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[PRESS RELEASE] LHR Seeks to Challenge Discriminatory Policing in "Residents of Industry House" Case
13 March 2020
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO HEAR JICS INDEPENDANCE CASE
2 March 2020
(Press release)
[CLOSED] INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN JOHANNESBURG, STRATEGIC LITIGATION
10 February 2020
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] DISMISSED MUNICIPALITY WORKERS GET THEIR DAY IN COURT
16 January 2020
(Press release)
[CLOSED] INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN PRETORIA
15 January 2020
(News)
[CLOSED] INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN JOHANNESBURG
6 January 2020
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE]: TRIUMPH FOR UNDOCUMENTED LEARNERS AS HIGH COURT CONFIRMS RIGHT TO EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD
12 December 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: MUSHROOMVILLE INFORMAL RECLAIMERS FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING
3 December 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELASE] LHR IN COURT TO CHALLENGE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF ASYLUM SYSTEM
26 November 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] LHR APPEALS TO PUBLIC TO SUPPORT DYING CLIENT AFTER HIGH COURT JUDGMENT
4 November 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] INMATES SUE MINISTER FOR PRISON TORTURE BY DCS OFFICIALS
31 October 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] AFRICAN ORGANISATIONS PUSH FOR BINDING TREATY ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
16 October 2019
(Press release)
STATES MUST ADDRESS STATELESSNESS: NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT - A JOINT STATEMENT
7 October 2019
(News)
CLOSED - [JOB OPPORTUNITY]: ACCOUNTANT
4 October 2019
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE]: VICTORY FOR JADE SEPTEMBER AND THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY
26 September 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS CONFERENCE]: JUDGMENT IN THE CASE OF J SEPTEMBER
20 September 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: NATIONAL INDABA ON U.N. BINDING TREATY ON BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
17 September 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: LHR AND SONKE GENDER JUSTICE VICTORIOUS IN IMPROVING INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIAL INSPECTORATE FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
5 September 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: LHR ON ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THERE IS NO MONEY FOR STATE PLAN ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
4 September 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] LHR CONDEMNS RECENT ATTACKS ON FOREIGN NATIONALS
3 September 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] LHR COMMENTS ON REPORTS OF LOOTING OF FOREIGN-OWNED SHOPS IN PRETORIA CBD
30 August 2019
(Press release)
CLOSED - INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY - PENAL REFORM PROGRAMME
14 August 2019
(News)
- CLOSED -INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY - STRATEGIC LITIGATION
12 August 2019
(News)
- CLOSED - INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY - LAND AND HOUSING PROGRAMME
19 July 2019
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE]: SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL SECURES THE RIGHT TO BURY FOR THE LANDLESS
17 July 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: HIGH COURT DISMISSES ATTEMPT TO REVOKE STATELESS CHILD'S CITIZENSHIP
30 May 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: VICTORY FOR MONFLORAH PARK COMMUNITY AS EKURHULENI METRO POLICE ACTIONS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
7 May 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: HANDS OFF THE HOMELESS: LHR IN URGENT COURT ON BEHALF OF 100 EKURHULENI FAMILIES
6 May 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE]: LHR BRINGS LIFE-SAVING INTERVENTION ON BEHALF OF ASYLUM-SEEKER
3 May 2019
(Press release)
- CLOSED - CANDIDATE ATTORNEY OPPORTUNITY IN OUR DURBAN OFFICE
17 April 2019
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO
3 April 2019
(Press release)
ABANDONED CHILDREN FINALLY REGISTERED BY DEPARTMENT OF HOME AFFAIRS
26 March 2019
(Press release)
PRESS RELEASE: Lawyers for Human Rights Celebrates 40 Years of Making Rights Real
21 March 2019
(Press release)
- CLOSED - PARALEGAL OPPORTUNITY IN OUR MUSINA OFFICE
29 January 2019
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: HIGH COURT TO RULE ON KEY CHALLENGE TO REFUGEE APPEAL BOARD DECISION-MAKING
29 January 2019
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES IN FAVOUR OF ASYLUM SEEKERS
20 December 2018
(Press release)
PRESS RELEASE: PRIVATE PROPERTY THREATENS THE LIVELIHOOD OF WASTE PICKERS
12 December 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES PRESIDENT’S SUSPENSION OF SADC TRIBUNAL UNLAWFUL
12 December 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVE GRANTED LEAVE TO APPEAL AGAINST THE RESERVE BANK
11 December 2018
(Press release)
THE SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVE SEEKS LEAVE TO APPEAL JUDGMENT AGAINST THE RESERVE BANK
6 December 2018
(Press release)
MINISTER OF DEFENCE AND SANDF GRANTED A SECOND OPPORTUNITY TO OBEY THE MARIEVALE COURT ORDER
30 November 2018
(Press release)
JUSTICE AND LAND FOR THE GROOTKRAAL COMMUNITY!!!
28 November 2018
(Press release)
FROM JUDGMENT TO JUSTICE: THE MARIEVALE COMMUNITY BACK IN COURT WITH AN APPLICATION FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST THE MINISTER OF DEFENCE AND ARMY GENERALS
21 November 2018
(Press release)
HOME AFFAIRS TO DISCONTINUE BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR FOREIGN CHILDREN
14 November 2018
(Press release)
- CLOSED - INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY IN OUR UPINGTON OFFICE
13 November 2018
(News)
EQUALITY COURT TO HEAR CASE ON THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDER PRISONERS
31 October 2018
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT - MARY RAHUBE // HEDSRINE RAHUBE & OTHERS CASE NO CCT/319/2017
30 October 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] LHR to appear at the Constitutional Court to challenge the interpretation of the Refugee Act
29 October 2018
(Press release)
HOME AFFAIRS REOPENS REFUGEE OFFICE IN PORT ELIZABETH AFTER YEARS OF LITIGATION
26 October 2018
(Press release)
A MASSIVE VICTORY FOR THE LESETHLENG VILLAGE COMMUNITY
25 October 2018
(Press release)
DENNEBOOM TRADERS TAKE ON THE CITY MANAGER OF TSHWANE, THE MAYOR OF TSHWANE AND THE CEO OF ISIBONELO FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
23 October 2018
(Press release)
Civil Society Coordinating Collective (CSCC) lodges a complaint with the Electoral Commission of South Africa against the African Basic Movement (ABM) for infringement of the Electoral Code of Conduct.
22 October 2018
(Press release)
ACTIONAID AND AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS HOST DISCUSSION AT TREATY NEGOTIATIONS
18 October 2018
(Press release)
[Open Letter] South African Academics and NGOS welcome Draft of Treaty to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, the Activities of Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises
16 October 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE WORKERS WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY
16 October 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] Constitutional Judgement on Directive 21
9 October 2018
(Press release)
“THE CONTINUED PLIGHT OF THE MARIEVALE COMMUNITY”
9 October 2018
(Press release)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DISMISSES CHALLENGE TO STATE PENSION FUND CANCELLATION PROJECT
21 September 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] VICTORY FOR THE BLYVOORUITZICHT MINE COMMUNITY AS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT UPHOLDS ORDER SAFEGUARDING ACCESS TO WATER
14 September 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE GRIND SLOW FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MARIEVALE
11 September 2018
(Press release)
LHR in the SCA to fight for the rights of the homeless
10 September 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO RULE ON SUSPENSION OF SADC TRIBUNAL BY PRESIDENT
29 August 2018
(Press release)
[Press Release] 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
23 August 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] COURT ORDERS HOME AFFAIRS TO END A MOTHER’S 12 YEAR BATTLE TO REGISTER HER SON’S BIRTH
22 August 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] CENTRE FOR CHILD LAW AND LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ASK HIGH COURT TO ENSURE BIRTH REGISTRATION FOR CHILDREN OF UNMARRIED FATHERS
16 August 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION HOSTS INDABA ON PROPOSED UN BINDING TREATY
16 August 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] #NotOurLeaders
8 August 2018
(Press release)
LHR SUPPORTS #THETOTALSHUTDOWN
31 July 2018
(Press release)
LHR appoints two interim directors
31 July 2018
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] MASSIVE VICTORY AT THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT FOR OURSOURCED WORKERS
26 July 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] Constitutional Court to hand down judgement on the Assign Services v NUMSA and Others matter
25 July 2018
(Press release)
DHA finally gives abandoned child a birth certificate
24 July 2018
(Press release)
[JOINT PRESS RELEASE] CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS ON SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT TO CHANGE BIRTH REGISTRATION REGULATIONS
17 July 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] PRETORIA HIGH COURT JUDGEMENT CONDEMNS FLAWED REFUGEE ADJUDICATION PROCESS
16 July 2018
(Press release)
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
29 June 2018
(News)
Two LHR employees on the Mail & Guardian's 2018 List of 200 Young South Africans
29 June 2018
(News)
DAWID KRUIPER MUNICIPALITY UNLAWFULLY EVICTING VICTIMS OF XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS
26 June 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] NO MORE TIME LIMIT TO PROSECUTE SEXUAL OFFENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA
19 June 2018
(Press release)
[PRESENTATION] Legal Framework on Mine closure
4 June 2018
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] LESETHLENG VILLAGE COMMUNITY IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TOMORROW IN THEIR CONTINUED FIGHT AGAINST EVICTION BY THE MINE
23 May 2018
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT – MARY RAHUBE // HEDSRINE RAHUBE & OTHERS
17 May 2018
(Press release)
[Press Release] Ahmed and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Another CCT273/17
15 May 2018
(Press release)
[Press Release] SECOND VICTORY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF MARIEVALE!!!
10 May 2018
(Press release)
[Press Release] Marievale Community in back in Court today to fight illegal evictions by SANDF
2 May 2018
(Press release)
[Press Release] Marievale Community in Court today to fight illegal evictions by SANDF
17 April 2018
(Press release)
[Press Release] Mayor of Lusikisiki arrested for contempt of a court order
15 April 2018
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (9-13 April 2018)
9 April 2018
(News)
[Press Release] Victory for the homeless
3 April 2018
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] THE SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHIVE TAKES THE RESERVE BANK TO COURT OVER APARTHEID ERA RECORDS.
20 March 2018
(Press release)
The Week Ahead 19-23 March 2018
19 March 2018
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT: Mr Godfrey Mtenje and his family fight to inhabit a shack
19 March 2018
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (12-16 March 2018)
12 March 2018
(News)
[Press Statement] HIGH COURT RULES SUSPENSION OF SADC TRIBUNAL BY PRESIDENT UNCONSTITUTIONAL
9 March 2018
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (5-9 March2018)
5 March 2018
(News)
[VACANCY] Paralegal / Project officer: Migrant Paralegal Project
26 February 2018
(News)
LHR in the Constitutional Court tomorrow in the matter of Assign Services v. Numsa and Others
21 February 2018
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (19-23 February 2018)
19 February 2018
(News)
Victory for mining host communities in 2017 Charter postponement hearing
19 February 2018
(Press release)
LHR notes the statements released by the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources regarding postponement of the 2017 Mining Charter case
19 February 2018
(Press release)
Mining host communities in court to challenge 2017 Mining Charter
18 February 2018
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (12-16 February 2018)
12 February 2018
(News)
Constitutional Court to hear case of irregular cancellation of pension funds
12 February 2018
(Press release)
LHR Submissions to the SAHRC on the National Dialogue on Social Cohesion, Xenophobia and Migration
8 February 2018
(News)
CANDIDATE ATTORNEY PROGRAMME
2 February 2018
(News)
Join the Hate Crimes Working Group for the release of South Africa's most comprehensive report on hate crimes.
2 February 2018
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] LHR expresses its concern over the announcement by the Cabinet Justice cluster of Operation Fiela II
22 January 2018
(Press release)
In memory of Rudolph Jansen
27 November 2017
(Press release)
#NotOurLeaders Campaing launched during 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women
24 November 2017
(Press release)
LHR is delighted that the Pretoria High Court has allowed our clients to intervene in the review of the #MiningCharter
14 November 2017
(Press release)
The Blyvooruitzicht community continued struggle to access sufficient, clean and safe water
1 November 2017
(Press release)
KEITIKILE JAMPE V MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS AND 5 OTHERS CASE NO: 70333/17
23 October 2017
(News)
LHR condemns the arrest of 13 human rights defenders in Tanzania
23 October 2017
(Press release)
CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE AGAINST COURT RULES GOVERNING SALES IN EXECUTION OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTY
10 October 2017
(Press release)
INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR 2018
30 September 2017
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT – MARY RAHUBE // HEDSRINE RAHUBE & OTHERS CASE NO 101250/2015
26 September 2017
(Press release)
Lawyers For Human Rights in partnership with Tri Continental Film Festival TCFF presents, "Strike a Rock" and “Voetsek! Us, Brothers?” documentary screenings.
5 September 2017
(News)
Open letter to the Honourable Deputy-Minister Bongani Mkongi
15 August 2017
(News)
[Press Release] CAPES encourages labour brokers to disregard key judgement
14 August 2017
(Press release)
LHR sends condolences to the family of Nic Swart, CEO of the Law Society of South Africa
10 August 2017
(News)
Land Claims Court affirms the right of marginalised groups to a fair trial
8 August 2017
(News)
[Press Release] LHR rejects normalisation of violence against women
7 August 2017
(Press release)
We are looking for a new National Director
24 July 2017
(News)
Internship Opportunity
24 July 2017
(News)
We are hiring! We looking for a new Candidate Attorney
21 July 2017
(News)
Join us at PILG discussing the "Crisis in Social Care Services: Legal and Other Solutions"
19 July 2017
(News)
Constitutional court judgment dilutes rights of ESTA occupiers who face eviction
13 July 2017
(Press release)
Join us at the Public Interest law Gathering where will be discussing #OutsourcingMustFall
12 July 2017
(News)
[Press Release] Labour Appeal Court Upholds the Rights of vulnerable employees from abuse by Labour Brokers
11 July 2017
(Press release)
We’re Now on LinkedIn – Be Sure to Follow Us!
