Advanced Human Rights Course: Women's Rights in Africa

Posted on January 24, 2020

The course examines the international and regional human rights frameworks that guarantee the human rights of women and girls in Africa, with a particular focus on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (The Maputo Protocol).

Invitation: Civil Society Engagement with the Pan-African Parliament at the Alternative Mining Indaba

Posted on January 22, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to a side-event on Civil Society Engagement with the Pan-African Parliament (PAP). This event will be held on the sidelines of the upcoming Alternative Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa. 

From the Director's Desk: Welcoming Message by Prof Frans Viljoen

Posted on January 22, 2020

The year 2019 was quite momentous for us in the Centre for Human Rights, both in the Centre’s capacity as an academic institution and as an NGO.

Call for Papers: African Disability Rights Yearbook 2020

Posted on January 22, 2020

The African Disability Rights Yearbook (ADRY) is calling for papers for consideration for publication in Section A of the ADRY in 2020. The ADRY publishes once a year with a focus on disability rights issues and developments of contemporary concern to persons with disabilities on the African...

Registration for the 12th Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is now open 

Posted on January 22, 2020

Registration for the 12th Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is now open. 

UP Law well-represented at Southern African Law Teachers Conference 2020

Posted on January 17, 2020

The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is well-represented at the upcoming Annual Conference of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, which will be hosted from 20 to 24 January 2020 in the Kruger National Park, Mpumalanga Province. The theme of the conference is ‘Law,...

Promotions in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria

Posted on January 15, 2020

The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria extends hearty congratulations to the following staff members on their recent promotions: Professors Anton Kok (Acting Head of the Department of Jurisprudence) and Philip Stevens (Department of Public Law) to full professors, and Dr Willem...

TuksSport: 'Introvert' UP law student finds freedom on the judo mat

Posted on January 15, 2020

University of Pretoria (UP) law student Khanya Thamae describes himself as introverted, but the moment he steps onto a judo mat, everything changes.