#CRC30: Meet Melanie Smuts from the Global Campus Alumni

Posted on November 15, 2019

30 years have passed since world leaders adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Many alumni from the Global Campus Alumni network dedicated their professional lives to transform children’s lives around the world.

Joint Statement: Cameroon – Open letter to President Macron about human rights abuses in Cameroon

Posted on November 13, 2019

Dear President Macron: We, the undersigned scholars, writers, and human rights advocates, write to plead with France to up its engagement in resolving Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, described by some analysts as “Rwanda in slow motion”.

7th Annual Disability Rights Conference puts the spotlight on the right of persons with disabilities to live in the community

Posted on November 12, 2019

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (UP), is currently hosting the annual disability rights in Africa conference at Southern Sun Hotel, OR Tambo International Airport.

UP’s Faculty of Law scores first for Africa with third consecutive year in THE global top 100 university subject rankings

Posted on November 12, 2019

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Law has for the third consecutive year been ranked in Times Higher Education’s (THE) 2020 survey of the Top 100 World University Rankings by subject. This achievement is unparalleled in South Africa and Africa.

Centre for Human Rights congratulates new Dean of Faculty of Law at UP

Posted on November 08, 2019

The Centre for Human Rights wishes to congratulate Prof Elsabe Schoeman on her appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, for the period 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2023. We are pleased to note that Prof Schoeman is also the first woman to be appointed in this...

UP welcomes new Dean of the Faculty of Law Professor Elsabe Schoeman

Posted on November 08, 2019

The University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law congratulates Professor Elsabe Schoeman on her appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Law for the period 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2023.

Centre for Human Rights presents the 7th Annual Disability Rights Conference

Posted on November 07, 2019

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will be hosting a regional conference titled ‘Fulfilling the right of persons with disabilities to live in the community: Promoting choice, inclusion and participation’. The 7th Annual Disability Rights Conference will be held on 11...

Centre for Human Rights trains justice personnel in Botswana on access to justice for persons with disabilities

Posted on November 06, 2019

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, held a two-day training workshop on access to justice for persons with disabilities in Gaborone, Botswana from 29 to 30 October 2019.