Date: 9 - 14 March  2015
Presented by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

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This course aims to achieve the following:

• Provide an overview and explore a critical understanding of international, regional and domestic law on disability rights relevant to Africa, and develop an understanding of the limits of the law;
• Promote awareness of disability as a human rights issue and as part of human diversity;
• Encourage critical responses to the existing law by developing alternative conceptions and theories, with reference to comparative legal norms and jurisprudence;
• Develop skills and competence to advocate for legal and policy change and improved implementation of disability rights; and
• Develop skills to undertake comparative research on disability rights in Africa.