5 July 2017
(News)
[Press Statement] LHR issues writs for Municipal Manager and Mayor of Lusikisiki
5 July 2017
(Press release)
[Press Release] Constitutional Court Unanimously Upholds the Rights of All Detainees to Access to Courts
29 June 2017
(Press release)
[Press Release] Judgment Imminent in Immigration Detention Case
28 June 2017
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] Police failure to assist complainants in terms of the Domestic Violence Act is misconduct, and a disciplinable offence
21 June 2017
(Press release)
[Press Release] SYRIAN REFUGEE TO BE RELEASED FROM LINDELA REPATRIATION CENTRE
20 June 2017
(Press release)
Somali Association & 8 Others V Minister of Home Affairs & 4 Others Case no 99766/15
18 June 2017
(Press release)
[Press Release] Pretoria High Court prevents Anglo American from evicting 34 families
30 May 2017
(Press release)
[Press Statement] Lawyers for Human Rights Condemns SLAPP Suit Filed Against Centre for Environmental Rights
25 May 2017
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT: STATES ASK SOUTH AFRICA TO GIVE RIGHTS TO THE STATELESS
18 May 2017
(Press release)
[Press Statement] Sexual Offences Courts critical in the fight against GBV
18 May 2017
(Press release)
[Press Release] South Africa’s Reputation on the Line: International Report Launch Today
28 April 2017
(Press release)
Violence and Violations at Lindela Repatriation Centre
20 April 2017
(Press release)
Intern with us!
12 April 2017
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] GROOTKRAAL COMMUNITY APPROACHES HIGH COURT TO FIGHT AGAINST THE EVICTION OF THEIR SCHOOL
10 April 2017
(Press release)
"Making Rights Real"- President JZ must step down
5 April 2017
(News)
LHR sends condolences to the family of Ahmed Kathrada
28 March 2017
(News)
LHR in Constitutional Court tomorrow to argue that our clients must be afforded suitable alternative accommodation
22 March 2017
(News)
[PRESS RELEASE] The homeless have rights too #HumanRightsDay
21 March 2017
(Press release)
TODAY: Lawyers For Human Rights and the International Commission for Jurists launch a new Programme focusing on #SocioEconomicRights
16 March 2017
(News)
[Press Release] LHR to Challenge Constitutionality of Immigration Detention laws
13 March 2017
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] LAND CLAIMS COURT CONFIRMS THE RIGHT TO BURY ON FARMLAND
10 March 2017
(News)
LHR supports the nomination of a female to head-up the SCA #InternationalWomensDay
8 March 2017
(Press release)
[PRESS CONFERENCE] SUBMISSION MADE TO PARLIAMENT BY LEADING JURISTS AND RETIRED JUDGES ON RSA's DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM THE ICC
7 March 2017
(News)
JOINT PRESS RELEASE – EASTLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL
1 March 2017
(Press release)
Mashaba must resign: March failure shows majority reject xenophobia
24 February 2017
(News)
PRESS CONFERENCE – TUES, 21 FEB PRETORIA COMMUNITIES UNITED AGAINST XENOPHOBIA
20 February 2017
(Press release)
Sonke Gender Justice and Lawyers for Human Rights challenge the lack of independence of the Judicial Inspectorate
16 February 2017
(News)
[Press Release] Denneboom Informal Traders get a fair deal!
10 February 2017
(Press release)
[Press Statement] Civil society coalition vows to fight MPRDA Amendment to the Constitutional Court
10 February 2017
(Press release)
CANDIDATE ATTORNEY PROGRAMME
7 February 2017
(News)
We are back in court tomorrow for the Denneboom station informal traders case.
6 February 2017
(Press release)
6 million stateless children are innocent victims of discrimination and political indifference claims new report
2 February 2017
(News)
MEDIA STATEMENT: Sonke Gender Justice and Lawyers for Human Rights challenge the lack of independence of the Judicial Inspectorate
2 February 2017
(Press release)
[PRESS RELEASE] New report reveals devastating human toll of Blyvooruitzicht Mine liquidation
27 January 2017
(Press release)
PRESS CONFERENCE - REPORT PRESENTATION Blyvooruitzicht Mine Village: the human toll of state and corporate abdication of responsibility in South Africa
24 January 2017
(Press release)
LHR's presentation at the public hearings on the Refugees Amendment Bill, 2016
24 January 2017
(News)
MEDIA ALERT: Government ordered to reduce number of persons at Pollsmoor
5 December 2016
(Press release)
MEDIA ALERT: The MMC’s selective righteousness ignores citizens plight to adequate housing
5 December 2016
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (05- 09 December 2016)
5 December 2016
(News)
Media Alert: POLLSMOOR REMAND COURT CASE IN RESPONSE TO EXTREME OVERCROWDING TO BE HEARD ON MONDAY 5 DECEMBER 2016
1 December 2016
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (28 November- 02 December 2016)
28 November 2016
(News)
The Week Ahead (21-27 November 2016)
21 November 2016
(News)
MEDIA ALERT: Ingquza-Hill municipality ordered to provide temporary shelter or face jail
18 November 2016
(Press release)
MEDIA ALERT: When the government fails you all your life!
17 November 2016
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (14-19 November)
14 November 2016
(News)
OPEN LETTER: A CALL TO UPHOLD CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENTS AND TO VOTE AGAINST THE RESOLUTION TO SUSPEND THE WORK OF UN EXPERT ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY
9 November 2016
(News)
The Week Ahead (7-12 November 2016)
7 November 2016
(News)
MEDIA ALERT: LHR to Challenge Constitutionality of Immigration Detention laws
7 November 2016
(Press release)
LHR to Stand with Save SA over Gordhan Charges
31 October 2016
(News)
The Week Ahead (31 October - 4 November 2016)
31 October 2016
(News)
The Week Ahead (24- 28 October 2016)
24 October 2016
(News)
South Africa’s Intention to Withdraw from ICC
21 October 2016
(Press release)
Court rules that the Municipality must provide temporary shelter for families who lost their homes in Lusikisiki!
20 October 2016
(Press release)
“Blyvooruitzicht residents also have a right to access sufficient water"
18 October 2016
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (17- 21 October 2016)
17 October 2016
(News)
Our David vs Goliath case will be heard tomorrow at the North West High Court.
17 October 2016
(News)
Gigaba has so much to #SaySorry4
14 October 2016
(Press release)
Gendered Apartheid property laws need to be done away with!
11 October 2016
(Press release)
Press Statement: JSC looking at ways to smash the glass ceiling
10 October 2016
(Press release)
The Week Ahead (10- 15 October 2016)
10 October 2016
(News)
MEDIA ALERT: High Court rules on TUT eviction case
23 September 2016
(Press release)
MEDIA ALERT: South African government to account for progress on realising child rights
19 September 2016
(News)
Constitutional Court orders the Govan Mbeki Municipality to halt any further evictions
9 September 2016
(Press release)
Press Release: Stateless no more - a win for stateless children in South Africa - Supreme Court of Appeal: Minister of Home Affairs and others v DGLR and another (Case number 1051/2015 SCA)
6 September 2016
(Press release)
Statelessness in the spotlight in the Supreme Court of Appeal: Minister of Home Affairs and others v DGLR and another (Case number 1051/2015 SCA)
5 September 2016
(Press release)
PRESS RELEASE: "David-and-Goliath" Wilgespruit Community goes to the North West High Court over their land
23 August 2016
(Press release)
Press Conference: African high-level experts join forces against sexual violence ahead of FIDH 39th Congress
19 August 2016
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR takes TUT to court for failing to honour a court order instructing the University to allow students to return to residences
18 August 2016
(Press release)
Press Statement: This Month we remember the plights of the wives of the Mozambican mineworkers
11 August 2016
(News)
LHR appoints Sharon Ekambaram as the New Head of its Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme
1 August 2016
(News)
[PRESS ALERT] Bapsfontein Community a step closer to getting justice
27 July 2016
(Press release)
Introduction of Refugee Law Practice and Immigration Detention in Japan
21 July 2016
(News)
Joint Civil Society Statement: Lesotho Authorities Must Protect the Right to Freedom of Expression
12 July 2016
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: Decisions made at the UN Human Rights Council by the South African delegation simply contradict our constitution
7 July 2016
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT: Blyvooruizicht residents a step closer to accessing affordable prepaid electricity
5 July 2016
(Press release)
LHR speaks out on allegations made by the City of Tshwane on the Plastic View Case
4 July 2016
(Press release)
Life, Interrupted: Hundreds of inmates consider legal action over parole delays
29 June 2016
(News)
Sign our petition: End Childhood Statelessness in South Africa
20 June 2016
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: LHR applauds the Commission for Gender Equality recommendations on the Maidens “Virgins” Bursary Scheme
20 June 2016
(Press release)
MEDIA ALERT: LHR sends condolences to the family of advocate Jules Browde
1 June 2016
(Press release)
LHR expresses shock at the Kenyan government threat to close its refugee camps
11 May 2016
(Press release)
We are HIRING: Programme Manager: Refugee and Migrants Rights
6 May 2016
(News)
​​New Mobile Service Provides Low-Cost HUMAN Rights Information to Non-Nationals Living in South Africa
3 May 2016
(News)
Press release for International Labour Day: Voices from the Underground – the monopoly over personal information and how it prejudices migrant mineworkers and their widows
29 April 2016
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR Disappointed by Flawed Arms Deal Commission Investigation
21 April 2016
(Press release)
Press Statement by Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie Van Vuuren regarding the release of the SERITI COMMISSION REPORT into the ARMS DEAL
21 April 2016
(News)
Mamelodi Hostel Residents March, asking the City of Tshwane to address their Concern
15 April 2016
(News)
Press statement: LHR appoints new Media and Communications Officer
8 April 2016
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR welcomes the Report of the Special Reference Group on Migration and Community Integration in KZN
6 April 2016
(Press release)
NGO statement on Helen Suzman Foundation raid
23 March 2016
(Press release)
Press statement: African Civil Society Joins in Al-Bashir International Warrant Hearing
11 February 2016
(Press release)
Press statement: Scholarship for virgins violates rights and entrenches gender inequality
26 January 2016
(Press release)
LHR is hiring: Candidate attorney in Durban
21 January 2016
(Press release)
HIRING: Restaurant and events manager
21 January 2016
(Press release)
Prison probed for alleged abuse
26 November 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR welcomes victory for dental assistants
25 November 2015
(Press release)
Kgosi Mampuru prison officials investigated for torturing inmates
23 November 2015
(News)
Challenge to Immigration Act
20 November 2015
(News)
LHR wants prison torture claims investigated
19 November 2015
(News)
Human rights watchdog calls for probe into prison torture claims
19 November 2015
(News)
'Boko' terror in jails
18 November 2015
(News)
Press release: LHR calls for investigation into prison assaults and torture at Kgosi Mampuru II (Pretoria Central) Correctional Centre
18 November 2015
(Press release)
Press release: LHR welcomes sentencing of police officers responsible for Mido Macia’s death
12 November 2015
(Press release)
Invitation to photographic exhibition #IBelong - Ending Statelessness by 2024
11 November 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR launches constitutional challenge against section 34 of Immigration Act
11 November 2015
(Press release)
LHR in court to protect immigrant rights
11 November 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR pleased by dismissal of application against reopening PE reception office
10 November 2015
(Press release)
Training on Public Interest Litigation for Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders in Swaziland
6 November 2015
(Press release)
Jails’ ‘Boko Haram reign of terror’
6 November 2015
(News)
Press release: LHR successful in having water restored to Blyvooruitzicht community
1 November 2015
(Press release)
ANC invites Al-Bashir back to SA
12 October 2015
(News)
Urgent media briefing: UAC march continues despite Nedlac
28 September 2015
(Press release)
Media Invitation: Briefing by Civil Society organisations supporting the Unite Against Corruption marches
21 September 2015
(Press release)
TUT management joined in contempt bid
18 September 2015
(News)
Jail threat to three of TUT brass
18 September 2015
(News)
TUT former vice-chancellor to answer for contempt of court
18 September 2015
(News)
Press statement: TUT former vice-chancellor will be made to answer for contempt of court
17 September 2015
(Press release)
Statement on the Angolan cessation clause: former refugees from Angola face deportation as temporary permits expire
17 September 2015
(Press release)
Angola: Conviction of Jose Marcos Mavungo a blatant violation of freedom of expression
15 September 2015
(Press release)
MEC concerned about implementation of eviction laws
9 September 2015
(News)
The price of justice in South Africa
9 September 2015
(News)
Swaziland stands at the human rights precipice
8 September 2015
(Press release)
Detention Justice Forum Calls for Urgent Action In Response to Justice Edwin Cameron’s Report on “Sickening Conditions” in Pollsmoor Prison
8 September 2015
(Press release)
Tenants 'also have rights'
8 September 2015
(News)
Protection of tenants' rights during evictions
8 September 2015
(News)
Mangaung prison is a private hell
7 September 2015
(News)
NWest community wins court battle against mine company
7 September 2015
(News)
Mine to tear down internal fences on disputed North West land
7 September 2015
(News)
Pilanesberg mine to ‘halt activities while dispute is resolved’
7 September 2015
(News)
Mine to tear down internal fences on disputed North West land
7 September 2015
(News)
Conditions at Pollsmoor "profoundly disturbing", says judge
4 September 2015
(News)
Court rules in favour of Lesetlheng community
4 September 2015
(News)
Press statement: Settlement reached between Pilanesberg mine and Wilgespruit community
3 September 2015
(Press release)
Mangaung prison inmate 'tortured to death'
3 September 2015
(News)
A New Apartheid: South Africa's Struggle With Immigration
2 September 2015
(News)
North West community take on mining giant
2 September 2015
(News)
Constitutional Court ruling fails to catch imagination of commentators
2 September 2015
(News)
Lesetlheng village takes mine to court
1 September 2015
(News)
Angolan asylum seeker to test SA's love affair with China
31 August 2015
(News)
Platmin in hof gepak oor myn op plaas
31 August 2015
(News)
Charity must begin at home for graft-riddled Department of Home Affairs
28 August 2015
(News)
LHR is hiring!
