Category Archives: Constitutional Court

The Road to Freedom – George Bizos

Freedom Month Lecture Series, University of the Witwatersrand Speech by: Advocate George Bizos SC (Counsel, Legal Resources Centre) assisted by Byron Jaffe, Monika Juengst-Miechzkowska and Avani Singh (Legal Resources Centre) presented at the University of the Witwaterstrand, hosted by the Department of Arts and Culture 21 April 2016 Introduction The progress towards democracy in South […]

16 Days: Stateless in South Africa

  During 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children, the Legal Resources Centre will be sharing the stories of survivors of gender based violence who fled their countries to seek asylum in South Africa. Many women, children and sexual and gender non-conforming persons endure horrific hardship, sexual persecution, assault, rape and […]

Ready to Learn?

Note: This post was first published on the Oxford Human Rights Hub. South Africa’s Legal Resources Centre (LRC) launched a new book – Ready to Learn? A Legal Resource for Realising the Right to Education – on 25 October at the Open Society Foundations in New York City (see press release here).  In this post, […]

Do we need to Criminalise HIV Transmission?

In what the Herald refers to a “precedent setting” matter, a Port Elizabeth man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly infecting his niece with HIV. The criminalisation of the transmission of HIV is an issue which has already been considered by the South African Law Commission. In 2001, the Commission developed a report […]