Webinar invitation: Protecting persons displaced in the context of climate change and disasters in Africa

Posted on July 19, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with the UNHCR Regional Office for Southern Africa, cordially invites you to the webinar on k‘Protecting persons displaced in the context of climate change and disasters in Africa’.

Top achieving UP law student heading to the UK on a special travel bursary

Posted on July 18, 2022

Tiara Joseph is one of 18 students from 20 South African universities to win this prestigious bursary, part of the legacy of Abe Bailey (1864-1940), who was a Rand mining magnate and a provincial cricketer.

Professor Stevens of UP’s Faculty of Law unpacks the emerging field of neurolaw in his inaugural lecture

Posted on July 18, 2022

Professor Philip Stevens of the Department of Public Law recently delivered his inaugural lecture, presenting the topic ‘Criminal Law in the Wake of Science – Can Neuroscience Inform the Criminal Law? Medico-Legal Perspectives from South Africa’.

Call for Abstracts: 5th International Conference on the Right to Development

Posted on July 18, 2022

Fifth International Conference on the Right to Development under the theme ‘Realising the Right to Development: Between coups d’état and the syndrome of a life presidency in Africa’.

Webinar Invitation: Africa Online Regional Consultation on the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation, including in emergencies

Posted on June 27, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights cordially invites stakeholders including States parties, right-holders under the Convention, principally persons with disabilities through their representative organizations, other civil society organizations, independent monitoring mechanisms, national human rights...

How Development Finance Institutions Can Support Renewable Energy in the Southern African Development Community

Posted on June 27, 2022

In November 2020, a report by the SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE); Center for Human Rights (CHR); the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) and others found the SADC region could potentially attain full energy access and 53 percent...

Press Statement: Centre for Human Rights condemns disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice

Posted on June 27, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, condemns the disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice Bheki Maphalala. The Chief Justice disbarred Mr Simelane by way of notice in April 2018 on the basis of alleged contempt. Since he was banned from...

Invitation: Hybrid Conference on the Rights of the Child, Domestication and Application of the African Children’s Charter

Posted on June 20, 2022

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a hybrid conference on children’s rights organised by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. The conference is scheduled, to take place from 28 - 29 June 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa.