Date: 31/03/2020
Public Interest Law organisations working together, to make sure human rights are respected and protected during the COVID19 lock-down in South Africa.
PRESS STATEMENT | Misinterpretation of Constitutional Court...
On 22 September 2021, the Constitutional Court handed down a judgment in which is declared section 10 of the Births...
Date: 29/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Victory in the Supreme...
On 19 August 2021, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) heard arguments from Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on behalf...
Date: 28/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Supreme Court of Appeal...
On 22 September 2021, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down two judgments in the matter Kouwenhoven v Minister...
Date: 22/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Constitutional Court affirms the...
“A surname connects us to our heritage and roots us in history and family tradition. In many African cultures, names...
Date: 22/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR goes to court...
LHR’s Land and Housing Programme is in court again for the fourteenth time this year for the case of Ventersdorp...
Date: 17/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Pretoria High Court Awards...
The Pretoria High Court has awarded refugee status to JN and KHG, represented by LHR, in two separate matters. In...
Date: 16/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Pretoria High Court Grants...
On Tuesday, 14 September 2021 the Pretoria High Court granted citizenship to Mr. Emmanuel Bukweya Ngenani, after a long battle...
Date: 15/09/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR at the Supreme...
Today, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear in the Supreme Court of Appeal in the matter of The Somali...
Date: 19/08/2021
STATEMENT BY THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN NATIONALITY NETWORK...
Statelessness is a preventable but growing phenomenon globally and in the SADC region. Statelessness across the region is primarily linked...
Date: 18/08/2021
JOINT STATEMENT | Scrapping of provisions discriminating...
Today the Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), applauded...
Date: 12/08/2021
JOB OPPORTUNITY | Head of Law Clinic...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) seeks to appoint a Manager of its Law Clinic for its Refugee and Migrant Rights...
Date: 04/08/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Constitutional Court confirms that...
On 30 July 2021, the Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in the matter of Jonathan Dubula Qwelane v South...
Date: 30/07/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR speaks out about...
As a non-profit organisation dedicated to making rights real, especially for our country’s most marginalized and vulnerable communities, Lawyers for...
Date: 19/07/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Land Claims Court Grants...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) has successfully represented twelve families comprising of former farmworkers in the Land Claims Court (LCC),...
Date: 15/07/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Supreme Court of Appeal...
On 21 June 2021, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down judgment in the matter Joao Rodrigues v National...
Date: 23/06/2021
WORLD REFUGEE DAY STATEMENT | This is...
To mark World Refugee Day and Youth Month, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), The Jesuit Institute of...
Date: 20/06/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Department of Health and...
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS), SECTION27 and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), organisations working and advocating the rights of refugees, asylum...
Date: 17/06/2021
YOUTH DAY STATEMENT | Let us reach...
Youth Day commemorates the uprising of the youth in South Africa as they led a revolution to end apartheid and...
Date: 16/06/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR stands with LGBTIQ+...
As we mark the half-way point in Global Pride Month, LHR calls for an end to the prejudice and discrimination...
Date: 15/06/2021
JOINT STATEMENT | ‘We stand with the...
On 3 June 2021, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and Open Secrets launched an urgent two-part application in the...
Date: 07/06/2021
JOINT STATEMENT | Child Protection Week 2021:...
As we commemorate Child Protection Week (30 May – 6 June 2021), an umbrella body comprising eight humanitarian organisations, the...
Date: 03/06/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR to Challenge Eviction...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is in the Middleburg High Court today, defending a group of retired mineworkers who previously...
Date: 25/05/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | 195 former Ekurhuleni Metro...
Following a brief postponement, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is back in the Labour Appeal Court today representing dismissed workers...
Date: 25/05/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Western Cape High Court...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcomes the recent order granted by the Western Cape High Court as a positive step in...
Date: 19/05/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | DHA announces online renewal...
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes recent information released by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA), announcing an online renewal process...
Date: 18/05/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR Represents UN Special...
Beginning today, the Pretoria High Court will hear a challenge to government’s longstanding failure to take meaningful steps to combat...
Date: 17/05/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR and Sonke Gender...
