Programme News

2 June 2008
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), in collaboration with the Johannesburg Central Methodist Church and Medecins Sans Frontieres (‘MSF'), will launch an urgent application for an interim interdict to prevent the transfer of displaced foreigners from the Jeppestown and Cleveland police stations to a temporary shelter in Vickers Road pending an order that will ensure the safety of the displaced...
3 March 2008
(News)
A blind father has finally been reunited with his nine-month-old daughter after a bitter legal battle. And now lawyers want the courts to prevent social workers from taking children away from their biological parents on flimsy grounds. The girl was taken away from her father in November last year, shortly after her mother's funeral. The father, who can't be named to protect the child, looked...
19 October 2007
(News)
Tears of joy flowed on Tuesday when the Richtersveld community finally won back the diamond-rich land taken from them almost a century ago.The restoration of the land was part of a settlement agreement confirmed by Land Claims Court Judge Antonie Gildenhuys, sitting in Cape Town.His order, handed down just after 4pm, ended a decade-long legal battle that went all the way to the Constitutional...
7 October 2007
(Press release)
Constitutional Court confirms Equality Court decision on the right of a learner to wear a nosestud in recognition of the right to religious and cultural freedom.
1 October 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights releases report on" Protecting Minors from harmful content via mobile phones".
20 September 2007
(News)
BEN MACLENNAN | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Sep 20 2007 14:27A group ofRichtersveld residents is to challenge a settlement agreement with thegovernment when the document goes before the Land Claims Court in Cape Townnext week for ratification.

Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin andrepresentatives of the Richtersveld Sida !hub Communal Property Association(CPA) signed the agreement in April...
29 June 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights supports a statement issued by Amnesty International and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights stating that human rights issues must be at the centre of any dialogue between the Government of Zimbabwe and the MDC.
20 June 2007
(Press release)
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants publishes its annual report entitled " Protecting Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa".
14 May 2007
(News)
JOHANNESBURG - Former Zimbabwe oppositionlawmaker Roy Bennett said yesterday he had finally won asylum in South Africa -the first senior Zimbabwe political figure to succeed.The "happy" Bennett, who has been in the countryfor more than a year now, said Home Affairs gave him the asylum papers onFriday after the Refugees Appeal Board overruled a decision by the governmentto deny him...
1 August 2006
(News)
  In the first case of its kind in the world, refugees from across Africa have approached the Constitutional Court to help them gain access to the private security industry. But the matter before the court is about more than just refugees who want to be security guards. "To my knowledge, before the court was approached, no other court, either in South Africa or any other jurisdiction in the...