All Press Releases
20 June 2007
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants publishes its annual report entitled " Protecting Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa".
30 May 2007
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal this morning in the case of Tswelopele v City of Tshwane and the Minister of Safety and Security (case 303/06). In March 2006, officials of the Tshwane Metro and the SAPS were involved in an illegal eviction of squatters in the Moreletta Park area. Not only did they evict the informal dwellers without any court order,...
26 February 2007
The Dept of Health confirms that persons do not require an identity document in order to access Anti Retroviral Treatment (ART).
30 January 2007
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) strongly condemns the heavy-handed and unlawful actions of members of the South African Police Service against foreign nationals in South Africa.
A recent example that was brought to our attention was the arrest of a prominent member of civil society in South Africa. On Friday, 26 January 2007 Emmanuel Hlabangani, a senior consultant with Crisis in Zimbabwe...
28 January 2007
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) strongly condemns the heavy-handed and unlawful actions of members of the South African Police Service against foreign nationals in South Africa. A recent example that was brought to our attention was the arrest of a prominent member of civil society in South Africa. On Friday, 26 January 2007 Emmanuel Hlabangani, a senior consultant with Crisis in Zimbabwe...
19 August 2005
The Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, the Coordinating Body for Refugee Communities and four disabled refugees, represented by Lawyers for Human Rights, instituted legal proceedings challenging the constitutionality of legislation which exclude disabled refugees from receiving disability grants.
In the application, which was instituted in the Pretoria High Court today, the applicants...
4 April 2005
In a letter to the Minister of Home Affairs yesterday Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) demanded the release by 16:00h today of some 20 asylum seekers and refugees who are being detained at the Lindela Repatriation Centre.
Lawyers for Human Rights has successfully secured the release of some 20 asylum seekers and refugees who were in detention at the Lindela Repatriation Centre.
In a letter to...
8 September 2004
An urgent application will be brought before the Pretoria High Court today by the Centre for Child Law and the court-appointed curator ad litem for 13 unaccompanied foreign children. The main purpose of the application is get a court order to force the Department of Social Development’s bring the children, presently detained in Dyambo Youth Centre, before the Krugersdorp Children’s Court in order...
13 August 2004
The protection and care of unaccompanied foreign children came under the spotlight today in the Pretoria High Court. In a precedent-setting judgment, Judge Annemarie de Vos castigated the “apathy” of government officials who had failed to act in accordance with South Africa’s Constitution, statutory law and their own stated policy and were also in breach of international law.
The judgment...
22 April 2003
In the matter of Lawyers for Human Rights and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and others, LHR acting in the public interest, won an important legal victory today in the Pretoria High Court in which Judge Ben du Plessis declared core aspects of the new Immigration Act concerning the arrest and detention of foreigners unconstitutional. The judgment is a milestone in that it confirms and protects...