SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA

SERI was established as a non-profit company in 2009. It is a South African human rights organisation which provides professional assistance to individuals, communities and social movements seeking to protect and advance their socio-economic rights. These are the rights to housing, water, fair labour practices, electricity, sanitation, a clean and healthy environment, education and various children's rights, which are grounded in South Africa's Constitution. SERI also seeks to protect the sites within which people campaign for the protection and advancement of these rights. We work to protect the political spaces in which socio-economic rights activists, social movements, community-based organisations, and trade unions are able to express themselves freely, assemble and protest without unjustified state interference, and be free from arbitrary arrest and detention... SERI is currently active in seven of South Africa's nine provinces, but has no particular geographical focus. Much of..

Also known as: SERI

Primary location: Johannesburg