Programme News
18 October 2018
(Press release)
16 October 2018
15 OCTOBER – GENEVA – ActionAid, together with African civil society organisations Democratic Governance and Human Rights Advocates (DEGHA), Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), as well as International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), will host a discussion at the Fourth...
16 October 2018
(Press release)
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
We, the undersigned academics and NGOs dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights, welcome the Zero Draft of a Legally Binding Instrument to regulate, in International...
14 September 2018
(Press release)
(PRESS RELEASE) -- Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes the Constitutional Court’s decision upholding the right of some 6,000 people of the Blyvooruitzicht Mining Village, a distressed mining community located west of Johannesburg, to continue receiving piped water.
The Constitutional Court dismissed an appeal, brought by Rand Water, against an order of the Pretoria High Court preventing...
16 August 2018
(Press release)
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...
4 June 2018
(News)
LHR hosted a workshop on mine closures, their impacts on affected communities, and strategies for community responses. The workshop is organised and will be facilitated by Lawyers for Human Rights (“LHR”) and the International Federation for Human Rights (“FIDH”) for communities affected by recent mine closures or likely to be so affected by the recent announcements of...
19 February 2018
(Press release)
Mining affected communities acknowledged as key stakeholders
19 February 2018 --- This morning, the Pretoria High Court postponed the judicial review of the Mining Charter published last year by Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane, in order for the President to initiate a new, inclusive consultation process that will underpin revisions to the Charter. In the same order, the...
19 February 2018
(Press release)
19 February 2018 — Lawyers for Human Rights notes the statements released by the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources regarding postponement of the 2017 Mining Charter case by agreement between those two parties. There are seven other applicants in the case, none of whom have been formally engaged by the respondent in this matter, the Department of Mineral...
14 November 2017
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights is delighted that the Pretoria High Court today ruled that four of its clients, the Bakgatla Ba Sefikile, Lesethleng, Babina Phuthi Ba Ga-Makola, and Kgatlu communities, will be allowed to intervene in the review of the 2017 Mining Charter brought by the Chamber of Mines against the Minister of Mineral Resources. The review hearing is scheduled for December.
The...
27 January 2017
(Press release)
FIDH and its member organisation in South Africa
Lawyers for human Rights (LHR)
REPORT
New report reveals devastating human toll of Blyvooruitzicht Mine liquidation
(Johannesburg, 27 January 2017) The human toll of the abrupt closure of the Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine in 2013 is devastating, according to a new FIDH and LHR report. The two human rights organisations...
21 January 2016
(Press release)
LHR is an independent human rights organisation with a thirty-seven year track record of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa. We offer human rights lawyers an exciting and challenging work environment covering a wide range of social justice issues.
LHR is inviting applications from law graduates with an interest in human rights law and public interest litigation...