About Us
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) is a non-profit human rights organisation. We work with communities, social movements, individuals and other non-profit organisations in South Africa and beyond to develop and implement strategies to challenge inequality and realise socio-economic rights.
SERI’s conviction is that it is the people who are on the receiving end of poverty and inequality who are best placed to devise and implement strategies to challenge them. We provide legal advice and representation, research services and advocacy support to our clients and partners. We act to protect and expand the political spaces in which individuals and communities organise and press for social change.
Read the latest SERI newsletter published in December 2025 here.
Latest News
- [OPEN LETTER] to the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (13 July 2026).
- [OPEN LETTER] Those who break the fallow ground (26 June 2026).
- [JOB OPPORTUNITIES] SERI is looking for two candidate attorneys to join our team (12 June 2026).
- [OPEN LETTER] Nation building that is a loaded term (10 June 2026).
- [PRESS STATEMENT] SERI congratulates Adèle Kirsten for being awarded the Order Of Luthuli for her activism (20 May 2026).
- [ADVOCACY] SERI launches new research briefs on women’s access to rental and formal property (13 May 2026).
- [PUBLICATION] SERI launches new research briefs on women’s access to rental housing and property rights in inner-city Johannesburg (7 May 2026).
- [ADVOCACY] Over the month of April, SERI, the SPCDF and partners mark the tenth anniversary of the Melani High Court judgment (6 May 2026).
- [OP-ED] SERI's Lungelo Mncwabe writes about Slovo Park's use of food gardens to address food insecurity amid slow informal settlement upgrade (22 April 2026).
- [OP-ED] SERI's Thato Masiangoako reflects on the decade since the Melani judgment and Slovo Park's struggle for informal settlement upgrading (13 April 2026).