UP in global top 100 in three Times Higher Education World University Impact Ranking 2019 categories

Posted on April 24, 2020

The University of Pretoria (UP) is ranked among the top 100 universities in the world in three categories of the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2019, based on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The results were announced earlier this week.

African Commission publishes revised Declaration of Principles of Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa amid COVID-19 crisis

Posted on April 23, 2020

The initiative to revise the Declaration was undertaken by the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information. The adoption of the Declaration is a landmark development that elaborates Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and will contribute...

Op-Ed: Democracy in bad health? How COVID-19 is rolling back African civil liberties

Posted on April 23, 2020

Let’s go back to the “trolley problem”. Imagine a group of hostages is chained to a train track with a runaway locomotive hurtling towards them. If the train stays on course, the entire group of hostages is going to die. If the train is derailed, fewer deaths will ensue, but...

Press Statement: University human rights centres call for government intervention to prevent SA correctional centres from becoming COVID-19 killing fields

Posted on April 21, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, call on the South African government to act swiftly to reduce the further spread of COVID-19 in South African correctional centres.

Call for submissions: University Law Press Thesis Prize

Posted on April 20, 2020

PULP is calling students who have completed/will complete, their doctoral studies in law at an African University in 2020 to submit their theses for consideration for the new University Law Press Thesis Prize

Disability rights during the coronavirus pandemic: Launch of the COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor

Posted on April 20, 2020

Evidence is emerging that persons with disabilities are being disproportionately affected by the Coronavirus pandemic and emergency measures being taken by governments worldwide. As governments rush to respond to the virus, it is more critical than ever to guarantee that measures taken are fully...

#AgeWithRights 10-Day Campaign on COVID-19

Posted on April 16, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights in an effort to spearhead the belief of leaving no one behind acknowledges the importance of a rights-based approach to ageing and calls for the promotion and protection of the rights of older persons.

Press release: University of Pretoria law academic appointed on international pandemic commission

Posted on April 16, 2020

The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Professor Dire Tladi was appointed to serve on the Commission dealing with Pandemics and International Law of the Institut de Droit International, based in Geneva, Switzerland.