All Press Releases
22 July 2012
On Tuesday, the North Gauteng High Court will hear arguments against the discriminatory targeting of foreign traders in Limpopo by police and the Department of Home Affairs.
In the case of Somali Association of South Africa and others v Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism and others, Lawyers for Human Rights is challenging the unlawful practice preventing...
20 July 2012
CORMSA PRESS RELEASE:The struggle to keep Refugee Reception Offices open continues across the country with another litigation effort on the closure of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office. The Department of Home Affairs has been implementing (an unofficial) policy which has seen the closure thus far of the Crowne Mines RRO (Johannesburg) in May 2011; the Port Elizabeth RRO in...
17 July 2012
Joint Media Statement on Situation in Carolina issued by LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE AND THE FEDERATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT MEDIA STATEMENT - 17th July 2012
The Federation for a Sustainable Development and the Silobela Concerned Community, represented by the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights respectively, yesterday opposed an...
10 July 2012
Media Statement by Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) have welcomed the North Gauteng High Court's order compelling the Gert Sibande Municipality in Mpumalanga to provide temporary potable water to the residents of Silobela, Caropark and Carolina, within 72 hours.
The Federation for...
19 June 2012
World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations to honour the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homes under threat of persecution, conflict and violence. On the eve of World Refugee Day in South Africa hundreds of refugees, asylum seekers, citizens and residents alike converged on the Marabastad refugee office to show their...
13 June 2012
Violent riots further affirm the need to protect the right to health at Lindela—yet Home Affairs idles. On 28 May 2012, a group of organisations wrote to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to request that it urgently investigate the state of health and health care service provision at Lindela Repatriation Centre (Lindela). Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF),...
13 June 2012
The South African Human Rights Commission has been receiving numerous complaints about the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in Gauteng. The Commission has been monitoring the situation closely. The Commission responded to the riot at the Lindela Repatriation centre on Monday by sending a monitoring team to visit the facility on Tuesday morning. The team engaged in discussions...
3 June 2012
Corruption Watch (CW) and the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) have filed a joint application for leave to intervene as co-applicants in Part B of the matter of Freedom Under Law v National Director of Public Proseuctions, case No. 26912/2012 brought in the North Gauteng High Court. In addition to the grounds of challenge raised in the principal application, the application brought by the SJC...
18 May 2012
The Eastern Cape High Court has refused to grant the Department of Home Affairs leave to appeal a decision which held that they may not close the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office. The High Court delivered its judgment on the 14th May. This was in response to an application by Home Affairs to appeal an order which directed them to re-open the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office. The...
18 May 2012
Significant victory for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid -Joint statement from South African, Palestinian and US organisations - Open Shuhada Street; Lawyers for Human Rights; Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (SA); Palestine Solidarity Forum (UCT); Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (Palestine) and Stolen Beauty Ahava Campaign...