Detention Monitoring Publications
The 2013 annual report highlights some of LHR's most noteworthy cases and interventions.
The South African Human Rights Commission's investigative report into conditions of detention at Lindela Repatriation Centre.
Lawyers for Human Rights have done extensive work in its various programmes during 2012, including the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme, Strategic Litigation Unit, Land and Housing Programme and Environmental Rights Programme.
Looking back at human rights developments in 2013, several themes stand out. The unchecked slaughter of civilians in Syria elicited global horror and outrage, but not enough to convince world leaders to exert the pressure needed to stop it. That has led some to lament the demise of the much-vaunted “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine, which world governments adopted less than a decade ago to protect people facing mass atrocities. Yet it turned out to be too soon to draft the epitaph for R2P, as it is known, because toward the end of the year it showed renewed vitality in several African countries facing the threat of large-scale atrocities: the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
LHR, in partnership with ACMS, details the latest trends on policy shifts and detention in South Africa. These recent changes amount to a significant reduction of asylum-seeker and refugee protection, culminating in increased danger of re-arrest, in contravention of domestic and international law.