📢Joint Press Statement | Standard Bank’s Green Claims Challenged in Formal Advertising Regulatory Board Complaint

📢 Press Statement: LHR Intervenes in Grandmother’s 10-Year Struggle to Secure the Title Deed to the House She Bought

📢The countdown is almost over! The Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG) 2026 takes place on 26 and 27 October at WitsUniversity bringing together Public interest and CSOs to engage on the challenges facing human rights and constitutional democracy in SA.

📢 NOTICE: MENTAL WELLNESS DAY Please note that LHR is observing Mental Wellness Day today to allow our team time to rest and recharge. We will resume normal operations on Mon, 26 Oct 2026 Thank you for your understanding. We look forward to reconnecting with you next week!

📢 STATELESSNESS MONTH OF ACTION | TAKING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST STATELESSNESS What does it take to turn the law into a tool for change when your nationality is denied, your citizenship is questioned, or your community is excluded?

📢 UN Binding Treaty Negotiations Update The @business-humanrights.org, in partnership with @lhr-sa.bsky.social, has published its Day 1 Daily Update from the 12th session of the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group negotiating a proposed legally binding instrument on biz and human rights.

From New York to Johannesburg—Where Justice Lives is coming to Nelson Mandela Foundation The exhibition bears witness to the lives of women and girls under the Taliban’s regime of gender persecution and to the courage, resilience, and resistance of those fighting back.

Clinics blockaded. Public "deadlines" to leave. Nearly 90,000 people repatriated. What does the African Charter mean for migrants in South Africa today, and how are the courts holding the line?

Two statements. Three months on. What comes next? In April and June 2026, the African Commission spoke out on the treatment of foreign nationals in South Africa and the enforcement of immigration status by private groups.

Press Statement: Lawyers for Human Rights proudly celebrates and congratulates our National Director, Nabeelah Mia, on being named among the Mail & Guardian Power of Women 2026 in the Civil Society category. ✨

🚨 Press Statement | Early Child Development Centers Fined for Operating Without Impossible to Obtain Permits Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is representing three ECD principals. The matter was postponed on 30 September 2026 to allow LHR to make written representations.

📢🌍 LHR at the 5th African Business & Human Rights Forum 2026 How do we advance the right to a healthy environment, health and education while strengthening accountability across Africa?

LHR Makes Submissions on the Draft General (Mining) Laws Amendment Bill Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) welcomes the opportunity to make submissions on the Draft General (Mining) Laws Amendment Bill, published by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on 7 August 2026.

📢 Final Call: PILG 2026 proposals close today📢 The deadline to submit proposals for the Public Interest Law Gathering (PILG) 2026 is today, 28 September. This year’s theme is: “Defending the Promise of the Constitution”

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights mark 15 years. As discussions on stronger corporate accountability continue, what role could a binding treaty play? Join the Business and Human Rights Centre and Perú Equidad on 29 September for the conversation us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📢🇿🇦🪘Today, we commemorate Heritage Day by recognising the many cultures, languages, histories, traditions and lived experiences that make up South Africa.

📢 When Harm Goes Viral: Governing Online Harm and Platform Power in South Africa On 17 September, Lawyers for Human Rights joined a panel discussion alongside the South African Human Rights Commission, Film and Publication Board,

📢 Youth Against Hunger Indaba | 4 September 2026 Lawyers for Human Rights joined the Union Against Hunger and young people from across communities and organisations at the Youth Against Hunger Indaba, creating space for young people to speak about the realities of hunger,

📢 Office Closure Notice Please note that our offices will be closed on Thursday, 24 September 2026, in commemoration of Heritage Day (Public holiday) . We will also be closed on Friday, 25 September 2026, as we observe our Mental Health & Wellness Day

📢 📚BOOK LAUNCH | South Africa’s Constitution and the Law of the Township: Looting from Below LHR is pleased to celebrate the launch of a new book by our very own David Dickinson, published by Wits University Press.

📢 Activist Symposium 2026 | Solidarity across borders LHR joined human rights defenders, activists and partners in Maputo for this year’s Activist Symposium, centred on a critical question: What does solidarity look like in a time of increasing repression and shrinking civic space?

📢 Civil Society Dialogue | Protecting Human Rights Defenders in Africa What should meaningful protection for human rights defenders look like across Africa?

📢 Submissions | Input to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders Lawyers for Human Rights has made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders ahead of the 64th session of the Human Rights Council.

📢 Press Statement: South Africa Does Not Need More Warnings. It Needs Action! The recent murders of women in Kempton Park are another devastating reminder that gender based violence and femicide remains one of South Africa’s most urgent human rights crises.

Paulina Mathinye was just 5 years old when her father left home to attend the gathering. He never returned. This powerful episode of The de brief network returns to Sharpeville and speaks to survivors and families who have carried the consequences of 21 March 1960 for generations.

📢LHR Wills’ Week📢 Planning for the future is one way of protecting the people and things that matter to you! As part of LHR’s Wills’ Week, our team will be providing free assistance and professional will drafting to the public.

What does solidarity mean in practice? How can we share struggles and strategies across borders? CALS, @lhr-sa.bsky.social, @right2protestafrka.bsky.social, CER and Amnesty are working to build networks across Africa and the Global South to strengthen activism

📢Today is United Nations Day for South South Cooperation. What does solidarity mean in practice? How can we share struggles, strategies and lessons across borders?

📢 THE VUSUBUNTU COALITION HAS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED 📢 On 26 June 2026, International Support. Don’t Punish Day, the VUSUBUNTU Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Drugs for Personal Use officially launched in Tshwane.

📢During Women’s Month of August, Amnesty International South Africa hosted a Human Rights Education Workshop on Press Freedom under the CREATE Project, alongside Lawyers for Human Rights and the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF).