• Contact: Mrs Nathaniah Jacobs
  • Address: Kutlwanong Democracy Centre, 357 Visagie Street, Pretoria 0002
  • Phone: (012) 320 2943
  • Email: jacobs@communitylaw.co.za
  • Web: www.lhr.org.za
  • Members:
    LHR

LHR

LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

2015

Member since

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure gender justice in relation to land, taking all necessary measures to pursue both de jure and de facto equality, enhancing the ability of women to defend their land rights and take equal part in decision-making, and ensuring that control over land and the benefits that are derived thereof are equal between women and men, including the right to inherit and bequeath tenure rights.
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Equal land rights for women

Ensure that processes of decision-making over land are inclusive, so that policies, laws, procedures and decisions concerning land adequately reflect the rights, needs and aspirations of individuals and communities who will be affected by them. This requires the empowerment of those who otherwise would face limitations in representing their interests, particularly through support to land users' and other civil society organizations that are best able to inform, mobilize and legitimately represent marginalized land users, and their participation in multi-stakeholder platforms for policy dialogue.
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Inclusive decision-making

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Mission

Lawyers for Human Rights is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation whose vision is to be a leading, effective human rights and constitutional watchdog and advocate, an international force in the development and delivery of human rights, with a primary focus in Africa, a primary contributor to clear strategic policy on the delivery of socio-economic rights for the disadvantaged.To this end, LHR strives to promote awareness, protection and enforcement of legal and human rights through the creation of a human rights culture.

Objectives

The objectives of Lawyers for Human Rights are focused on the achievement of such rights in all contexts and situations. The primary focus is in Africa, however projects and programmes extend worldwide. Priorities concern Refugees, Migrants, Legal and Security Issues, Litigation processes, Environmental, Housing and Land rights. Lawyers for Human Rights aim to achieve global respect for fundamental rights and raise the attention on certain delicate themes and situations. The organisation is articulated in different programmes, each concerning a major issue.

Constituencies


  • Contact: Mrs Nathaniah Jacobs
  • Address: Kutlwanong Democracy Centre, 357 Visagie Street, Pretoria 0002
  • Phone: (012) 320 2943
  • Email: jacobs@communitylaw.co.za
  • Web: www.lhr.org.za
  • Members:
    LHR