The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will host a one-week intensive short course on Disability Rights in an African context from 12 to 16 March 2018.

• Apply online for this course

Course date: 12 - 16 March 2018
Venue: Graduate Centre, University of Pretoria Main Campus

Brochure

• Download the Disability Rights in an African context brochure

About the course

This short course is part of a series of annual advanced human rights courses offered by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. The course which comes in the wake of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) (2006) is part of the Centre’s efforts in promoting awareness about disability rights in the African region.

Broadly stated, the aims and objectives of the intensive course are to provide learners with knowledge and techniques that enable them to:

• Understand development of disability as a global human rights issue
• Understand and apply provisions of the CRPD
• Apply the CRPD to selected areas
• Understand development of disability as a human rights issue as the African regional and sub-regional levels
• Understand and apply the intersection between the human rights and cultural aspects of disability in an African context
• Understand  and apply disability from a comparative human rights law perspective in other regions, including the European and Latin American regions
• Understand and apply the regulation of disability from a comparative law perspective in selected non-African countries
• Understand and apply theoretical approaches to equality and non-discrimination in a disability context.

The course is presented by lecturers who are drawn from a variety of countries and are experts in disability rights law.​

Applications

Applicants are required to apply online for this course.

Deadline for applications:

• Local Applicants: 10 March 2018
• International Applicants: 4 March 2018

Contact

For more information, please contact:

• Dennis Antwi
  Project Manager: Advanced Human Rights Courses (AHRC)
  Tel: +27 (0) 12 420 4197
  Email: [email protected]
   
• Ms Innocentia Mgijima-Konopi
  Project Manager: Disability Rights and Law Schools Programme
  Tel: +27 (0) 12 420 6398
  [email protected]