26 August 2015
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights welcome verdict in Macia trial
26 August 2015
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights launch application to halt Pilanesberg mine in SA
26 August 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR welcomes conviction in murder trial of Mido Macia
25 August 2015
(Press release)
Urgent application launched to stop mining activities in North West
25 August 2015
(News)
Press statement: Urgent bid to halt mining in Wilgerspruit and restore community’s land ownership
24 August 2015
(Press release)
PE Home Affairs closed despite ConCourt ruling
21 August 2015
(News)
Property association wins battle for platinum-rich land in North West
21 August 2015
(News)
Top court rules for community in landmark case
21 August 2015
(News)
Constitutional Court judgment backs democratic control of land in traditional areas
21 August 2015
(News)
ConCourt hands land back to North West community
21 August 2015
(News)
Reflections On the Public Interest Law Gathering
19 August 2015
(News)
LHR in court for female-headed household facing eviction
13 August 2015
(Press release)
Home Affairs to comply with ConCourt's order
12 August 2015
(News)
ConCourt rules closing PE refugee office unlawful
11 August 2015
(News)
Bill opens asylum seekers’ hearings to public
11 August 2015
(News)
Immigrants contest lock-up in cop shop
11 August 2015
(News)
Treat prisoners as ‘cockroaches’ – Deputy Police Minister
8 August 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR alarmed at offensive remarks by Deputy Police Minister Sotyu during memorial address
7 August 2015
(Press release)
LHR condemns deputy police minister's remarks
7 August 2015
(News)
Press statement: Constitutional Court upholds ruling that PE Refugee Reception Office be reopened
6 August 2015
(Press release)
Wounded CT cop may have been targeted
6 August 2015
(News)
Corruption rife within asylum-seeking chain: Study
28 July 2015
(News)
Ruling offers children seeking asylum greater protection
28 July 2015
(News)
Team to halt Home Affairs rot
28 July 2015
(News)
Refugee centres: Corruption is threatening lives
27 July 2015
(News)
Home Affairs responds to corruption report
27 July 2015
(News)
Gigaba 'hellbent on cleaning the rot' in home affairs
25 July 2015
(News)
'Money for papers' at home affairs
24 July 2015
(News)
Marabastad refugee reception office corruption: 'Pay up if you want an asylum permit'
23 July 2015
(News)
Corruption at Home Affairs refugee centres in the spotlight
23 July 2015
(News)
Marabastad most corrupt refugee reception office in SA, report shows
23 July 2015
(News)
South Africa: Report On Corruption in Asylum System Must Be Tabled in Parliament
23 July 2015
(Press release)
Fleecing the forlorn
23 July 2015
(News)
Lifting the curtain on corruption in the refugee and asylum-seeking process
23 July 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR and ACMS launch report revealing rampant corruption within South Africa’s asylum system
22 July 2015
(Press release)
Need asylum in South Africa? Pay a bribe
22 July 2015
(News)
Corruption threatens asylum seekers in SA
22 July 2015
(News)
Report reveals shocking levels of corruption and serial abuse at SA refugee centres
22 July 2015
(News)
Corruption Watch shocked by bribes at refugee offices
22 July 2015
(News)
Calls for Home Affairs to end corruption at refugee centres
22 July 2015
(News)
Refugees face corruption tax at SA reception centre
22 July 2015
(News)
Refugees Face Bribe Demands in South Africa, Rights Groups Say
22 July 2015
(News)
EDITORIAL: Shift the paradigm on immigration
22 July 2015
(News)
Graft rules in asylum system
22 July 2015
(News)
SA’s refugee offices rife with bribes, says report
22 July 2015
(News)
Calls to investigate corruption at Home Affairs refugee offices
22 July 2015
(News)
Six payments refugees have to make to secure asylum in SA
22 July 2015
(News)
Horrifying accounts of torture in prison
21 July 2015
(News)
Swazi rule of law in the spotlight
18 July 2015
(News)
City to relocate Plastic View residents
18 July 2015
(News)
‘I will still write without fear or favour’
17 July 2015
(News)
Imprisoned rapist gets 10 years for three more rapes
17 July 2015
(News)
Invitation: PILG - Refugee and migrant rights seminar hosted by Lawyers for Human Rights
13 July 2015
(Press release)
Home Affairs 'is lying'
13 July 2015
(News)
Judgment on separated asylum seeker children: they will now be included in their caregiver’s applications
10 July 2015
(Press release)
Court rules in favour of asylum seeking children
10 July 2015
(News)
Disturbing court judgment ignores our rights
1 July 2015
(News)
Democracy centre launched
30 June 2015
(News)
Three powerful myths that fuel xenophobia
25 June 2015
(News)
Press statement: Application challenging Operation Fiela-Reclaim removed from urgent roll
24 June 2015
(Press release)
Three powerful myths that fuel xenophobia
24 June 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR files high court challenge against Operation Fiela-Reclaim
22 June 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: People’s coalition commits to fighting xenophobia in communities, workplaces and government on World Refugee Day
19 June 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR welcomes Constitutional Court’s stance on failure to adhere to court orders
18 June 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: South African government should be held accountable for flouting court order on Bashir
18 June 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: South Africa must enforce the ICC arrest warrants against Omar Al Bashir
15 June 2015
(Press release)
Blyvooruitzicht’s water to be restored
13 June 2015
(News)
Press statement: Court action averted with settlement in Blyvooruitzicht water crisis
12 June 2015
(Press release)
Liquidators allowed to probe water bill
12 June 2015
(News)
Water crisis plagues a small town in Carletonville
10 June 2015
(News)
Comment: Overcrowded jails deadly, inhumane
9 June 2015
(News)
Invitation: AU Summit parallel event - Policy Dialogue on Promoting Migration and Combatting Xenophobia: The Role of Regional Mechanisms
9 June 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR in urgent bid to have water restored to Blyvooruitzicht community
9 June 2015
(Press release)
Nice words, harsh deeds
5 June 2015
(News)
Comment: Overcrowded jails deadly, inhumane
5 June 2015
(News)
LHR launches revamped democracy centre
29 May 2015
(Press release)
Bakgatla case with far-reaching implications before top court
29 May 2015
(News)
FIDH opens an office in South Africa
28 May 2015
(Press release)
Dispossessed should not suffer twice
28 May 2015
(News)
Dispute over land pits community against chief
28 May 2015
(News)
SA prisons flout Mandela standard
23 May 2015
(News)
Bapsfontein ruling
21 May 2015
(News)
Joburg Theatre celebrates Africa Day
14 May 2015
(Press release)
Press statement: Civil society organisations address media on the ongoing raids targeting foreign nationals
12 May 2015
(Press release)
Media briefing: Civil society organisations to address media on the ongoing raids targeting foreign nationals
12 May 2015
(Press release)
Govt: Police & army raids not targeting foreigners
11 May 2015
(News)
Lawyers denied access to foreign nationals
11 May 2015
(News)
Statement: LHR concerned by ongoing raids
8 May 2015
(Press release)
Crime and punishment don't add up
8 May 2015
(News)
LHR building ties in Swaziland
6 May 2015
(Press release)
Home Affairs challenging order to reopen PE refugee centre
6 May 2015
(News)
Department to fight ruling to reopen Port Elizabeth refugee office
6 May 2015
(News)
State fails in obligations to refugees
29 April 2015
(News)
Judge For Yourself: Are refugee camps a solution to xenophobia?_part 1
29 April 2015
(News)
SALC and LHR present a seminar on “Protecting the Freedom of Expression and Association & the Rule of Law in Swaziland”
29 April 2015
(Press release)
After xenophobic attacks, S. African government blasted for tardy response
25 April 2015
(News)
Joint press statement: Surge in xenophobic violence in SA requires human rights-based immigration policy
22 April 2015
(Press release)
Human Rights lawyers push govt to address xenophobic issues
22 April 2015
(News)
Immigrants Fear Attacks, Face South Africa Police Harassment
21 April 2015
(News)
South Africa’s xenophobia problem: dispelling the myths
21 April 2015
(News)
Dear Mr President, criticism is a patriotic act: iLIVE
21 April 2015
(News)
LHR's David Cote discusses xenophobic violence on SABC Question Time
20 April 2015
(News)
Xenophobia in South Africa: why is there so much hatred for foreigners?
20 April 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR calls for strong political leadership as xenophobic violence rages on
17 April 2015
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights opposed to refugee camps
17 April 2015
(News)
Rather than fan flames, MPs must call department to order
16 April 2015
(News)
South Africa’s Zuma Calls Anti-Foreigner Violence ‘Shocking’
16 April 2015
(News)
Call to set up refugee camps
16 April 2015
(News)
ANC Call for Refugee Camps in South Africa Hit by Rights Groups
16 April 2015
(News)
Behind S.Africa's xenophobic attacks
16 April 2015
(News)
South Africa Grapples With Resurgence of Xenophobic Attacks
15 April 2015
(News)
Flames of hate engulf Durban
15 April 2015
(News)
LHR's Patricia Erasmus discusses xenophobic violence on Radio Islam
15 April 2015
(News)
LHR’s xenophobia interventions
15 April 2015
(Press release)
LHR’s xenophobia interventions
15 April 2015
(Press release)
UN expresses concern about Durban attacks
14 April 2015
(News)
Malawi, Somalia to save terrified citizens
14 April 2015
(News)
South Africa Struggles to Halt Wave of Attacks on Foreigners
14 April 2015
(News)
LHR alarmed at call for refugee camps
13 April 2015
(News)
Police treatment of foreigners slammed
13 April 2015
(News)
Leaders must speak wisely - Gigaba
11 April 2015
(News)
Refugees unlawfully detained at Lindela despite court order: lawyers
9 April 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR condemns ongoing xenophobic violence in Durban and calls for restraint
9 April 2015
(Press release)
Lawyers in bid to challenge law on arrests of foreigners
9 April 2015
(News)
Challenge to migrant detentions
9 April 2015
(News)
Anyone who thinks refugee camps are a good idea has never lived in one: The importance of recognising refugees' right to freedom of movement
9 April 2015
(News)
Baphiring clan go home after 40 years
8 April 2015
(News)
Human Rights Day event: Criminalising the poor
2 April 2015
(News)
Foreigners remark puts king in a fix
1 April 2015
(News)
SCA chastises Home Affairs
27 March 2015
(News)
Press release: Home Affairs ordered to reopen refugee office in Port Elizabeth
25 March 2015
(Press release)
Shack dwellers halt City of Tshwane sale of land they live on
25 March 2015
(News)
Return of the dompas: Institutional racism in 21st century South Africa
25 March 2015
(News)
Land claims a Sisyphean task for the state
25 March 2015
(News)
Victory for Plastic View
24 March 2015
(News)
Press release: Auction of Woodlane Village halted after urgent high court application
23 March 2015
(Press release)
Plastic View residents want to stop auction
23 March 2015
(News)
Press statement: Southern African human rights organisations call for end of solitary confinement of Thulani Maseko
20 March 2015
(Press release)
Invitation: Human Rights Day discussion
19 March 2015
(Press release)
Angola: Detained activists must be immediately and unconditionally freed
18 March 2015
(Press release)
Announcement of conditions related to the issuance of a Zimbabwe special dispensation permit.
17 March 2015
(Press release)
Press release: City of Tshwane to expropriate land for Kanana Village
13 March 2015
(Press release)
Refugee wins right to fight penalties
12 March 2015
(News)
Press statement: Court to rule on refugee children’s right to documentation
12 March 2015
(Press release)
EU backs IOM Southern Africa initiative on migrant mineworker rights
6 March 2015
(News)
Press statement: High court dismisses TUT rescission application in student eviction case
5 March 2015
(Press release)
Is it the law?
