9 August 2024 President Joe Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden, Re: South African human rights non-governmental organizations call for U.S. human rights lawyer Steven Donziger to be pardoned We are a group of South African non-governmental organizations writing to you with a renewed sense of urgency […]
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South Africa: Military Courts should be allowed to operate independently and without influence from the executive The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), represented by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), has intervened as an amicus curiae (friend of the court) in the case Lieutenant Colonel K.B O’Brien v. the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (and […]
Building Bridges for Education: LRC Meets with New Minister to Address Urgent Schooling Challenges Earlier today, the Legal Resources Centre, represented by Cameron McConnachie, Shaatirah Baboo, and Kristen Abrahams, met with the newly appointed Minister of Basic Education, Ms. Siviwe Gwarube, as part of her “Listening and Learning Tour” of the education sector. The […]
The City of Cape Town and Others vs South African Human Rights Commission & Others The Legal Resources Centre on behalf of their clients, the South African Human Rights Commission, the Housing Assembly, and Mr Bulelani Qolani successfully defended an appeal brought by the City of Cape Town in the Supreme Court of Appeal. […]