On 12 May 2021, the Western Cape High Court will hear the matter of Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town (Scalabrini)...
Date: 11/05/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Mining Host Communities in...
This week, the Pretoria High Court is hearing a review of the 2018 Mining Charter, to which a number of...
Date: 04/05/2021
JOINT STATEMENT | Hate Crime Murders –...
South Africa, it is enough. Over the past two and half months, South Africa’s LGBTIQ+ community has been rocked by...
Date: 22/04/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR briefs Portfolio Committee...
Ms. Primrose Modisane is a South African citizen by birth, however, for the past 16 years she has struggled to...
Date: 15/03/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Lawyers for Human Rights...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) has received several reports from student activists regarding the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) use...
Date: 10/03/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR Launches Universal Birth...
“Universal birth registration is impossible to ignore and entirely possible to achieve.” – Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, 2009 Universal birth...
Date: 05/03/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | 195 former employees of...
Today, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is in the Labour Appeal Court representing dismissed workers of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality...
Date: 23/02/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Wayne Ncube Appointed as...
Lawyers for Human Rights is delighted to announce the appointment of Wayne Ncube to the role of National Director of...
Date: 17/02/2021
Statement by the Southern African Nationality Network...
As the Covid-19 virus has spread across the world, we were all beset with fear and uncertainty that has now...
Date: 16/02/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | New LHR report looks...
Today Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) released a new report on gender and migration. The report, titled “Paper Promises”, is...
Date: 08/02/2021
PRESS STATEMENT | Constitutional Court confirms unconstitutionality...
On 4 December the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in the confirmation proceedings relating to Sonke Gender Justice / President...
Date: 07/12/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | High Court Grants interim...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcomes the judgment handed down in the Western Cape High Court interdicting and restraining the...
Date: 04/12/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | Community journalists pledge their...
On the 26th and 27th November 2020, journalists working in community radio and community print media from around South Africa...
Date: 03/12/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | South Africa’s Department of...
In 2019 the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) launched an application in the Western Cape High Court challenging the decision...
Date: 16/11/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | “South Africa belongs to...
Elizabeth was born in Lesotho to a Basotho mother and a South African father. She moved to South Africa when...
Date: 13/11/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | UN Special Rapporteur for...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean,...
Date: 13/11/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | LHR and Sonke Gender...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will be representing Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) who have brought an application to the Court...
Date: 10/11/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | Ahmed Timol murder-accused to...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will be representing the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) who will be appearing as amicus...
Date: 05/11/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | African organisations push for...
In June 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted resolution 26/9, by which it agreed to establish an open-ended...
Date: 20/10/2020
PRESS STATEMENT | QWELANE VS SOUTH AFRICAN...
On 22 September 2020, the Constitutional Court will hear the case of Jonathan Dubula Qwelane v South African Human Rights...
Date: 21/09/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Lawyers for Human Rights to...
On Tuesday, 15 September 2020, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), in collaboration with Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and Corruption...
Date: 15/09/2020
Statelessness in a global pandemic: an old...
A statement by the Southern African Nationality Network (SANN) to the 16th Southern African Civil Society Forum.
Date: 21/08/2020
[VACANCY] LHR seeks Candidate Attorney for eThekwini...
LHR is inviting applications from law graduates with an interest in human rights law and public interest litigation to join...
Date: 31/07/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Constitutional Court settles 7-year battle...
The Constitutional Court yesterday handed down judgment in a case launched by Lawyers for Human Rights in 2016, but which...
Date: 23/07/2020
[VACANCY] LHR seeks National Director
LHR is a vibrant, 40-year old non-profit organisation offering specialist public interest legal services in key programme areas such as...
Date: 08/07/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Residents of Industry House &...
On 29 June 2020, the High Court in Johannesburg declared section 13 (7) (c) of the South African Police Services...
Date: 01/07/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] On World Refugee Day, LHR...
As we commemorate world refugee day it is important to uphold the fundamental rights of foreign nationals as equal to...
Date: 20/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Urgent Litigation on Covid-19 Social...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) supports the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Towns’ urgent litigation to include asylum seekers and special...
Date: 17/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] UN Special Rapporteur Applies to...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is representing the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating...
