Faculty mourns tragic death of final year LLB student

Posted on July 18, 2013

The Faculty of Law mourns the tragic death of one of our final year law students, Jakkie (Jacobus) Stander, on 16 July 2013 following a car accident on 6 July.

Multi-pronged response required to curb Xenophobia in South Africa

Posted on June 07, 2013

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, expresses its concern over the most recent upsurge in xenophobic violence across South Africa. This comes in the wake of reports on the attacks on, and killings of, Somalian nationals in

Light-footed Law Librarian conquers Comrades

Posted on June 06, 2013

Audrey Lenoge, an Information Specialist in the OR Tambo Law Library at the Faculty of Law is the proud holder of a bronze Comrades medal after she completed the race on Sunday, 2 June 2013. Audrey says that she was on the road from 05:30 until 17:20.

Call for Abstracts: Conference on Rights of Women in Africa

Posted on June 04, 2013

Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa: Exploring possibilities for promoting women’s sexual and reproductive rights.

LLM/MPhil students launch HIV information tool in Hammanskraal

Posted on June 04, 2013

The Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA) in collaboration with the University of Pretoria runs a para-legal advice bureau for people living with HIV/AIDS in Hammanskraal. The bureau is called The Place and it offers HIV related information along with struct

LLM/MPhil Photography Competition: Human Rights & Democracy through Photography

Posted on June 03, 2013

Students of the LLM/MPhil Programme took part in a photography competition to promote the ideals of human rights and democratisation through still pictures. The LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa is a unique programme to which 30 i

Call for Abstracts: Conference on Disability Rights in Africa

Posted on May 31, 2013

The Centre for Human Rights invites abstracts for a conference on disability rights with a focus on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the African region.

Presentation on EU perspectives on human rights and foreign policy

Posted on May 30, 2013

In a presentation at the Centre for Human Rights, the European Union (EU) Special Representative for Human Rights, Stavros Lambrinidis, who is in South Africa for the first EU/SA human rights dialogue, highlighted key issues in the EU's foreign policy.