Can one go to any extent during protests to have your human rights respected in South Africa?

Posted on April 26, 2016

Ashwanee Budoo from the Gender Unit at the Centre for Human Rights spoke to SABC Morning Live (video below) on the the naked protest staged at Rhodes University, where female students caused quite a stir last week when they protested against sexual violence half-naked.

TuksLaw hosts international Judicial Workshop on Environmental Rights

Posted on April 21, 2016

On Friday, 16 April 2016, the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, was host to an international Judicial Workshop on Environmental Rights to provide practical and theoretical grounding in the implementation of environmental rights and serve as the springboard for the...

UP Professor appointed as Marcel Storme Chair in Civil Procedure at University of Gent

Posted on April 15, 2016

The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce the appointment of one of its extraordinary professors in the Department of Procedural Law, Danie van Loggerenberg, as the Marcel Storme Chair at Gent University in Belgium for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Centre urges implementation of Shumba case; and calls on African Commission to reassert its own independence

Posted on April 08, 2016

Statement of the Centre for Human Rights (University of Pretoria) 58th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul, The Gambia, 7 April 2016

CHR and ICAR Release Comprehensive Study of Business and Human Rights Law and Policy in South Africa

Posted on April 07, 2016

5 April 2016 - Today, the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) at the University of Pretoria and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) are pleased to jointly release the “Shadow” National Baseline Assessment (NBA) of Current Implementation of Business and Human Rights...

Invitation: Public Lecture - 'Academic freedom in Africa under attack: A tribute to Professor Cistac'

Posted on April 07, 2016

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a public lecture on 'Academic freedom in Africa under attack: A tribute to Professor Cistac'. Speaker: Dr Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua Member, Ghana Bar and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of...

Four CHR academics contribute to Amnesty International publication on human rights in the foreign policy of South Africa

Posted on March 29, 2016

Four academics associated with the Centre for Human Rights contributed to the third volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series which contains a collection of eleven essays on South Africa’s foreign human rights policy. (Contributors: Prof Magnus Killander, Dr Dan Kuwali,...

Report: Rwanda’s withdrawal of its acceptance of direct individual access to the African Human Rights Court

Posted on March 22, 2016

On 11 March 2016, the Centre of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, held a panel discussion on the legal and political consequences of Rwanda’s withdrawal of its declaration under article 34(6) of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on...