Date: 15/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Agreement reached between the Lesetlheng...
This agreement is a significant milestone following protracted litigation and ongoing negotiations between the Lesetlheng community and Pilanesberg Platinum Mine.
Date: 11/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Fighting For Fatherhood In South...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), representing the Centre for Child Law (CCL), yesterday filed an application with the Constitutional Court...
Date: 10/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Lawyers for Human Rights Releases...
On Friday, 12 June 2020, via webinar, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will launch its report, “Monitoring Policy, Litigious and...
Date: 09/06/2020
Joint Statement on Child Protection Week: Protecting...
The World Health Organisation describes COVID-19 pandemic as having a devastating impact across the world. Although governments are commended for...
Date: 03/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] Supreme Court of Appeal upholds...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcomes the judgment handed down in the Supreme Court of Appeal on 29 May 2019,...
Date: 01/06/2020
[PRESS STATEMENT] TERS extended to workers not...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcome the amendments to the Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) which extend the definition...
Date: 27/05/2020
Joint Statement: In Solidarity with the Stateless
An urgent call to states, donors and other stakeholders to promote and protect the rights of stateless persons in their...
Date: 27/05/2020
LHR Launches Constitutional Challenge on Behalf of...
Lawyers for Human Rights has launched an urgent application on behalf of informal waste reclaimers in Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, seeking...
Date: 26/05/2020
Lawyers for Human Rights Celebrates Africa Day:...
Today, the 25th of May 2020, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) celebrates Africa Day. Africa Day is an annual commemoration...
Date: 25/05/2020
High Court rules unmarried fathers can register...
Lawyers for Human Rights (“LHR”) welcomes the judgment handed on 19 May 2020 by Rugunanan J of the Makhanda High...
Date: 24/05/2020
Marievale Community Successfully Fights Illegal Eviction by...
In an urgent court hearing yesterday night, Lawyers for Human Rights again successfully defended the Marievale community, a small village...
Date: 22/05/2020
Strandfontein Homeless Action Committee v City of...
It is with regret that Lawyers for Human Rights announces that it has withdrawn as the attorneys of record for...
Date: 21/05/2020
Strandfontein Homeless Committee Takes on City of...
On Monday 18 May 2020, the Strandfontein Homeless Action Committee (SHAC), represented by Lawyers for Human Rights, initiated legal proceedings...
Date: 19/05/2020
Joint Statement on Workers Day 2020
A joint statement by the Universal Rights Association, Africa Diaspora Forum, the Consortium for Refugees & Migrants in South Africa,...
Date: 01/05/2020
High Court declares parts of the new...
In the matter of Lawyers for Human Rights and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and others, LHR acting in...
Date: 01/01/2003
Lawyers for Human Rights wins landmark decision...
Lawyers for Human Rights won a landmark case against the Department of Home Affairs and the Airports Company of South...
Date: 01/01/2002
Refugee rights dropped from world racism conference
Following the controversial debate surrounding reparations, the Geneva preparatory meeting of the UN World Conference Against Racism has recently decided...
Date: 01/01/2001
Human rights group plan court action over...
HUMAN rights lawyers are threatening legal action against the home affairs department for ordering border posts to turn back asylum-seekers...
Date: 01/01/2001
Die Okkupeerder: a Resource Manual for Eviction...
At the end of May 1999, the Security of Farm Workers Project launched a booklet called “Die Okkupeerder: A resource...
Date: 31/05/1999
LHR to Challenge Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19...
Lawyers for Human Rights will appear before the Pretoria High Court today on behalf of five groups of informal waste...
Date: 07/04/2020
NIAWG Advocacy Statement on COVID-19 and vulnerable...
The NIAWG calls on all concerned stakeholders and authorities to make every effort to prevent any form of harm and...
Date: 08/04/2020
LEGAL SUPPORT HOTLINE DURING #LOCKDOWNSA
Public Interest Law organisations working together, to make sure human rights are respected and protected during the COVID19 lock-down in...
Date: 31/03/2020
LHR’s Human Rights Day Statement
On this Human Rights Day, amidst the growing COVID-19 threat, Lawyers for Human Rights calls on all in South Africa...
