Event Invitation: Guidelines for shadow reports of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Posted on October 19, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Equality Now and ICJ-Kenya cordially invite you to a side event to introduce the Guidelines to stakeholders on the side-lines of the 73rd Ordinary Session.

Invitation: Side-event during the 73rd Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

Posted on October 13, 2022

Amnesty International, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly are hosting an event on Protecting The Right To Protest in Africa on the Side-lines of the ACHPR 73rd Ordinary Session.

First Advanced Human Rights Course on Data Protection highlights the relationship between human rights protection and data protection in Africa

Posted on October 10, 2022

The Expression, Information and Digital Rights (EIDR) Unit of the Centre for Human Rights (Centre), University of Pretoria, supported by Google, hosted the first Advanced Human Rights Course on Data Protection in Africa (Course).

Advanced Human Rights Course: Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons in Africa

Posted on October 07, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will host a 5-day intensive virtual course on the protection of forcibly displaced persons in Africa from 21 to 25 November 2022.

Advanced Human Rights Course: Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Posted on October 07, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights will host a hybrid format...

The 11th Annual Child Law Moot Court Competition, 2022

Posted on October 05, 2022

On 23rd to 24th September 2022 the Centre for Child Law hosted its 11th Annual Child Law Moot Court competition, and the theme for this year was children's environmental rights in the context of sustainable development and climate change.

UP Law's Professor Jacolien Barnard appointed to editorial board of the South African Law Journal

Posted on October 03, 2022

UP Law congratulates Professor Jacolien Barnard from the Department of Mercantile Law on her appointment to the editorial board of the South African Law Journal (SALJ), one of our leading South African law journals.

Call for applications: Capacity building workshop on the African human rights system for South African civil society organisations

Posted on October 03, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, is organizing a capacity-building workshop on engagement with the African human rights system for South African civil society organisations (CSOs).