The Legal Resources Cen­tre aspires towards a fully demo­c­ra­tic equal soci­ety. Its goals are to pro­mote jus­tice using the Con­sti­tu­tion, build respect for the rule of law, and con­tribute to socio-economic trans­for­ma­tion within South Africa and beyond.

The LRC is a human rights orga­ni­za­tion in South Africa. It uses the law as an instru­ment of jus­tice for the vul­ner­a­ble and mar­gin­alised, includ­ing poor, home­less, and land­less peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties who suf­fer dis­crim­i­na­tion by rea­son of race, class, gen­der, dis­abil­ity or by rea­son of social, eco­nomic, and his­tor­i­cal cir­cum­stances. The LRC started in Johan­nes­burg in 1979.