Date: 21/03/2020
LHR Responds to COVID-19
On Sunday, 15 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak....
Date: 16/03/2020
Constitutional Court rules president’s suspension of SADC...
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes the Constitutional Court’s judgement, handed down yesterday, 11 December 2018, in the matter of Law Society...
Date: 12/12/2018
Urgent appeal to support LHR client after...
Lawyers for Human Rights is making an urgent appeal for assistance after a recent judgement by the Johannesburg High Court,...
Date: 21/10/2019
Supreme Court of Appeal secures the right...
LHR welcomes the judgment handed down by Maya P in the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday, 8 July 2019,...
Date: 08/07/2019
Sexual offences courts critical in the fight...
Organisations in the gender-based violence sector were shocked to learn that the Department of Justice intends to investigate the possibility...
Date: 15/05/2017
Police failure to assist complainants in terms...
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is deeply unsatisfied with the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Civilian Secretariat for Police...
Date: 30/09/2017
LHR rejects normalisation of violence against women
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is shocked to learn that Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Mduduzi Manana, allegedly assaulted two...
Date: 07/08/2017
#NotOurLeaders campaign launched during 16 days of...
#NotOurLeaders Campaing launched by Women and Democracy Initiative, Lawyers for Human Rights and gender violence specialist during 16 Days of...
Date: 24/11/2017
No more time limit to prosecute sexual...
On Thursday 14 June 2018, the South African Constitutional Court (Court) issued an unanimous judgment confirming that there will be...
Date: 15/06/2018
LHR supports #TheTotalShutDown
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) supports #TheTotalShutDown, the national intersectional womxn’s march against gender based violence. All LHR women and...
Date: 01/08/2018
#NotOurLeaders
Equality Court to hear case on the...
On 26 November 2018, the Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear in the Cape High Court, sitting as an...
Date: 25/11/2018
LHR on announcement that there is no...
On Monday, 2 September, the South African government on Twitter called on women to “speak out”, and “not allow themselves...
Date: 03/09/2019
Victory for Jade September and the transgender...
On Monday 23 September 2019, the Equality Court in the Western Cape handed down judgment in the matter of September...
Date: 23/09/2019
Judgment in the case of J September
Lawyers for Human Rights, the Legal Resources Centre, and Gender Dynamix cordially invite you to a press conference, on judgment...
Date: 16/09/2019
African organisations push for binding treaty on...
As part of the latest round of negotiations on the U.N. Binding Treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises...
Date: 01/10/2019
Marievale Community in court today to fight...
In November and December 2017 members of the SANDF stormed into the homes of about 150 families residing in a...
Date: 17/04/2018
Mayor of Lusikisiki for contempt of a...
15 April 2018 — On Friday, 13 April 2018, the New Rest community witnessed justice in action when the Mayor...
Date: 15/04/2018
Victory for the homeless
LHR represents a group of homeless people who reside at Prince’s Park, on the corner of Prince’s Park Road and...
Date: 03/04/2018
Mr Godfrey Mtenje and his family fight...
The matter of Mr Godfrey Mtenje will continue be heard in the Land Claims Court of South Africa on the...
Date: 19/03/2018
Victory for mining host communities in 2017...
This morning, the Pretoria High Court postponed the judicial review of the Mining Charter published last year by Minister of...
Date: 19/02/2018
LHR notes the statements released by the...
LHR notes the statements released by the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources regarding postponement of the...
Date: 19/02/2018
Mining host communities in court to challenge...
Beginning tomorrow, four mining affected communities represented by Lawyers for Human Rights will be in the Pretoria High Court to...
Date: 18/02/2018
In memory of Rudolph Jansen
Long-time human rights lawyer, Rudolph Jansen, who fought against injustice on behalf of the poor and marginalized for over three...
Date: 27/11/2017
LHR is delighted that the Pretoria High...
LHR is delighted that the Pretoria High Court today ruled that four of its clients, should be allowed to intervene...
Date: 14/11/2017
Mary Rahube // Hedsrine Rahube & others...
Today, the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria handed down judgment in the case of Mary Rahube, a...
Date: 26/09/2017
