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Assisting poor and marginalised groups to realise an adequate standard of living
Developing housing rights and basic services jurisprudence.
Ensuring pro-poor legal and policy frameworks and developing socio-economic rights jurisprudence
Ensuring pro-poor legal and policy frameworks and developing socio-economic rights jurisprudence

About Us

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) is a non-profit organisation providing professional and dedicated socio-economic rights assistance to individuals, communities and social movements in South Africa.

SERI conducts applied research, engages with government, advocates for policy and legal reform, facilitates civil society coordination and mobilisation, conducts popular education and training, and litigates in the public interest (the SERI Law Clinic is registered as a public interest law centre).

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See the About SERI page for more background on the organisation and sign up for SERI's mailing list here to receive our press releases, newsletters etc.

Read the latest SERI newsletter published in May 2014 here.

Contact Us

6th Floor Aspern House
54 De Korte Street
Braamfontein 2001
Johannesburg
South Africa

Reception: +27 11 356 5860
Fax: +27 11 339 5950
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Campaigns

 
SERI is a member of the Marikana Support Campaign and is representing AMCU, and 36 families of people who were killed by police in August 2012, before the Marikana Commission of Inquiry. Read more on SERI's involvement here.
 
SERI is a campaign driver of the ICESCR Ratification Campaign, is a member of ESCR-Net and the Good Governance Learning Network (GGLN), hosts the R2K Campaign Gauteng Working Group, and is a joint initiator of Making Local Government Work: An Activist's Guide.
 

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