Posted on June 24, 2016
Prof Christof Heyns, former Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria (UP), was nominated by the South African Government as its candidate to the prestigious 18-member United Nations Human Rights Committee in March 2016, and was...
Posted on June 22, 2016
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is reaching out to our TuksLaw alumni to request financial support for our students in need. In spite of significant contributions by the University, many students are still in dire need of financial support. It is reality for a large number of...
Posted on June 20, 2016
Celebrating Youth Day, introduced in the post-apartheid era, always has a historical dimension, but this is even pronounced this year, which marks a landmark 40 years since those fateful events of 16 June 1976.
Posted on June 20, 2016
On 17 May 2016 the Seychelles parliament passed a landmark bill to amend the country’s Penal Code to decriminalise sodomy. This was fittingly done on the day of the commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Bi-phobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT or IDAHOBiT).
Posted on June 17, 2016
Across the country and the globe TuksLaw alumni are going from strength to strength - one of them is TuksLaw alumnus Michael Dafel who is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. His research focuses on the extent to which private individuals and...
Posted on June 16, 2016
Message from Dean André Boraine to the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria on Youth Day: "Today we as South Africans commemorate the tragedy of 16 June 1976. It, perhaps, became the single most important event serving as a catalyst for the birth of a new democratic South Africa. In...
Posted on June 15, 2016
Students and staff from the Faculty of Law are being spoilt twice-weekly during the month of June with a choice of hot drinks during exam time by the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. As Gauteng was hit by a cold front and rain resulting in freezing temperaturses one of TuksLaw’s students...
Posted on June 14, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights is pleased to announce the call for applications for the following three Master's degrees to be offered in 2017:
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