5 March 2015
(News)
Human rights group wants state hospital staff to be trained properly
5 March 2015
(News)
Sanco has no right to chase away foreigners: Zulu
4 March 2015
(News)
Bringing them back: How IOM is helping Mozambique connect with its diaspora
1 March 2015
(Press release)
Refugee wins asylum after 10 years in legal limbo
27 February 2015
(News)
Detention Justice Forum Annual General Meeting 2015: Forging synergies for human rights and dignity
27 February 2015
(Press release)
Press release: LHR clarifies misleading statements on right to health care for pregnant Zimbabwean national
25 February 2015
(Press release)
Human rights group looks to help those with no state and no future
24 February 2015
(News)
Prime Tshwane land for sale
23 February 2015
(News)
A state of statelessness
17 February 2015
(News)
'Mine took my fields for R5000'
16 February 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR launches guide to aid practitioners in eradicating statelessness in SA
13 February 2015
(Press release)
Cop ghost squad to 'clean up' city streets
12 February 2015
(News)
Law Focus: Xenophobic looting
5 February 2015
(News)
A day in the life of…
5 February 2015
(News)
SA hardens attitude to immigrants as attacks flare up
3 February 2015
(News)
Mozambique: IOM kicks off 18-month campaign for mineworker rights
2 February 2015
(Press release)
Mine lays claim to Mpumalanga water catchment area
30 January 2015
(News)
Xenophobic attacks: apartheid-thinking alive in South Africa
28 January 2015
(News)
Press statement: LHR condemns xenophobic violence and calls for calm
24 January 2015
(Press release)
Mokopane: Tale of a town on the brink
21 January 2015
(News)
Home Affairs officials not above the law
16 January 2015
(News)
Robert Friedland’s mining showdown in South Africa
13 January 2015
(News)
State officials brought down a few notches
8 January 2015
(News)
LHR to fight on for refugees
7 January 2015
(News)
Cops could be hauled to ICC for renditions
6 January 2015
(News)
Need that bullet removed from your arm? Then show us your papers
27 December 2014
(News)
South Africa's controversial new asylum form
12 December 2014
(News)
Arms deal middleman takes dig at inquiry
12 December 2014
(News)
Press release: "We fear the worst": Breaking the cycle of violence and impunity in South Sudan to prevent chaos
9 December 2014
(Press release)
Keynote address by Zwelinzima Vavi, Cosatu General Secretary, to the World Social Forum on Migration
8 December 2014
(News)
Police fire rubber bullets at Ivanhoe mine protesters
8 December 2014
(News)
ORAM congratulates EU Court of Justice for landmark decision on credibility assessment in LGBTI asylum claims
3 December 2014
(Press release)
Love in exile
2 December 2014
(News)
Refugee dies after SA hospital denies treatment, citing health act
28 November 2014
(News)
Organisations allege dreadful conditions at Pollsmoor awaiting trial facility
28 November 2014
(News)
STATEMENT: South Africa is Ferguson; Ferguson is South Africa
28 November 2014
(Press release)
Press release: Victory for Vaal communities as Supreme Court of Appeal orders ArcelorMittal to release environmental records
26 November 2014
(Press release)
Refugee dies before court challenge
25 November 2014
(News)
Foreign national dies before receiving life-saving chronic treatment
25 November 2014
(News)
Press statement: Refugee dies pending outcome of urgent court application
25 November 2014
(Press release)
LHR welcomes the promise of change at Marabastad Refugee Reception Office
21 November 2014
(Press release)
Groups commemorate 25th anniversary of the CRC by urging end to child immigration detention
21 November 2014
(Press release)
The Sowetan newspaper issues apology
19 November 2014
(News)
PTA residents up in arms about CPF frisk routines
19 November 2014
(News)
FIDH South Sudan Brief: “We fear the worst” - Breaking the cycle of violence and impunity in South Sudan to prevent chaos
13 November 2014
(Press release)
Home Affairs unmoved by report on new visa rules
13 November 2014
(News)
How will the UNHCR’s statelessness campaign affect Africa?
13 November 2014
(News)
Shaik denies arms deal wrongdoing
13 November 2014
(News)
Chippy Shaik brings renewed interest to arms deal
11 November 2014
(News)
Press statement: DMR grants Platreef mining execution in Mokopane while countless host community members' concerns still not answered
10 November 2014
(Press release)
Mad Hatters rule in Swaziland court
10 November 2014
(News)
Chippy Shaik brings renewed interest to arms deal
10 November 2014
(News)
Chippy unlikely to get a shakedown at arms deal commission
10 November 2014
(News)
LHR is hiring: Programme manager - Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme
6 November 2014
(Press release)
Zimbabweans applying for extended special visas
6 November 2014
(News)
MPs alarmed that four prison projects are still incomplete, years after due dates
6 November 2014
(News)
Death penalty: It’s not even the beginning of a solution
5 November 2014
(News)
UNHCR announces push to end statelessness worldwide by end-2024
4 November 2014
(Press release)
Home affairs trampled immigrant rights – judge
3 November 2014
(News)
Press release: Home Affairs reports back on how it is responding to Edwin Samotse¹s unlawful deportation to Botswana
31 October 2014
(Press release)
South Africa health system shuns asylum seekers
31 October 2014
(News)
LHR welcomes Zim torture decision
31 October 2014
(News)
Cops to comply with Zim torture ruling
31 October 2014
(News)
Police ‘have to probe torture in Zimbabwe’
31 October 2014
(News)
Zimbabwe Torture Case: Victory in the Constitutional Court
30 October 2014
(Press release)
Press release: LHR welcomes ruling compelling SAPS to investigate crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe
30 October 2014
(Press release)
Concourt: SA police obliged to probe Zim torture
30 October 2014
(News)
SAHRC invited to set up shop in Lindela
22 October 2014
(News)
Press statement: LHR responds to detention of immigrants at police stations and SAPS’ incorrect interpretation of immigration laws
21 October 2014
(Press release)
Two more arms deal critics refuse to testify
21 October 2014
(News)
Arms deal critic Van Vuuren keeps silent
21 October 2014
(News)
Arms deal critic warned on refusal to testify
21 October 2014
(News)
Inquiry puts whistleblowers on trial
21 October 2014
(News)
Statement by Hennie van Vuuren at Arms Procurement Commission on 20 October 2014
20 October 2014
(Press release)
Botswana tells red-faced SA it won't spare the noose
17 October 2014
(News)
Refugees: Out of the frying pan and into the fire of South Africa’s healthcare system
17 October 2014
(News)
Arms deal offsets 'seriously flawed'
17 October 2014
(News)
Statement on allegations made against the Wits Justice Project at the Oscar Pistorius sentencing hearing
17 October 2014
(Press release)
Police fail to investigate prison assaults
16 October 2014
(News)
Do not let fantasies detract from the depth of corruption, write Feinstein, Holden and van Vuuren
16 October 2014
(News)
Arms deal group condemns 'racist' commission statements
15 October 2014
(News)
FACTSHEET: The new special dispensation permit and what it means for Zimbabweans in SA
14 October 2014
(News)
Zimbabwe Special Permit Update: 41 000 permits approved after 1 Oct start date
14 October 2014
(News)
Scaling Lindela's security barrier
10 October 2014
(News)
Waiting for change at Lindela
10 October 2014
(News)
Hunger strikers: 'They shot us in the head at Lindela'
10 October 2014
(News)
Information on the Zimbabwe Special Permits
8 October 2014
(Press release)
Arms deal truth must out
8 October 2014
(News)
Ivanhoe blasts media report alleging South African transgressions
8 October 2014
(News)
Court victory for asylum seekers
7 October 2014
(News)
Arms deal fraudulent from start - activist
7 October 2014
(News)
Friedland's SA platinum project faces local challenge
7 October 2014
(News)
South Africa refugees deprived of education
6 October 2014
(News)
Botswana/South Africa: Edwin Samotse faces possible execution in secrecy
2 October 2014
(Press release)
‘Fixer’ could tell all about Zuma
2 October 2014
(News)
Arms Deal inquiry warns detractors
2 October 2014
(News)
Court defends rights of foreigners
30 September 2014
(News)
Seriti arms deal inquiry 'has failed'
30 September 2014
(News)
Zuma allegedly encouraged arms deal probe to leverage bribes
29 September 2014
(News)
Joint statement: Why the Arms Deal Commission must be dissolved
29 September 2014
(Press release)
SCA upholds appeal in Somali Association of South Africa & 5 Others v LEDET, Minister of Police, Minister of Home Affairs and Others
26 September 2014
(Press release)
Judgment to be handed down by SCA in Somali Association of South Africa & 5 Others v LEDET, Minister of Police, Minister of Home Affairs and Others
25 September 2014
(Press release)
Parliament calls on Government to implement the SAHRC's recommendations on Lindela
25 September 2014
(News)
Joint Civil Society Statement on the SAHRC's Lindela Report
25 September 2014
(Press release)
Home affairs must know the law - Gigaba
23 September 2014
(News)
SAHRC Investigates access to and quality of health care at Lindela
19 September 2014
(News)
Press statement: Court Reserves Judgment in Botswana Deportation Case to Tuesday 23 September 2014 at 10:00am
19 September 2014
(Press release)
Press statement: Botswana Deportation Application Stood Down until Thursday 18 September 2014 at 10am
18 September 2014
(Press release)
Press Release: LHR appeals high court dismissal of Somali Association of South Africa & 5 Others v Limpopo Department of Economic Development, the Environment and Tourism and 9 Others
17 September 2014
(Press release)
Press statement: Mokopane Communities in the dark about benefits from Ivanplats’ BBBEE transaction
16 September 2014
(Press release)
Arms deal critics face criminal action if they shun Seriti
16 September 2014
(News)
The life-or-death case you’d have missed on #OscarDay: Human rights, the law and Home Affairs
11 September 2014
(News)
Death penalty bungle
10 September 2014
(News)
Press release: Public violence charges withdrawn against Rustenburg mineworkers
9 September 2014
(Press release)
Home Affairs inquires illegal deportation
9 September 2014
(News)
Deported Botswana national ‘in danger’
8 September 2014
(News)
Deported Botswana national ‘in danger’
8 September 2014
(News)
Botswana man’s deportation probed
8 September 2014
(News)
'South Africa hospital saved my life': Somali girl
5 September 2014
(News)
Press statement: Home Affairs thwarts law again – deports Botswana national at risk of death penalty
4 September 2014
(Press release)
Seriti commission to subpoena arms deal critics
4 September 2014
(News)
Modise's family gun for the wrong man at arms commission
4 September 2014
(News)
Arms deal critics lose faith in inquiry, decline to testify
29 August 2014
(News)
Arms commission mulls critics’ withdrawal
29 August 2014
(News)
Key witnesses quit arms deal probe, citing 'second agenda'
28 August 2014
(News)
Media Statement: Withdrawal from the Arms Procurement Commission
28 August 2014
(Press release)
Press statement: Feinstein, Holden and van Vuuren withdraw from Seriti Commission of Inquiry
28 August 2014
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR welcomes sentencing of Tshwane metro police officer found guilty of kidnapping and assault
22 August 2014
(Press release)
Leeuwkop Max C: Inmates claim abuse and torture, turn to courts for relief
22 August 2014
(News)
Joint media release: LHR and CER ask ministers to address health risks posed by North West water quality
14 August 2014
(Press release)
Press statement: Lawyers for Human Rights responds to new Zimbabwe permit announcement
12 August 2014
(Press release)
Refugee school fights for survival
11 August 2014
(News)
So farce, so good: Zuma and the arms deal
11 August 2014
(News)
SALC statement on Swazi prime minister’s comments threatening civil society activists
8 August 2014
(Press release)
Quitting Seriti commission: Arms deal 'letter bomb'
8 August 2014
(News)
Did Parliament really sign off on the arms deal?
7 August 2014
(News)
Prison corruption taking us backwards
6 August 2014
(News)
Somali girl still awaits heart op
6 August 2014
(News)
“My whole life has come to a standstill because of these court officials”
5 August 2014
(News)
When perpetrator becomes victim: reports on torture in South Africa
5 August 2014
(News)
Open letter to the US and heads of African state and governments
1 August 2014
(Press release)
Arms Deal: seven facts that aren’t going away
31 July 2014
(News)
Joint media statement: Civil society organisations condemn unreasonable sentence of prominent Swaziland activists
25 July 2014
(Press release)
Arms deal commission phase two: Enter the whistle-blowers
21 July 2014
(News)
Zim braced for wave of deportees
21 July 2014
(News)
Seriti: Mbeki denies knowing about international investigations
19 July 2014
(News)
Somali girl to receive medical treatment in SA
19 July 2014
(News)
Somali girl to get life-saving treatment
19 July 2014
(News)
Why arms not ARVs, Mbeki asked
19 July 2014
(News)
Mbeki denies arms deal hurt Aids patients
19 July 2014
(News)
Press release: LHR and Steve Biko Hospital reach agreement on treatment for 12-year-old asylum-seeker
18 July 2014
(Press release)
Hospital to dying child: No papers, no cash? No treatment
18 July 2014
(News)
Somali refugee girl needs urgent op
18 July 2014
(News)
No heart surgery for ailing girl
18 July 2014
(News)
Press release: LHR disappointed by guilty verdict in case of Thulani Maseko and Bhekithemba Makhubu
17 July 2014
(Press release)
Arms deal: Was Thabo Mbeki complicit?
17 July 2014
(News)
Justice minister offers petty criminals a carrot
17 July 2014
(News)
Victims to be videolinked to parole cases
17 July 2014
(News)
Urgent press release: LHR seeks urgent medical treatment for gravely ill 12-year-old asylum-seeker
16 July 2014
(Press release)
Red Ants will have to issue 48-hour eviction notices
15 July 2014
(News)
Press statement: LHR appalled by arrest of over 100 community healthcare workers and TAC members
11 July 2014
(Press release)
New SA visa rules force 250 000 Zimbabweans to decide on returning home
11 July 2014
(News)
Why "Prime Evil" should be released: Rights lawyer
11 July 2014
(News)
Poor are entitled to a fair trial
10 July 2014
(News)
Press statement: Community organisation appeals against Platreef Resources’ mining right
8 July 2014
(News)
SA adopts stateless baby
8 July 2014
(News)
Press release: High court recognises child as stateless and declares her to be a SA citizen
7 July 2014
(Press release)
Bribes under spotlight in arms probe
7 July 2014
(News)
Refugee children win right to learn
7 July 2014
(News)
“All I want is some recognition”
7 July 2014
(News)
Mbeki to testify at arms inquiry
4 July 2014
(News)
Arms deal 'critics' face new challenges at commission hearings
3 July 2014
(News)
The arms deal: Does anybody still care?
