this week showed a lack of compassion for foreign nationals trying to make a living in South Africa, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Saturday.
“The LHR is shocked and disappointed by the blatant disregard for human life in these attacks and calls for a swift and efficient end to the violence,” said LHR attorney Patricia...
22 January 2014
(Press release)
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), through Lawyers for Human Rights, are challenging the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against last year’s order in the Zimbabwe Torture Docket case.
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last year ruled that SAPS and the National...
22 January 2014
(News)
The South African authorities have been accused of abusing the country’s court processes, after filing another appeal against a landmark order to probe crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe.
Last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld a court order from 2012 that compelled the prosecuting authorities in South Africa to investigate torture and other crimes perpetrated in Zimbabwe....
10 January 2014
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Government has acknowledged its failures in its land reform programme, particularly in providing support to successful claimants.
Chief Land Claims Commissioner Nomfundo Gobodo said the keyword going forward will be sustainability.
In what could pave the way for other land reform cases, a controversial land claim was settled in Mpumalanga on Thursday.
Government paid about R1-billion for...
11 December 2013
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A mental health and HIV pilot project has been launched by the UNHCR in partnership with Lawyers for Human Rights and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Torture to provide a holistic support to refugees and asylum-seekers with mental health illnesses.
The project, aiming to address the needs of people with mental health problems and improve the mental well-being of refugees in Gauteng, will...