All Press Releases
29 August 2018
29 August 2018
On 30 August 2018, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear at the Constitutional Court on behalf of Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) in the matter of Law Society of South Africa and others v The President of the Republic of South Africa and others, when it will hear arguments on the issue of the President’s participation in the suspension of the...
23 August 2018
23 August 2018
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
Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcome the public statement issued by the Deputy Minister of Police, Mr Bongani Mkongi on 21 August 2018. In what is unprecedented...
22 August 2018
22 August 2018
The Pretoria High Court made an order yesterday declaring a 12 year-old boy to be a South African citizen. The Department of Home Affairs had unlawfully refused to register Wandile’s* birth, despite his clear right to be recognised as a South African citizen. This refusal had left him effectively stateless. Two unknown children had been registered under his mother...
16 August 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
16 August 2018
PRESS STATEMENT
15 August 2018
CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION HOSTS INDABA ON PROPOSED UN BINDING TREATY
ActionAid South Africa (AASA), in cooperation with DIRCO and supported by Lawyers For Human Rights (LHR) and Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), prepare to host a discussion on the draft international binding treaty regulating...
8 August 2018
Women’s Month, August 2018
For release: Wednesday 8 August 2018
UNBOTHERED, UNRESPONSIVE: WHERE IS YOUR SEXUAL HARASSMENT POLICY?
The provincial legislatures oversee and make the law. But when it comes to sexual harassment they seem to think they do not need the law. The #NotOurLeaders campaign has written repeatedly to all nine provincial legislatures and our four largest...
31 July 2018
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) supports #TheTotalShutDown, the national intersectional womxn’s march against gender based violence. All LHR women and LGBTQ staff will stay away from work on the 1st of August 2018, and participate in marches in Tshwane, Johannesburg, Durban, Upington, and Cape Town.
In the course of its programmatic work, LHR encounters countless victims of gender-...
26 July 2018
Today, the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in the matter of Assign Services v NUMSA and Others, which concerns the correct interpretation of section 198A(3)(b) (the “deeming provision”) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1996 (LRA). Section 198A(3)(b) provides that an employee who earns less than the stipulated threshold and is contracted through a Temporary Employment...
25 July 2018
On Thursday 26 July 2018, the Constitutional Court will hand down judgment in the matter of Assign Services v NUMSA and Others, a matter dealing with the proper interpretation of section 198A(3)(b)(i) (the “deeming provision”) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1996 (LRA). Section 198A was one of several amendments made to the LRA in 2014, which aimed at providing protection to...
24 July 2018
24 July 2018
Yesterday the Department of Home Affairs finally registered an 18 month old baby under pressure of a Children’s Court order.
Baby Senelile* was found in a field in Pretoria soon after birth. There were no clues about who her parents were. Despite being a clearly abandoned and vulnerable foundling child, the Department of Home Affairs refused the social worker...