Lawyers for Human Rights
Lawyers for Human Rights is an independent human rights organisation with a 39-year track record of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa. LHR uses the law as a positive instrument for change and to deepen the democratisation of South African society. To this end, it provides free legal services to vulnerable, marginalised and indigent individuals and communities, both non-national and South African, who are victims of unlawful infringements of their constitutional rights.
News
10 February 2020
Lawyers for Human Rights is inviting applications from law students with an interest in human rights law and public interest litigation to apply for...
15 January 2020
Lawyers for Human Rights is inviting applications from law students with an interest in human rights law and public interest litigation to apply for...
6 January 2020
Lawyers for Human Rights is inviting applications from law students and graduates with an interest in human rights law and public interest litigation...
7 October 2019
As members of the global community of civil society actors engaged daily in action to protect everyone’s right to a nationality, we applaud...
4 October 2019
LHR is an independent human rights organisation with a four-decade track record in human rights activism and public interest litigation in South...
Press Releases
[PRESS RELEASE] LHR Seeks to Challenge Discriminatory Policing in "Residents of Industry House" Case
13 March 2020
On 13 March 2020, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) will appear before the Johannesburg High Court seeking to be admitted as a friend of the court in...
2 March 2020
On 3 March 2020, the confirmation proceedings in the case of Sonke Gender Justice v President and Others will be heard in the Constitutional Court....
16 January 2020
On 14 January 2020, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) represented dismissed workers of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in the Labour Court. The...
12 December 2019
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes the decision by the Makhanda High Court today confirming every child’s right to an education, regardless of...
3 December 2019
Lawyers for Human Rights is representing a group of about 200 informal reclaimers in an eviction application that has been set down for hearing in...
Videos
The spate of looting of foreign national's shops in Isipingo: Nomagugu Mlawe
The spate of looting of foreign national's shops in Isipingo south of Durban has again thrown...
LHR's Liesl Muller discusses statelessness on KykNet
Liesl Muller - head of LHR's Statelessness Project - discusses the issues around statelessness...
The role of migrants in township economy
Recent incidents of looting against 'foreign-owned' shops in Soweto, Kagiso and other...
Lootings in Soweto has thrown open the issue of xenophobia
The spate of looting of foreign nationals' shops in parts of Soweto has thrown open the issue...
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