2 July 2014
(News)
Any place but home for record number of people
27 June 2014
(News)
Policing in South Africa: it doesn't have to be the low road
27 June 2014
(News)
SABC Newsroom - 26 June 2014
26 June 2014
(News)
Treated like scum
23 June 2014
(News)
Business as usual in Leeuhof Prison
22 June 2014
(News)
Press release: World Refugee Day witnesses rise in xenophobic tensions across South Africa
20 June 2014
(Press release)
Lawyers want access to arms deal docs
19 June 2014
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: Setting the record straight on access to key evidence from the Arms Procurement Commission
18 June 2014
(Press release)
Arms deal politicians stick to guns
15 June 2014
(News)
Inside cell 14
15 June 2014
(News)
Manuel denies wrongdoing comment claim
13 June 2014
(News)
Manuel concludes arms deal evidence
13 June 2014
(News)
State ‘made sure it could afford arms deal’
12 June 2014
(News)
Lekota rejects assertion that ANC benefited from arm deals
11 June 2014
(News)
Chippy Shaik's minutes: Why did we buy Hawk jets?
11 June 2014
(News)
Minutes in arms deal missing
11 June 2014
(News)
Human rights lawyers take on Judge Willie Seriti
11 June 2014
(News)
The arms deal affordability report: What did the ministers know?
10 June 2014
(News)
Kasrils refuses to answer for Modise's arms deal decisions
9 June 2014
(News)
Arms deal: Kasrils denies responsibility
9 June 2014
(News)
Radio Today: New immigration regulations
9 June 2014
(News)
Home Affairs list the details of the new Visa Facilitation Centres
6 June 2014
(News)
Call for fairness at arms deal probe
6 June 2014
(News)
Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko's statement
5 June 2014
(Press release)
Press release: LHR challenges constitutionality of detention procedures at Lindela Repatriation Centre
5 June 2014
(Press release)
Thulani Maseko takes swipe at judiciary, chief justice
5 June 2014
(News)
Arms transparency can backfire
4 June 2014
(News)
Zimbabweans face permit backlog
3 June 2014
(News)
No learning for orphans
3 June 2014
(News)
Court action looms for Department of Home Affairs
3 June 2014
(News)
Arms deal commission unlikely to shed further light
2 June 2014
(News)
Lawyers plan to contest new immigration laws
29 May 2014
(News)
Arms deal critics accuse commission of holding up process
29 May 2014
(News)
Arms deal lawyers complain of red tape, obstructions
29 May 2014
(News)
Lawyers 'denied cross-examination of witness'
29 May 2014
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: Arms Deal Commission continues prejudicial procedures
28 May 2014
(Press release)
What 'Chippy' Shaik did in the arms deal according to a former Rear Admiral
28 May 2014
(News)
Admiral who got arms company job denies graft
28 May 2014
(News)
No learning for orphans
27 May 2014
(News)
Arms Procurement Commission: Big guns, finally out in the open
23 May 2014
(News)
A solidarity jazz concert at The ORBIT
21 May 2014
(Press release)
SA police fight order to probe crimes against humanity in Zim
20 May 2014
(News)
SA police ‘powerless’ to probe foreign crimes
20 May 2014
(News)
Concourt hears arguments in Zim torture case
20 May 2014
(News)
Arms deal to hot up with Mbeki, Manuel's testimony
19 May 2014
(News)
Advisory: Zimbabwe torture docket case heads to ConCourt
16 May 2014
(Press release)
Arms deal ‘fraud, manipulation’ exposed
16 May 2014
(News)
Bosses ‘flouted’ trusted system
15 May 2014
(News)
Refugees on the poll agenda
8 May 2014
(News)
Cape Town harbour ‘nerve centre’ opens
5 May 2014
(News)
Mbeki to testify before arms deal commission
29 April 2014
(News)
Doing the sums on the arms deal
23 April 2014
(News)
Arms deal documents nightmare
23 April 2014
(News)
Calls mount for Apartheid looters to be held accountable
22 April 2014
(News)
Overstay and face ban, warns Home Affairs
15 April 2014
(News)
Seriti commission: Aboobaker's resignation won't affect commission
14 April 2014
(News)
Arms deal cost R46bn, Treasury reveals
10 April 2014
(News)
South Africa: Regional leader or xenophobe?
10 April 2014
(News)
Torture of suspects, prisoners on the rise
3 April 2014
(News)
New Births and Deaths Regulations in force since 1 March 2014
27 March 2014
(News)
TB rampant in South African prisons
27 March 2014
(News)
Draft immigration regulations: Cross-border complexity
24 March 2014
(News)
Press statement: Lawyers for Human Rights alarmed by irregular arrests and detentions in Swaziland
20 March 2014
(Press release)
A sick system abuses its refugees
16 March 2014
(News)
Tighter immigration rules could harm asylum seekers, gay couples
13 March 2014
(News)
Carolina residents urged to use tap water following contamination
13 March 2014
(News)
Draft rules for refugees ‘harsh and impractical’
10 March 2014
(News)
Arms deal critic stymied by Catch-22 rules
9 March 2014
(News)
Press statement: Carolina borehole water contaminated
6 March 2014
(Press release)
Carolina se boorgate is besoedel
6 March 2014
(News)
Armscor defends its counter-trade deals
5 March 2014
(News)
Stateless and stuck in limbo
4 March 2014
(News)
Judge disappointed at another arms-deal commission delay
4 March 2014
(News)
The struggle for the truth continues
1 March 2014
(News)
Press statement: Outcome of press briefing by Andrew Feinstein and Hennie van Vuuren
28 February 2014
(Press release)
Feinstein launches arms deal salvo
27 February 2014
(News)
Andrew Feinstein: 'Still to early to have commission scrapped'
27 February 2014
(News)
Arms Deal critics to ensure that bribe recipients in the arms deal are brought to book
27 February 2014
(News)
Arms deal critics: Seriti commission must continue
27 February 2014
(News)
Arms deal critics are optimistic
27 February 2014
(News)
Arms probe questioning inadequate, say critics
27 February 2014
(News)
Witnesses query arms deal inquiry
27 February 2014
(News)
Senior arms deal counsellor retracts resignation
25 February 2014
(News)
Seriti probe's cautious style risks hiding dirty secrets
23 February 2014
(News)
Thousands of duplicate SA ID documents invalidated
21 February 2014
(News)
Lawyers’ fees under the spotlight
21 February 2014
(News)
Editorial: Shut down the arms deal farce
21 February 2014
(News)
Secret documents haunt arms deal commission
19 February 2014
(News)
Human Rights lawyers demands access to top secret Arms contracts
19 February 2014
(News)
Arms deal inquiry hits a wall
19 February 2014
(News)
Erwin not cross-examined on arms deal as contracts still secret
19 February 2014
(News)
Immigrants to SA have a torrid time
19 February 2014
(News)
Press release: Key Arms Deal documents remain hidden from public view
18 February 2014
(Press release)
In hindsight, arms deal was not total success - Erwin
18 February 2014
(News)
Erwin’s arms deal offset flop
17 February 2014
(News)
Arms deal postponement exposes commission's flaws
17 February 2014
(News)
Court ruling - TUT must explain contempt
5 February 2014
(News)
GroundUp: Home Affairs uses ‘sad and bad’ court ruling against refugees
5 February 2014
(News)
Police appeal against order to investigate Zimbabwe crimes
4 February 2014
(News)
TUT students vow to stage mass protest
3 February 2014
(News)
Press statement: TUT in contempt of court order allowing students to return to residences
3 February 2014
(Press release)
Refugee mental health programme extended
26 January 2014
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT: Tshwane metro officer convicted of kidnapping and assault of Zimbabwean street traders
24 January 2014
(Press release)
Soweto unrest shows lack of compassion for foreigners, says LHR
24 January 2014
(News)
'Lack of compassion for foreigners'
24 January 2014
(News)
Press release: SALC/ZEF challenge appeal against investigation into crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe
22 January 2014
(Press release)
SA accused of 'abusing' courts after fresh torture case appeal
22 January 2014
(News)
Govt owns up to land reform failures
10 January 2014
(News)
Bridging the gap in mental health
11 December 2013
(News)
Press Release: LHR granted leave to appeal decision on refugees’ right to work and operate businesses
11 December 2013
(Press release)
Lawyers praise Nelson Mandela’s leadership qualities
7 December 2013
(News)
Press release: Saying farewell to a legend
6 December 2013
(Press release)
Press Release: Legal challenge on refugees’ right to work and operate businesses
2 December 2013
(Press release)
SA judgments ‘do not apply in Zimbabwe’
29 November 2013
(News)
Why long arm of SA law reaches into Zim
28 November 2013
(News)
South African court orders probe of Zimbabwe torture allegations
27 November 2013
(News)
Press release: State’s appeal against high court Torture Docket judgment dismissed
27 November 2013
(Press release)
Press release: Supreme Court of Appeal orders South African police to investigate crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe
27 November 2013
(Press release)
MEDIA SUMMARY OF JUDGMENT DELIVERED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL
27 November 2013
(Press release)
Seriti rules out use of AG report at arms deal inquiry
27 November 2013
(News)
Arms Deal inquiry adjourned to the new year
26 November 2013
(News)
Arms deal: Shrinking legal team impairs probe
22 November 2013
(News)
Arms commission stutters amid tussle over documents
22 November 2013
(News)
Arms deal inquiry postponed
22 November 2013
(News)
Arms deal inquiry: What’s the point?
20 November 2013
(News)
Press release: The Arms Deal Commission - Seriti commission plagued by delays
20 November 2013
(Press release)
Arms deal: Witnesses escape through 'phase' loophole
8 November 2013
(News)
Q&A: Arms deal critic Paul Holden
8 November 2013
(News)
Arms deal critic slates commission's handling of witness testimonies
7 November 2013
(News)
SA should be magnet for Africa’s best
6 November 2013
(News)
Judgement reserved in Zim torture appeal
4 November 2013
(News)
'Foreign shopkeepers go to SCA'
1 November 2013
(News)
‘Hostility against foreigners on the rise’
1 November 2013
(News)
ID crisis deals heavy blow to teen
28 October 2013
(News)
31% of Home Affairs Online Birth Registration Facilities Offline
28 October 2013
(Press release)
Lawyers axed for lack of loyalty to Seriti
27 October 2013
(News)
Somalis fear South African violence more than war at home
22 October 2013
(News)
Update on Schubart Park
22 October 2013
(Press release)
Foreigners lose spaza shops battle
22 October 2013
(News)
Former Schubart Park residents unhappy with rehousing schedule
22 October 2013
(News)
Arms deal commission hearing "one-sided" evidence, say 'critics'
22 October 2013
(News)
Reach of Rome statute to head back to appeal court
15 October 2013
(News)
Witnesses question arms commission's opaqueness
15 October 2013
(News)
Arms deal inquiry hampered by hidden details
15 October 2013
(News)
Press release: The Arms deal: Seriti Commission must clear the obstacles to truth
14 October 2013
(Press release)
Transparency needed in arms probe: R2K
14 October 2013
(News)
Clampdown on undocumented farmworkers - Pandor
11 October 2013
(News)
Mental health project kicks off in Gauteng
11 October 2013
(Press release)
Public protector lends sympathetic ear to community’s woes
11 October 2013
(News)
Legal fight goes on for stateless persons
7 October 2013
(News)
Millions of people in SA remain stateless
7 October 2013
(News)
Carolina water crisis is a rainstorm away
4 October 2013
(News)
Home Affairs tackles identity theft
3 October 2013
(News)
Poor conditions in SA prisons
1 October 2013
(News)
Pandor stands by decision to invalidate multiple IDs
27 September 2013
(News)
Break the resource curse and share the spoils of mining
25 September 2013
(News)
Locals up in arms over big new mine
25 September 2013
(News)
Zimbabwe Emigrants’ Return Plans Thwarted by Mugabe Victory
23 September 2013
(News)
ID blocking “can create nationality crises”
23 September 2013
(News)
Department of No Home Affairs: Stateless in South Africa
13 September 2013
(News)
Watershed
12 September 2013
(News)
Baphiring land claim thrown a lifeline
10 September 2013
(News)
Villagers take on platinum giant
8 September 2013
(News)
Press statement: Lawyers for Human Rights' appeal upheld in Baphiring land claim
6 September 2013
(Press release)
New NPA head must have clean record
30 August 2013
(News)
Limpopo mining: Dream fields lie fallow under dust
30 August 2013
(News)
Limpopo mining: Dream fields lie fallow under dust
30 August 2013
(News)
Time running out for Zuma
30 August 2013
(News)
Land rights under spotlight at Pan African Parliament
19 August 2013
(News)
Mogoeng impeachment call opposed
14 August 2013
(News)
Statement on the Complaint against the Chief Justice
14 August 2013
(Press release)
Marikana: Justice requires lawyers for the miners
13 August 2013
(Press release)
R1bn land claim: deal or no deal?
11 August 2013
(News)
Malamala price ‘still to be negotiated’
6 August 2013
(News)
Government to pay R1 billion for Mala Mala game reserve
5 August 2013
(News)
SAFM current affairs programme on Limpopo traders
5 August 2013
(News)
Zimbabwean refugees: Between haven and hell
1 August 2013
(News)
Trafficking in Persons Bill signed into law
30 July 2013
(News)
R45 000 for a day’s work
28 July 2013
(News)
African Integration: What do New National IDs in Lesotho and South Africa Mean?
