To promote awareness, protection and enforcement of legal and human rights through the creation of a human rights culture.

Lawyers for Human Rights is an independent human rights organisation with a thirty-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 the 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.

Child Rights
Refugee & migrant rights
Strategic Litigation Unit
Security of Farm Workers
Land Reform and Housing
Environmental Rights