All news items
8 August 2017
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is heartened by today’s Land Claims Court ruling in the matter of Paulinah Moleleki v. Far West Dolomitic Water Association to uphold the right of indigent defendants to be afforded adequate representation and support to ensure a fair trial. Judge Poswa-Lerotholi AJ issued the judgment, which rescinds an eviction order for a family (our clients) who have...
24 July 2017
Lawyers for Human Rights is a vibrant human rights organisation with a proud history of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa since 1979. With six offices spread around the country, LHR has a national footprint and offers specialist public interest legal services in key programme areas such as refugee and migrant rights, land reform, housing, environmental justice,...
24 July 2017
The Lawyers for Human Rights’ Refugee and Migrant Rights Program is looking for law graduates or paralegals to assist as interns in the Johannesburg law clinic in Braamfontein as well as our clinic in Pretoria. Our interns assist with various support activities including client interaction and communication, legal correspondence and submissions, as well as administrative support. ...
21 July 2017
LHR is an independent human rights organisation with a thirty eight year track record of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa. We offer human rights lawyers an exciting and challenging work environment covering a wide range of social justice issues.
LHR is inviting applications from law graduates with an interest in human rights law and public interest litigation...
19 July 2017
Join us at Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG) discussing the "Crisis in Social Care Services: Legal and Other Solutions"
South African civil society is well-aware of the shrinking space available to us for progressive advocacy and political dissent. However, there is another area where our space is under pressure that requires urgent attention.
The overwhelming majority of...
12 July 2017
Internationally ‘labour flexibility’ has been the underlying philosophy guiding state and employer reform of labour markets over the past 20 to 30 years, ostensibly in response to intensified competition caused by globalization. Employers have completely reorganised the employment relation by increasingly using more and more contract or casual labour. In some instances such labour is...
5 July 2017
We are pleased to announce that we are now officially on Linkedin! As part of our goal to become more connected with our clients we decided that Linkedin is a great place to be! With 300 million users, Linkedin is the place to go for professionals and organisations.
If you have a profile on Linkedin, please connect with our page!
12 April 2017
The Lawyers for Human Rights’ Refugee and Migrant Rights Program is looking for law graduates or paralegals to assist as interns in the Johannesburg law clinic in Braamfontein as well as our clinic in Pretoria.
Our interns assist with various support activities including client interaction and communication, legal correspondence and submissions, as well as administrative...
5 April 2017
Lawyers for Human Rights calls on ALL South Africans to support the People’s March which will take place on Friday 07th April 2017. Organisations including Save South Africa are calling on all who are living in South Africa to join this march. We will gather at Church Square in Pretoria from 10am on Friday morning and will march to the Union Building. We need to stand in unity with the call...
28 March 2017
Today we awoke to the news of the passing of one of our renowned struggle heroes, Mr. Ahmed Kathrada. We would like to join many others who knew Mr. Ahmed Kathrada in offering our deepest sympathy on his passing. Although it is little consolation at this sad time, it should be of some satisfaction to know that in his passing we can celebrate the end of a very long and productive life.
Kathrada...