Council last week stormed a settlement opposite High Glen Shopping Centre near Budiriro in Harare and demolished more than 200 homes.
Officials said the structures were built on reserved government land.
The city council said warnings against building homes at the site had been ignored by the settlers.
The demolitions took place despite the absence of a court order which, lawyers argue, council should have sought before destroying the structures.
Dzimbabwe Chimbgwa, a senior official with the ZLHR, told delegates attending the World Human Rights Day commemorations in Harare last week, that going to the court to challenge the continued breach of the law was the only solution.
“If you remember we have done this before in Chitungwiza and Epworth where we managed to stop some of them (demolitions), we are suing some individual actors”, he said.
He added that they were confident that they would stop Harare city council from demolishing houses “once and for all”.
“We have had judgements on similar cases like in Chingwizi against individual police officers in their personal capacities because of their conduct which is inconsistent with the constitution of the country,” he said.
According to the constitution, local authorities should seek for permission from the courts when they want to evict or demolish people’s dwellings.
Councils are also required to provide security and compensation to the victims after finding them “an alternative and decent place” to relocate to.
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