Programme News
10 September 2018
(Press release)
Today, Monday 10 September 2018, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will be at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein to appeal against the judgement of J Sutherland handed down in April 2017 in the Gauteng Local Division.
In the case of S Ngomane and 27 Others vs The City of Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police (‘JMPD’), the Land & Housing Unit of...
29 August 2018
(Press release)
29 August 2018
On 30 August 2018, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear at the Constitutional Court on behalf of Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) in the matter of Law Society of South Africa and others v The President of the Republic of South Africa and others, when it will hear arguments on the issue of the President’s participation in the suspension of the...
23 August 2018
(Press release)
23 August 2018
Sonke Gender Justice and Lawyers for Human Rights welcome the Deputy Minister of Police’s statement on unintended consequences of public statements he made in July 2017
Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcome the public statement issued by the Deputy Minister of Police, Mr Bongani Mkongi on 21 August 2018. In what is unprecedented...
22 August 2018
(Press release)
22 August 2018
The Pretoria High Court made an order yesterday declaring a 12 year-old boy to be a South African citizen. The Department of Home Affairs had unlawfully refused to register Wandile’s* birth, despite his clear right to be recognised as a South African citizen. This refusal had left him effectively stateless. Two unknown children had been registered under his mother...
16 August 2018
(Press release)
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16 August 2018
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT
15 August 2018
CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION HOSTS INDABA ON PROPOSED UN BINDING TREATY
ActionAid South Africa (AASA), in cooperation with DIRCO and supported by Lawyers For Human Rights (LHR) and Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), prepare to host a discussion on the draft international binding treaty regulating...
8 August 2018
(Press release)
Women’s Month, August 2018
For release: Wednesday 8 August 2018
UNBOTHERED, UNRESPONSIVE: WHERE IS YOUR SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICY?
The provincial legislatures oversee and make the law. But when it comes to sexual harassment they seem to think they do not need the law. The #NotOurLeaders campaign has written repeatedly to all nine provincial legislatures and our four largest...
31 July 2018
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) supports #TheTotalShutDown, the national intersectional womxn’s march against gender based violence. All LHR women and LGBTQ staff will stay away from work on the 1st of August 2018, and participate in marches in Tshwane, Johannesburg, Durban, Upington, and Cape Town.
In the course of its programmatic work, LHR encounters countless victims of gender-...
31 July 2018
(News)
The Board of Lawyers for Human Rights has appointed Mildred Khumalo and Michael Clements to the roles of Acting Co-Directors of the organization.
Mildred is the current Finance Manager, and Michael is the current Environmental Rights Programme Manager.
The Acting Co-Directors will retain these positions while the Board works to identify and retain a permanent National Director, and an...
26 July 2018
(Press release)
Today, the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in the matter of Assign Services v NUMSA and Others, which concerns the correct interpretation of section 198A(3)(b) (the “deeming provision”) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1996 (LRA). Section 198A(3)(b) provides that an employee who earns less than the stipulated threshold and is contracted through a Temporary Employment...