UP Law staff’s COVID-19 related activities from July to September 2020

Posted on November 10, 2020

Work and the traditional workplace as we used to know it have been profoundly interrupted by the COVID-19 onslaught. The pandemic spread like wildfire, causing health and socio-economic destruction in its global wake. However, lecturers of the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of...

Developing a coherent set of international standards on the management of demonstrations

Posted on November 05, 2020

Members of the Freedom from Violence Unit of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, have for the last five years been leading the process in the United Nations (UN) to develop a coherent set of international standards on the management of demonstrations.

UP Law's Dr Gustav Muller provides feedback to Minister on proposed policy and direction on rapid deployment of electronic communications networks and facilities

Posted on November 04, 2020

On 22 July 2020, the Minister for Communications and Digital Technologies, Ms Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, published a policy and policy direction in Government Notice 800 in GG 43537, dealing with the Electronic Communications Act 36 of 2005. In response, the Faculty of Law's (UP Law) Dr Gustav...

EXPERT ANALYSIS: Addressing the human rights issues that COVID-19 exposed: An imperative for Africa’s success in building back better

Posted on October 21, 2020

Expert Analysis by Solomon A. Dersso, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Karabo Ozah, Director of the UP Centre for Child Law, is playing a vital role in urging the South African Government to drastically increase the implementation of social safety net interventions

Posted on October 14, 2020

Karabo Ozah, Director of the Centre for Child Law (CCL) in the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP), is playing a vital role in urging the South African government to drastically increase their social safety net interventions.

Webinar Invitation: Marking 20 years of the African Human Rights Law Journal

Posted on October 06, 2020

The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) invites you to a webinar to mark 20 years of the African Human Rights Law Journal.

Press Statement: Centre for Human Rights condemns recent march against foreign nationals in South Africa

Posted on September 24, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, is distressed by the march on 23 September 2020 against foreign nationals in the City of Tshwane (#PutSouthAfricansFirst). The marchers targeted Nigerians and Zimbabweans, in particular.

Op-ed: UP Law Professor Dire Tladi: 'The Role of the Public in the Search for a Progressive International Law'

Posted on September 18, 2020

Can international law address the most pressing concerns of society? On Thursday 10 September I was honoured to present the 25th University of Pretoria Expert Lecture, which explored whether international law can address the most pressing concerns of society? The pressing concerns of our society...