26 July 2013
(News)
Press statement: Judgment reserved in case against discriminatory targeting of foreign traders in Limpopo
25 July 2013
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR to challenge targeting of foreign traders in Limpopo
25 July 2013
(Press release)
Traders want an end police ‘discrimination’
24 July 2013
(News)
Foreign nationals head to court over trading permits in Limpopo
24 July 2013
(News)
Seminar on the future of asylum in South Africa
18 July 2013
(Press release)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR successful in preventing further unlawful evictions in Atteridgeville
17 July 2013
(Press release)
Legal professionals under threat: Semenya
14 July 2013
(News)
Is SA the largest recipient of asylum-seekers worldwide? The numbers don’t add up
11 July 2013
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: Court orders City of Tshwane to rebuild Bronkhorstspruit homes after illegal eviction
10 July 2013
(Press release)
Foreigners: Dozens killed, thousands displaced in SA
10 July 2013
(News)
Public statement: Amnesty condemns forcible returns to Somalia
3 July 2013
(Press release)
Press statement: NGO statement on international protection at standing committee of high commissioner's programme
26 June 2013
(Press release)
Press release: Concerns on the human rights and humanitarian situation of the stateless Rohingya
24 June 2013
(Press release)
Tshwane may land in court over demolitions
23 June 2013
(News)
Arms commission hires top silks
23 June 2013
(News)
eNCA: Child detention highlighted
22 June 2013
(News)
Press release: LHR/CoRMSA/ACMS screen Invisible Picture Show to highlight concerns about child immigration detention
21 June 2013
(Press release)
Refugees celebrate ruling
21 June 2013
(News)
Press statement: LHR wins fight against closure of PE refugee reception office on World Refugee Day
20 June 2013
(Press release)
Minnesotans demand justice for Somali shop owner killed in South Africa riot
19 June 2013
(News)
‘Stop killing us’
8 June 2013
(News)
LHR PUBLIC STATEMENT: It’s unhelpful to deny that it’s xenophobia
7 June 2013
(Press release)
Solar geysers get a cool reception in Riverlea
7 June 2013
(News)
SA criticised for ‘dismissing’ problem of xenophobia
7 June 2013
(News)
Xenophobia attacks not over: LHR
7 June 2013
(News)
Xenophobia attacks not over – LHR
7 June 2013
(News)
Shocking anti-migrant sentiment exposed
4 June 2013
(News)
Home Affairs Budget Speech, May 2013
30 May 2013
(News)
Arms deal witnesses ‘threatened’
20 May 2013
(News)
Lawyers hope to set land reform precedent
16 May 2013
(News)
MEDIA RELEASE: LHR to set precedent in post-settlement support with Baphiring land claim
3 May 2013
(Press release)
Kids seeking asylum score court victory
3 May 2013
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: LHR and CCL win bid to allow separated refugee children into public school
30 April 2013
(Press release)
South Africa's flawed asylum system
30 April 2013
(News)
South Africa's flawed asylum system
30 April 2013
(News)
Hostel dwellers still live in squalor
29 April 2013
(News)
R85m wasted on building
29 April 2013
(News)
Baphiring land claim back in court
29 April 2013
(News)
Culture of disbelief works against asylum seekers
26 April 2013
(News)
Riverlea to sue state depts, DRD Gold over poisonous dust
26 April 2013
(News)
State's 'refugee border camps' bid challenged
24 April 2013
(News)
MalaMala land claim case heads for Constitutional Court
24 April 2013
(News)
Refugees vs Home Affairs, judgment reserved
20 April 2013
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: Judgment reserved in challenge against closure of PE refugee reception office
20 April 2013
(Press release)
Rockville: The people who 'live in shit'
19 April 2013
(News)
Fight over refugee reception centre in court
19 April 2013
(News)
Port Elizabeth's Refugee centre in court battle
19 April 2013
(News)
PRESS NOTIFICATION: Hearing challenging closure of PE refugee reception office to be heard
18 April 2013
(Press release)
Dream house deluged in sewage
11 April 2013
(News)
Rockville challenges sewerage plant's expansion
10 April 2013
(News)
Abuse at OR Tambo airport alleged
10 April 2013
(News)
LHR mourns the loss of former colleague Soja Legoabe
27 March 2013
(News)
LHR report and exhibition illustrate significant barriers to nationality in SA
27 March 2013
(Press release)
JOINT STATEMENT: Human rights organisations condemn arrest and continued detention of Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa
18 March 2013
(Press release)
SA 'will not extend' Zimbabwean document drive
16 March 2013
(News)
OPINION: Judges sidestep the law and fail to protect the vulnerable
9 March 2013
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights calls for urgent probe of taxi driver’s death
4 March 2013
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR condemns alleged police brutality following taxi driver's death in Daveyton
1 March 2013
(Press release)
Challenge to closure of refugee office to be heard
28 February 2013
(News)
Policy shift ‘could lead to refugee camps’
19 February 2013
(News)
Hard line on immigration ‘no answer’
18 February 2013
(News)
Shift in approach to asylum-seekers: LHR report
16 February 2013
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR and ACMS report reveals major policy shifts in asylum system
15 February 2013
(Press release)
Death penalty put on trial
13 February 2013
(News)
Law to bar foreign ownership of SA farms
13 February 2013
(News)
ConCourt rules residents cannot be evicted without court order
7 February 2013
(Press release)
Analysis: Refugees aim for self reliance, not hand outs
7 February 2013
(News)
Solving statelessness in Southern Africa
31 January 2013
(News)
LHR: Lack of consultation to blame for Sasolburg violence
28 January 2013
(Press release)
Farm workers’ toil rewarded with degrading wages
28 January 2013
(Press release)
Pandor in urgent bid to solve ‘unclaimed’ illegal immigrant problem
28 January 2013
(News)
Press Release: LHR disappointed by minister of home affairs' reaction to situation at Lindela
25 January 2013
(Press release)
Home affairs minister visits Lindela repatriation centre
25 January 2013
(News)
Nightmarishly difficult for some refugee children to go to school
24 January 2013
(News)
New citizenship laws now in effect
22 January 2013
(News)
Home Affairs ‘failing to protect migrant farmworkers’
18 January 2013
(News)
No clarity on scarce skills in country
15 January 2013
(News)
Zimbabwe proposes new border post with SA
9 January 2013
(News)
Press Release: Urgent call for Schubart Park residents to register
9 January 2013
(Press release)
Zimbabweans ordeal at SA's detention centres
7 January 2013
(News)
ANC mulls tough plans to curb tide of refugees
28 December 2012
(News)
Home affairs to only issue unabridged birth certificates
13 December 2012
(News)
SAPS slammed for use of teargas at Zim border
12 December 2012
(News)
Somali Refugees Struggle in South Africa
7 December 2012
(News)
South Africa Govt Facing Contempt Charges Over Refugee Office Closures
7 December 2012
(News)
High Court declares Refugee Appeal Board Rules invalid and and exclude media from RAB hearings
6 December 2012
(Press release)
Migrants Suffer as South Africa’s Refugee System Crumbles
6 December 2012
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR makes statelessness submissions before Parliament
3 December 2012
(Press release)
Refugee ‘camps’ plan for SA borders
3 December 2012
(News)
PRESS STATEMENT: LHR and LRC take on Rustenburg municipality's failures on upgrades to Tlabane hostels in the ConCourt
27 November 2012
(Press release)
Zimbabwe: Ongoing risks for human rights defenders in the context of political deadlock and pre-electoral period
26 November 2012
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights and City of Johannesburg reach settlement on Marlboro Gardens
21 November 2012
(Press release)
Kgobudi Community challenges Platreef mining company's interdict to keep them off their land
12 October 2012
(Press release)
UNHCR Executive Committee: NGO Statement on International Protection is vocal on closing of asylum space in South Africa
3 October 2012
(News)
UNHCR releases new guidelines on the detention of asylum seekers
27 September 2012
(News)
Breaking the Law, Breaking the Bank: The Cost of Home Affairs' Illegal Detention Practices
25 September 2012
(Press release)
Press Release: Launch of Lawyers for Human Rights 2012 Detention Report and collaboration with the End Child Detention Campaign
19 September 2012
(Press release)
Global Campaign to End Child Detention to focus on South Africa
5 September 2012
(News)
30 Aug: International Day of the Disappeared, International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances Statement
29 August 2012
(Press release)
Bid to gag Magaliesburg landowner for 'bad-mouthing' mine (Pretoria News)
21 August 2012
(News)
Residents to challenge illegal eviction in Marlboro Gardens
3 August 2012
(Press release)
Municipalities take new steps to avoid obligation to provide water to Carolina community
31 July 2012
(Press release)
Scalabrini Press Release: Court Orders Cape Town Refugee Reception Office to Accept New Asylum Applicants
26 July 2012
(Press release)
Press statement: LHR to challenge targeting of foreign traders in Limpopo
22 July 2012
(Press release)
Civil Society makes another litigation attempt to stop the closure of RROs
20 July 2012
(Press release)
Press release - Carolina residents to oppose municipalities' leave to appeal application
17 July 2012
(Press release)
Nasty, brutish an short - Commentary by Pierre de Vos
17 July 2012
(News)
Press release: Judgment in the Carolina water pollution case
10 July 2012
(Press release)
Judgment - Federation for Sustainable Environment and Silobela Community v Minister of Water Affairs and Others (Carolina water case)
10 July 2012
(News)
Carolina residents take fight to court
2 July 2012
(News)
‘Meaningless’ system for asylum-seekers at mercy of poor rulings
19 June 2012
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights Press Statement on World Refugee Day 20 June
19 June 2012
(Press release)
MSF, SECTION 27, LHR and PASSOP ask SAHRC to investigate the state of health and health care service provision at Lindela Repatriation Centre
13 June 2012
(Press release)
SAHRC expresses concern about the ill treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
13 June 2012
(Press release)
Criminal action possible in Carolina water pollution case (Business Day)
13 June 2012
(News)
Pretoria News: Squatters to live among rich
11 June 2012
(News)
SAHRC investigates abuse of immigrants
8 June 2012
(News)
LHR represents Corruption Watch and Social Justice Coalition in Mdluli matter
3 June 2012
(Press release)
LHR Press Release: Eastern Cape High Court refuses Home Affairs leave to appeal closure of PE Refugee Reception Office
18 May 2012
(Press release)
South African government takes concrete step against illegal Israeli settlement products
18 May 2012
(Press release)
Zim torture ruling hailed as landmark (Pretoria News)
9 May 2012
(News)
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH with metro police brutality on informal traders (ESSET statement)
4 May 2012
(News)
Schubart Park hopes for a lifeline
3 May 2012
(News)
Predator police in reign of terror (Sunday Times)
1 May 2012
(News)
Home Affairs to improve services at RRO's- Media statement by DG
13 April 2012
(Press release)
New rules for judicial review declared unconstitutional by North Gauteng high Court
11 April 2012
(Press release)
Social Relief is made available for vulnerable refugees
5 April 2012
(Press release)
‘Show us cash before we help you’
4 April 2012
(News)
Campaign to end detention of minors
29 March 2012
(News)
State silent as riot, illegal detention claims rock Lindela
28 March 2012
(News)
Inmates riot at Lindela Repatriation Centre
27 March 2012
(News)
Zimbabwe: Damning Testimony in Torture Case (allAfrica)
26 March 2012
(News)
Is Africa Homophobic?
