Posted on March 01, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that the University’s 2019 Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team has successfully defended their National Championship against the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg.
Posted on March 01, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Ms Melanie Murcott, a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law, has been selected to participate as a lecturer in the Mercer University Law School Virtual Environmental Law Guest Speaker Programme this semester.
Posted on February 28, 2019
On so many levels, the last week of February 2019 was a risky leap for the Queer Space Collective, comprising the Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for Sexualities AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria. It was the maiden edition of the Invitation: Pride and Letters - Queer Literary...
Posted on February 08, 2019
On 24 January 2019 the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria bid farewell to Professor Karin van Marle from its Department of Jurisprudence. Professor Van Marle joined the Department of Jurisprudence (then known as the Department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy) as a...
Posted on February 01, 2019
The Disability Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights seeks to appoint an appropriately qualified individual (student) for its internship programme, based in Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa
Posted on January 30, 2019
The Centre congratulates the government, parliament and people of Angola, for the brave steps taken, through its judicial reform programme, towards the decriminalisation of ‘habitual unnatural vices’, into which consensual adult same-sex sexual conduct was read.
Posted on January 16, 2019
The Centre is deeply concerned by the reported ongoing human rights violations in our immediate northern neighbour, taking the form of excessive use of force and restrictions on the free flow of information.
Posted on January 09, 2019
The Information Regulator and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria invite you to the 11th International conference of information commissioners (ICIC 2019).
Posted on December 17, 2018
On 11 December 2018, the Constitutional Court of South Africa in the matter between Law Society of South Africa and Others v. The President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, upheld the 1 March 2018 decision of the Northern Gauteng High Court that the President’s decision and...
Posted on December 11, 2018
Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights Graduation Ceremony on Friday. The event, at which degrees were awarded to students in human rights, commemorated 100 years since the birth of former...
Posted on December 10, 2018
On 10 and 11 December 2018, the Amsterdam Rainbow made its debut on the African continent in the Gauteng Province. The Amsterdam Rainbow dress is ‘ a work of art made from the flags of all countries in the world where homosexuality is illegal’. Being that most of the flags that make...
Posted on December 10, 2018
On 10 December 2018, staff of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria were at the University of Kwazunatal to mark the International Human Rights Day at the AfroGames 2018 which included a Symposium on ‘Decolonising of LGBTI rights in Africa’.
Posted on December 07, 2018
Almost half the students that make up this year’s GradStar programme’s top 10 are from the University of Pretoria. Bernice Mabaya and Roger Wyllie, from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, and the Law Faculty’s Kirsten Dempsey and Michelle Oelofse all made the cut.
Posted on December 07, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that Professor Dire Tladi in the Department of Public Law has been awarded the very prestigious Fulbright Research Grant and will take up a position as Global Visiting Professor in Law at the University of California...
Posted on December 05, 2018
At the Centre's Graduation Ceremony on 7 December 2018, which is the last Graduation Ceremony to be presided over by the current Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University, Professor Cheryl de la Rey, an honorary doctorate degree will be awarded to former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke....
Posted on December 04, 2018
On 4 November 2018 the Faculty of Law and in particular the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria said goodbye to Dr Isolde de Villiers who has decided to pursue a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of the Free State as from February 2019. She is leaving the services...
Posted on December 02, 2018
The Department of Mercantile Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that it has experienced a ‘bull market’ of a year.
Posted on November 27, 2018
Christof Heyns, professor in the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, of which he is a member, to lead a two-year process to draft guidelines on the proper management of demonstrations. This will be the leading UN text...
Posted on November 26, 2018
The Centre participated in the CSO forum of the ACERWC which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 9 to 12 November 2018 under the theme, ‘leave no child behind for Africa’s development: Setting the CSO agenda’. The Centre also participated in the 32nd session of the ACERWC...
Posted on November 21, 2018
Dr Joel Modiri presented aspects of his award-winning research paper at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies in New York recently, and will talk about his research again at UCLA Law School in February 2019.
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