Human Rights
Lockdown has worsened pressure on foster care system, says Social Development
About 129,136 foster care orders will expire on 26 November 2020
By Liezl Human
News | 30 June 2020
Scores of maintenance payments backlogged during lockdown
“I have not received maintenance payments since February,” says Pietermaritzburg mother
News | 26 June 2020
Refugee Act amendments increase probability of unlawful detention, says report
Lawyers for Human Rights to host webinar on Friday
By Zoë Postman
News | 11 June 2020
City of Cape Town takes down tents erected by Observatory resident for homeless
The marquees were set up on City land without its permission
News | 10 June 2020
Judgment on Strandfontein camp case reserved
City of Cape Town and SAHRC dispute legal costs
By James Stent
Law | 10 June 2020
“We want to love the police, but they don’t want to love or respect us”
Picket held outside Parliament in solidarity with US protests against police brutality
News | 3 June 2020
Covid-19: Whatever unfolds in our prisons will affect all of us
The release of 19,000 low-risk inmates is a bold and necessary step to save lives
By Sasha Gear and Doreen Gaura
Opinion | 26 May 2020
Covid-19: Lockdown makes access to justice for prisoners even more difficult
Leeuwkop trial inmates “subjected daily to the control of the people they are suing for torture”
By Zoë Postman
News | 25 May 2020
Court victory for “invisible, undocumented children”
Fathers to be able to register the births of their children without the mother being present or giving consent
Law | 20 May 2020