26 March 2012
(Press release)
Of pain, suffering and horror (IOL)
23 March 2012
(News)
Schubart tenants sue for R31m (IOL)
22 March 2012
(News)
The face of an invisible man (Pretoria News)
22 March 2012
(News)
A woman stripped of her birthright
22 March 2012
(News)
No Country, no ID, no work, no rights
22 March 2012
(News)
The face of an invisible man
22 March 2012
(News)
Global report and campaign to end immigration detention of children to be launched at UN Human Rights Council
20 March 2012
(Press release)
Carolina’s polluted water highlights growing problem in SA (Business Day)
13 March 2012
(News)
Stricter laws mooted for foreigner owned spaza shops
12 March 2012
(News)
‘Xenophobic’ measures for migrants slammed
12 March 2012
(News)
Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders has 5 outstanding requests for official visits pending for Zimbabwe
12 March 2012
(News)
South Africa leads United Nations on gay rights
9 March 2012
(News)
The Protection of State Information Bill: Is the ‘liberator’ crossing the floor? (De Rebus)
8 March 2012
(News)
South Africa to co-sponsor first-ever inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people at UN Human Rights Council
6 March 2012
(News)
Business day OPINION: SA willing to sell out its founding values
23 February 2012
(News)
Death Penalty back in the spotlight of the Constitutional Court
22 February 2012
(Press release)
Refugees excused from legal fees security
21 February 2012
(News)
Court orders re-opening of PE Refugee Reception Office
16 February 2012
(Press release)
Mines Operating Without Requisite Water Use Licences: Acting with Impunity Exacerbating Environmental Degradation
16 February 2012
(Press release)
Committee on Enforced Disappearances: Inaugural session attracts significant NGO interest
15 February 2012
(News)
Landmark case over SA obligations on crimes against humanity
15 February 2012
(News)
Migrants face unlawful arrests and hasty deportations
14 February 2012
(News)
PE High Court hears challenge on closure of Port Elizabeth refugee reception office
9 February 2012
(Press release)
Constitutional Court dismisses Home Affairs’ application for leave to appeal
9 February 2012
(Press release)
Media Release - Mining-Environment-Communities Alliance: Statement for the Mining Indaba
7 February 2012
(Press release)
LHR takes on new judicial review rules
6 February 2012
(News)
LHR challenge to rules of judicial review in court
3 February 2012
(Press release)
New twist in MalaMala land claim (City Press)
30 January 2012
(News)
Red tape ensnares asylum-seekers in South Africa
23 January 2012
(News)
HOME AFFAIRS PREVENTS REFUGEES FROM APPLYING FOR ASYLUM
20 January 2012
(Press release)
ConCourt deems parts of Children's Act invalid
12 January 2012
(News)
Concourt to rule on the noose
22 December 2011
(News)
Amnesty International's call on SA to fulfill its obligations in protecting refugees
22 December 2011
(News)
In defense of the Concourt
15 December 2011
(News)
Victory for refugees in Johannesburg
14 December 2011
(Press release)
PE court orders refugee office to remain open in Port Elizabeth
13 December 2011
(Press release)
Court mulls refugees’ challenge to department
10 December 2011
(News)
Constitutional Court in Bapsfontein shuffle (Constitutionally Speaking)
9 December 2011
(News)
City’s duty to house squatters reaffirmed
9 December 2011
(News)
Itireleng evictions unanimously overturned by Constitutional Court – confirms municipalities’ obligation to prevent homelessness
7 December 2011
(Press release)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES FORCED REMOVAL OF BABPSFONTEIN RESIDENTS UNLAWFUL
6 December 2011
(Press release)
Judge taken to task over asylum seekers
1 December 2011
(News)
Vacancy: Attorney and Programme Manager (Stellenbosch)
15 November 2011
(Press release)
Deportation of Zimbabweans tearing families apart
2 November 2011
(News)
Asylum seekers face detention
1 November 2011
(News)
IOM deplores treatment of refugees
1 November 2011
(News)
IFRC calls on SADC for policies to recognize rights of migrants
1 November 2011
(News)
Farmers to be probed for labour cheating
1 November 2011
(News)
261 Zimbabweans deported from SA
13 October 2011
(News)
Statelessness: Living the South African dream on borrowed time
10 October 2011
(News)
Home affairs resumes Zim deportations
7 October 2011
(News)
Statelessness: Falling through the cracks in southern Africa
6 October 2011
(News)
Constitutional Court Dismisses Leave to Appeal for Schubart Park Crisis
5 October 2011
(Press release)
BLOG: Stateless in Zimbabwe, the Only Country They’ve Ever Called Home
27 September 2011
(News)
Schubart Park Residents Spend Weekend on Streets Despite City’s Promises
25 September 2011
(Press release)
Schubart Park residents left in the cold, again
23 September 2011
(Press release)
No extradition’ if no death penalty pledge
23 September 2011
(News)
Migration: SA should take US lead and fight crime, not chase illegals
21 September 2011
(News)
Bapsfontein residents to fight forced removal in Constitutional Court
14 September 2011
(Press release)
Itireleng evictions challenged in Constitutional Court
12 September 2011
(Press release)
Blikkiesdorp is a 'concentration camp', say Tafelsig squaters (WestCape News)
8 September 2011
(News)
Evicted Somali traders cry foul
2 September 2011
(News)
Prove your citizenship
31 August 2011
(News)
South African Government gets lowest rating on xenophobia by APRM
31 August 2011
(News)
UNHCR launches global campaign for the stateless millions
31 August 2011
(News)
SA denies agreement preventing refugees from seeking asylum
30 August 2011
(News)
Bapsfontein residents to fight removal in Constitutional Court (Business Day)
30 August 2011
(News)
International Day of the Disappeared 2011
29 August 2011
(News)
Constitutional Court dismisses Moutse demarcation challenge
23 August 2011
(Press release)
Constitutional Court to give judgment in the Moutse border demarcation matter
23 August 2011
(Press release)
Refugees in SA fight for better conditions
22 August 2011
(News)
Immigration: US to review 300 000 deportation cases
22 August 2011
(News)
US moves Toward Immigration Sanity
22 August 2011
(News)
LHR and Centre for Child Law challenge the random removal of children from informal traders and beggars
18 August 2011
(News)
South Africa seizes children of Zimbabwe beggars
18 August 2011
(News)
New law to give parents a voice
17 August 2011
(News)
Harassed hawkers 1, municipality 0
15 August 2011
(News)
Home affairs shrugs off 'fatal' stampede
10 August 2011
(News)
Asylum-seekers still look for refuge in SA
10 August 2011
(News)
Horn migrants heading south "pushed backwards"
10 August 2011
(News)
Australian court stops deportation of asylum seekers
10 August 2011
(News)
Court orders hospital to treat Zim child (Citizen)
10 August 2011
(News)
Refugees sue Home Affairs
10 August 2011
(News)
Citizens of nowhere trapped in legal limbo
4 August 2011
(News)
Citizens of nowhere trapped in legal limbo
3 August 2011
(News)
Home Affairs concludes adjudication of applications from Zimbabwean nationals
2 August 2011
(News)
Press Release: Lawyers for Human Rights raises concerns about respect for human rights during the deportations to Zimbabwe, due to resume 1 August
29 July 2011
(Press release)
Update on the ZDP application process
27 July 2011
(Press release)
Deportation has no colour - Home Affairs
26 July 2011
(News)
Detention and deportation of Zimbabweans costly and does not deter - New handbook on alternatives to detention
15 July 2011
(Press release)
Vacancies: Attorney (Pretoria) and Candidate Attorney Programme
9 July 2011
(Press release)
Chair of Home Affairs Portfolio Committee apologises for xenophobic comments
4 July 2011
(News)
Deportation for Illegal Zimbabweans
4 July 2011
(News)
LHR calls for chair of the Home Affairs Portfolio Committee to retract xenophobic statements
1 July 2011
(Press release)
Children who cross borders (Pretoria News)
22 June 2011
(News)
Observations and Recommendations on the International Criminal Court and the African Union in advance of the 17th African Union Summit (30 June-1 July)
21 June 2011
(Press release)
From integration to containment – worrying trends for refugees in SA (Pretoria News)
20 June 2011
(News)
Legal Battle begins to strip Rwandan General and Suspected War Criminal of refugee status
15 June 2011
(Press release)
South Africa: Open New Johannesburg Refugee Center
3 June 2011
(Press release)
Xenophobia meets its match
2 June 2011
(News)
LHR dismayed at closure of refugee reception office in Johannesburg
1 June 2011
(Press release)
Home Affairs plans to build refugee centres along borders
30 May 2011
(News)
Batswana pair back in court (The Star)
25 May 2011
(News)
Cape Town anti-land invasion unit acting illegally, say rights lawyers (West Cape News)
24 May 2011
(News)
LHR to seek order declaring extradition to Botswana unlawful
22 May 2011
(Press release)
LHR calls on the police to protect foreign nationals and foreign owned businesses in the pre-elections intimidation and attacks in Gauteng Province
13 May 2011
(Press release)
Home Affairs refuses admission to Somali asylum seekers
12 May 2011
(News)
LHR condemns political violence in Swaziland
12 April 2011
(Press release)
Crown Mines Refugee Reception Centre in Johannesburg set to close
8 April 2011
(News)
NGOs call for fairer mine law overhaul (Business Report)
7 April 2011
(News)
COURT ORDERS RETURN OF CHILDREN TO FATHER
30 March 2011
(Press release)
Dad loses kids over lobola debt
29 March 2011
(News)
Press release: LHR criticizes DHA's use of unlawful measures to exclude refugees from SA
24 March 2011
(Press release)
SA one step closer to legalising prostitution
18 March 2011
(News)
South Africa commits to engaging Africa on violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people
17 March 2011
(Press release)
LHR joins African NGOs in calling for South Africa to endorse the "Joint Statement on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" at the UN Human Rights Council
17 March 2011
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights to fight Schubart Park evictions (EWN)
16 March 2011
(News)
LHR endorses call to the Minister of Justice for Hate Crimes Legislation
15 March 2011
(News)
LHR calls for laws targeting hate speech and discrimination: Laws criminalizing homosexuality are incompatible with international human rights standards and fuel homophobia
14 March 2011
(Press release)
Moutse Demarcation Forum case to be heard in the Constitutional Court, 10 March 2011
9 March 2011
(Press release)
LHR calls on the President to protect the Public Protector
3 March 2011
(Press release)
State strung out case — Moutse residents
2 March 2011
(News)
Tanya Pampalone I Mail and Guardian: Making a run for the border
1 March 2011
(News)
Court criticizes Home Affairs unlawful detention practices
11 February 2011
(Press release)
LHR comments on Immigration Amendment Bill, 2011
28 January 2011
(Press release)
Submission on The Limpopo Prevention And Control Of Informal Settlements Bill, 2011
28 January 2011
(Press release)
TRANSCRIPT COPY: INTERACTION WITH MEDIA BY HOME AFFAIRS DIRECTOR-GENERAL MKUSELI APLENI REGARDING DOCUMENTATION OF ZIMBABWEANS
20 January 2011
(Press release)
Zimbabwean and SA authorities meet over passport confusion
19 January 2011
(News)
Cops can't arrest illegal Zims: LHR
18 January 2011
(News)
Rights body concerned over harassment of Zimbabweans, Business Day
18 January 2011
(News)
South Africa extends moratorium on deportation to Zimbabwe to 1 August
13 January 2011
(Press release)
South Africa May Deport 1.2 Million Zimbabweans (Bloomberg News)
10 January 2011
(News)
South Africa: Interaction With Media by Home Affairs Director-Genreral Mkuseli Apleni Regarding Documentation of Zimbabweans (AllAfrica.com)
8 January 2011
(News)
ZIMBABWE DOCUMENTATION PROCESS: HOME AFFAIRS REMAINS RESOLUTE ON REFUSAL TO EXTEND DEADLINE
29 December 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs responds to LHR's complaint to the Public Protector
15 December 2010
(Press release)
Complaint to the Public Protector regarding Home Affairs’ refusal to extend Zimbabwe documentation deadline
9 December 2010
(Press release)
Vacancies: Attorneys (Johannesburg, Durban and Musina)
6 December 2010
(Press release)
Countdown to deportation
3 December 2010
(News)
Minister of Human Settlements misunderstands the Constitution and social justice struggles
3 December 2010
(Press release)
SA will not extend permit deadline
1 December 2010
(News)
Where did all the foreigners go? (Mail & Guardian)
30 November 2010
(News)
The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons From Enforced Disappearances Enters Into Force on 23 December 2010
26 November 2010
(Press release)
TRANSCRIPT : INTERACTION WITH MEDIA BY MINISTER DLAMINI ZUMA ON CONCLUSION OF DISCUSSIONS WITH ZIMBABWEAN STAKEHOLDER FORUM, 23 November 2010
25 November 2010
(News)
Supreme Court of Appeal orders immediate release of Somali refugees from OR Tambo Airport
24 November 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs Press Statement confirms asylum seekers and refugees access to bank accounts
22 November 2010
(News)
Refugees and asylum seekers again able to access bank accounts
9 November 2010
(Press release)
Fury as police round up foreigners
8 November 2010
(News)
Changes to Refugee Act may increase backlogs - Lawyers for Human Rights (EWN)
27 October 2010
(News)
Official slated for sneering at judge (Sunday Times)
17 October 2010
(News)
Red Ants raid homeless people’s land (Pretoria News)
15 October 2010
(News)
Home Affairs: What are the costs of defending a dysfunctional department?
13 October 2010
(Press release)
NGO Statement on International Protection made at the 61st Executive Committee Meeting of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
11 October 2010
(News)
Zimbabweans Have Long Wait to Get Legal (Business Day)
6 October 2010
(News)
Zimbabweans Have Long Wait to Get Legal (Business Day)
6 October 2010
(News)
Gigaba visits home affairs
30 September 2010
(News)
Home Affairs chaos
30 September 2010
(News)
Zimbabweans told to 'regularise' stay in SA
20 September 2010
(News)
City to regulate migrant shelters (News 24)
15 September 2010
(News)
Home Affairs faces challenge to refugee fines policy (West Cape News)
14 September 2010
(News)
Zimonline I Tobias Manyuchi I SA to issue permits to Zim immigrants
13 September 2010
(News)
Zimbabwe Government in Permit Scramble
10 September 2010
(News)
Court halts deportation of Somali refugees minutes before their departure
9 September 2010
(Press release)
Civil Society responds to Home Affairs “Zimbabwe Documentation Project” and end of Special Dispensation for Zimbabweans
7 September 2010
(Press release)
Minister Dlamini Zuma responds to criticism on end of Special Dispensation for Zimbabweans
7 September 2010
(Press release)
Afghan man stuck in transit at OR Tambo Airport
6 September 2010
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights concerned about mass deportations following government’s lifting of ‘special dispensation’ that never took effect
3 September 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs and ACSA deny detained Afghan national legal representation at OR Tambo International Airport
3 September 2010
(Press release)
Kimberly High Court orders municipality to reconstruct unlawfully demolished shacks in Upington
27 August 2010
(Press release)
Removal of children of beggars (Johannesburg Child Welfare)
25 August 2010
(Press release)
Attacks on foreigners scar South Africa (FT)
24 August 2010
(News)
Blinde mag kinders besoek (Rapport)
22 August 2010
(News)
Poverty is no reason to separate families - LHR and Child Law Centre
19 August 2010
(Press release)
It's hard living in tent city - Sowetan
12 August 2010
(News)
Squatters' woes far from over - Sowetan
12 August 2010
(News)
Don't move squatters, judge says (News24)
24 July 2010
(News)
LHR TO SEEK URGENT ORDER TO TEMPORARY SHELTER AFTER CRUEL AND UNLAWFUL EVICTION
22 July 2010
(Press release)
No time for denialism
22 July 2010
(News)
World Cup a triumph, now South Africa must keep its head
14 July 2010
(News)
Threat of xenophobia sinks in
12 July 2010
(News)
Rwandan General’s status as refugee called into question
2 July 2010
(News)
"War crimes suspect" has asylum in SA
2 July 2010
(News)
ICJ to observe the trial of Farai Maguwu in Zimbabwe
26 June 2010
(News)
HIGH COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF ZIMBABWEAN ACTIVIST DETAINED FOR HIS “STICKY OUT EARS”
28 May 2010
(Press release)
African civil society outraged by harsh sentence and call for release of Malawi couple and repeal of discriminatory laws
21 May 2010
(News)
'Above the law' Presidency claims exemption from Information Act - M&G
17 May 2010
(News)
ZLHR press release: Zimbabwe: Justice Prevails as Judge Bhunu Acquits Bennet
10 May 2010
(Press release)
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP BY-LAW CONCERNS
6 May 2010
(Press release)
Joint statement on Australian asylum processing suspension: violations of Australia’s international human rights obligations that undermine civil society efforts to strengthen refugee protections throughout the Asia Pacific region
4 May 2010
(Press release)
Home Affairs reforms should focus on immigration policy
15 April 2010
(Press release)
Court orders Home Affairs to release detained Afghan family who were fleeing from the Taliban
19 March 2010
(Press release)
High Court rules against Itireleng evictees
1 March 2010
(Press release)
Supreme Court of Appeal Slams Home Affairs for Illegal Detention
25 February 2010
(Press release)
'Council demolished shacks, so it must rebuild them' (Pretoria News)
15 February 2010
(News)
Cormsa calls for effective intervention to stop xenophobic violence in Siyathemba
9 February 2010
(Press release)
Balfour (Siyathemba): Grave concern at continuing violence against refugees
9 February 2010
(Press release)
Why weren't we told our school would be closing? (Pretoria News)
8 February 2010
(News)
Deprivation of liberty of an individual is inherently urgent- declares court in releasing asylum seeker
27 January 2010
(Press release)
Court bid to release Zim report (Pretoria News)
25 January 2010
(News)
39 foreigners arrested in Jhb (SAPA)
15 January 2010
(News)
Statement on the Forced Deportations of the Uighurs from Cambodia and the Lao Hmong from Thailand
14 January 2010
(Press release)
Curator to look into church refugees row (Sowetan)
7 January 2010
(News)
Statement by civil society organizations on the issue of acid mine drainage (AMD) in the Witwatersrand basin
14 December 2009
(Press release)
Statement from civil society organizations on resolving the refugee crisis at the Central Methodist Church, Johannesburg
8 December 2009
(Press release)
Court declares demolition of Mamelodi hostels unlawful
1 December 2009
(Press release)
LHR to seek contempt order against Tshwane for destruction of Mamelodi hostel
26 November 2009
(Press release)
Shoot to Kill: A Camouflaged Revival of the Death Penalty and Reversal of the Bill of Rights? - Sangonet
25 November 2009
(News)
Hostel residents left without roofs - Pretoria News
16 November 2009
(News)
Legal challenge to Johannesburg's "loitering" bylaws
4 November 2009
(Press release)
Response on Ministers visit to Lindela, November 2009
1 November 2009
(News)
DISAPPEARANCE NO, CONVENTION NOW
28 August 2009
(News)
South Africa considers 'shoot to kill' policing ahead of World Cup (The Guardian - UK)
16 August 2009
(News)
Xenophobia has yet to be addressed (Natal Mercury)
12 August 2009
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights response to human rights abuses by SAPS during Balfour service delivery protest
28 July 2009
(Press release)
COURT DECLARES HOME AFFAIRS ACTIONS IN DEPORTING ASYLUM SEEKER AS UNLAWFUL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL
16 July 2009
(Press release)
Refugees 'beaten, shocked' by metro cops (The Star)
13 July 2009
(News)
Ignoring ICC warrant is ‘unconstitutional’ (Sunday Times)
13 July 2009
(News)
Mamelodi Hostel residents march to keep their housing
10 July 2009
(Press release)
LHR has vacancy in the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme in Durban
9 July 2009
(News)
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS WELCOME RELEASE OF HOMELESS PEOPLE AND REFUGEES
6 July 2009
(Press release)
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF DESTITUTE PERSONS ARRESTED FOR SLEEPING OUTSIDE CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH
5 July 2009
(Press release)
SA slams arrest of homeless Zim (Sunday Independent)
5 July 2009
(News)
HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS CONDEMN THE UNLAWFUL ARREST OF DESTITUTE ZIMBABWEANS OUTSIDE CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH
4 July 2009
(News)
Special Permits for Zimbabweans on hold (IRIN)
24 June 2009
(News)
CoRMSA 2009 report on Protecting Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in South Africa
22 June 2009
(News)
LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALLS ON HOME AFFAIRS TO HALT THE DETENTION AND DEPORTATION OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS
19 June 2009
(Press release)
FMSP Report on Human Smuggling across the South Africa/Zimbabwe Border
15 June 2009
(News)
LHR ASKS COURT TO ORDER HOME AFFAIRS TO GO FETCH UNLAWFULLY DEPORTED ASYLUM SEEKER FROM DRC
11 June 2009
(Press release)
Eviction case may sow seeds of reform (Business Day)
11 June 2009
(News)
CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALLS FOR RELEASE OF SWAZI HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER
9 June 2009
(Press release)
LHR / CoRMSA submission to the African Commission Special Rapporteur on Refugees, Asylum Seekers, IDPs and Migrants
9 June 2009
(News)
Statement by African NGOs and legal profession on the implications of the African Union's recent decisions on universal jurisdiction and the work of the International Criminal Court in Africa
9 June 2009
(Press release)
‘Inhumane' mine under fire (The Times)
4 June 2009
(News)
Minister’s ‘land-grab cronyism’ (Business Day)
1 June 2009
(News)
'We will do what we can' (The Star)
27 May 2009
(News)
Court overturns minister's land grab (Business day)
27 May 2009
(News)
Court orders Land Affairs to return farm
26 May 2009
(Press release)
Opportunities for candidate attorneys in the Security of Farmworkers Programme
25 May 2009
(News)
North Gauteng High Court orders permanent closure of Musina detention facility
19 May 2009
(Press release)
Home Affairs flouts the law and deports asylum seeker
14 May 2009
(Press release)
Supreme Court of Appeal upholds Mkhondeni eviction appeal
13 May 2009
(Press release)
State 'failing to address xenophobia' (Cape Argus)
13 May 2009
(News)
Zimbabwean girls seek oportunity in South Africa (Chicago Defender)
13 May 2009
(News)
One year after xenophobic attacks - More action needed to prevent further violence (Cormsa)
9 May 2009
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes visa free entry for Zimbabweans
6 May 2009
(Press release)
High rise deaths case postponed (SAPA)
6 May 2009
(News)
Zim-immigrant-vrese ongegrond (Beeld)
6 May 2009
(News)
People trafficking surges at border (Sunday Independent)
4 May 2009
(News)
Zimbabweans still threatened with deportation - (M&G)
4 May 2009
(News)
More Zimbabwean Migrants expected in Musina (IRIN News)
3 May 2009
(News)
Free Zim migrants, court orders (Pretoria News)
29 April 2009
(News)
Woman can keep farm for now - court (IOL)
23 April 2009
(News)
PRESS RELEASE: COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF 450 ZIMBABWEANS UNLAWFULLY DETAINED IN MUSINA
21 April 2009
(Press release)
'Use it or lose it' policy abused by Land Affairs
15 April 2009
(Press release)
Net soos haar ma uit Distrik Ses... (Rapport)
12 April 2009
(News)
Back to Mpumalanga - victory for Moutse as ANC agrees (Sowetan)
7 April 2009
(News)
BBC: South Africa issues permits for Zimbabweans
3 April 2009
(News)
Supreme Court of Appeal rejects arbitrary detention of foreigners
31 March 2009
(Press release)
News 24: Rights group: Shut down centre
25 March 2009
(News)
LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ASKS COURT TO STOP ILLEGAL DETENTIONS AT ZIMBABWE BORDER
23 March 2009
(Press release)
Africa Institute says that SA is ‘compelled’ to support refugees
20 March 2009
(News)
iafrica.com: UNHCR created refugee crisis in Johannesburg
20 March 2009
(News)
STAKEHOLDERS CHART WAY FORWARD ON REFUGEE RECEPTION
18 March 2009
(Press release)
Judgment reserved in Concourt immigration case - SAPA
5 March 2009
(News)
Forced closure of "Refugee Reception Office" further endangers health of vulnerable Zimbabweans in South Africa - MSF
5 March 2009
(Press release)
SA shuts Zimbabwe refugees' camp (BBC)
5 March 2009
(News)
I face a real risk of persecution - Minister ordered to release asylum seeker - Pretoria News
26 February 2009
(News)
NPA responds on the state of prosecutions from the 2008 xenophobic attacks
23 February 2009
(News)
Release Roy Bennett and other political prisoners
18 February 2009
(Press release)
Lawyers fight to improve refugee facility - Pretoria News
10 February 2009
(News)
LHR CHALLENGES UNLAWFUL DETENTION IN MUSINA
9 February 2009
(Press release)
Statement on the Treatment of Rohingya and Bangladeshi 'Boat People' in Asia
6 February 2009
(Press release)
Desperate Children Flee Zimbabwe, for Lives Just as Desolate - New York Times
5 February 2009
(News)
LHR condemns Israeli human rights violations in Gaza
13 January 2009
(Press release)
Albert Park councillor locked up (The Mercury)
9 January 2009
(News)
Councillor implicated in attacks (Business Day)
8 January 2009
(News)
International Detention Coalition - A call to uphold the human rights of detainees
10 December 2008
(Press release)
LHR launches report on monitoring immigration detention in South Africa
10 December 2008
(Press release)
International detention coalition media release
20 November 2008
(Press release)
ConCourt postpones Moutse case - The Citizen
18 November 2008
(News)
Constitutional challenge to Moutse demarcation process postponed
18 November 2008
(Press release)
Police officers torture and assault detainees in Musina with impunity
29 October 2008
(Press release)
Sick and dying inmates exposed at Modderbee prison (SABC)
22 October 2008
(News)
LHR secures the release of 37 refugees and asylum-seekers
22 October 2008
(Press release)
LHR urgent application challenging unlawful detention and deportation of refugees
14 October 2008
(Press release)
State to review decisions on cross-border municipalities (Business Day)
14 October 2008
(News)
LHR condemns government's intimidation tactics against xenophobia camp residents
23 September 2008
(Press release)
We can do anything, says cop (Natal Witness)
13 August 2008
(News)
Refugees make mistake of knowing their rights (Business Day)
11 August 2008
(News)
Deportation and prosecution of refugees in conflict with SA's legal obligations
31 July 2008
(Press release)
Families out in the cold after farm eviction (IOL)
29 July 2008
(News)
Out in the cold (once again) - Mail and Guardian
28 July 2008
(News)
AI: Displaced people should not be forcibly removed from temporary camps
24 July 2008
(Press release)
Release Glenanda Asylum seekers - lawyers (Pretoria News)
23 July 2008
(News)
LHR concerned about threats to deport refugees who failed to register at Glenanda camp
23 July 2008
(Press release)
Fight to save foreigner camps (Citizen)
23 July 2008
(News)
Pta flat dwellers get interdict (Pretoria News)
22 July 2008
(News)
UNHCR Press release - changing pattern of displacement from Zimbabwe
11 July 2008
(Press release)
Vacancy for attorney in the Refugee and Migrants Rights Programme
1 July 2008
(News)
Pretoria High Court orders the release of Zimbabwean asylum seekers
27 June 2008
(Press release)
Lawyers for human rights press statement on world refugee day
20 June 2008
(Press release)
Lawyers for human rights applies for an interdict to prevent the movement of displaced foreigners to unsuitable site
2 June 2008
(Press release)
Urgent need to protect victims of xenophobic attacks
16 May 2008
(Press release)
Treatment of Zimbabweans in SA is also a crisis (Business Day)
23 April 2008
(News)
Blind dad reunited with baby (Pretoria News)
3 March 2008
(News)
Government urged to think again on immigration policy (Business Day)
11 February 2008
(News)
Press release condemning the raid on the central methodist church in johannesburg
31 January 2008
(Press release)
Tears of joy as Richtersveld land claim is settled
19 October 2007
(News)
KZN Mec of Education v Pillay
7 October 2007
(Press release)
Protecting Minors from harmful content via mobile phones
1 October 2007
(Press release)
New challenge may sour Richtersveld deal (Mail and Guardian)
20 September 2007
(News)
Have "Virtually no people from Zimbabwe have applied for asylum"?
2 August 2007
(Press release)
Arbitrary arrests of foreign migrants by SAPS officials condemned
5 July 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights supports a statement issued by Amnesty International and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
29 June 2007
(Press release)
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants' Annual Report
20 June 2007
(Press release)
Supreme Court of Appeal declaresTswelopele eviction unlawful
30 May 2007
(Press release)
Bennett wins asylum appeal (AFP)
14 May 2007
(News)
No identity document required in order to access Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART)
26 February 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights condemns unlawful police action towards foreign nationals
30 January 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights Condemns Unlawful Police Action towards Foreign Nationals
28 January 2007
(Press release)
Illegal immigrants fume at their treatment in Lindela (Sunday Independent)
3 September 2006
(News)
Refugees fight discrimination (Pretoria News)
1 August 2006
(News)
Protection Denied: Asylum in the New South Africa
31 May 2006
(News)
Ja vir Bennett kan baie van Zim na SA bring (Beeld)
30 May 2006
(News)
SA denies asylum for Roy Bennett (Mail and Guardian)
26 May 2006
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights project coordinator elected to the Executive committee of KPACC
24 May 2006
(News)
Disabled refugees challenge unfair exclusion from social assistance
19 August 2005
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights demands release of detained asylum seekers and refugees
4 April 2005
(Press release)
Refugee horror exposed (The Star)
3 November 2004
(News)
Unlawful detention of foreign children
8 September 2004
(Press release)
Judgment urgent application unaccompanied foreign children
13 August 2004
(Press release)
High Court declares parts of the new Immigration Act unconstitutional
22 April 2003
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights wins landmark decision against Department of Home Affairs and ACSA
25 March 2002
(Press release)
Refugee rights dropped from world racism conference
10 August 2001
(Press release)
Human rights group plan court action over the treatment of refugees (Business day)
23 April 2001
(News)
Die Okkupeerder: a Resource Manual for Eviction Cases
18 May 1999
(News)