Press Statement: Launch of the Children’s Privacy Guidelines for Online Service Providers

Posted on September 15, 2021

On 15 September 2021, EndCode and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will co-host the launch of the Model Guidelines on Age-Appropriate Design for Online Services — an Impact Amplifier Africa Online Safety Fund project, funded by Google.org, Google’s philanthropic...

Call for Applications: Christof Heyns Human Rights Scholarship

Posted on September 14, 2021

Applications are invited for the award of the first Christof Heyns Human Rights Scholarship. Applications are open to current or prospective doctoral candidates studying towards a doctoral degree in human rights at the University of Pretoria. The Scholarship is for study in 2022.

Centre for Human Rights hosts a training on participation of persons with disabilities in public and political life in Malawi

Posted on September 13, 2021

On Friday 27 August 2021, the Disability Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, hosted a one-day training workshop on the right of persons with disabilities to participate in public and political life in Malawi.

UP Law LLM student and Advocate Vaughn Rossouw’s article accepted for publication in the International Review of the Red Cross (IRRC)

Posted on September 05, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with great pride that Adv Vaughn Rossouw, an LLB UP Law alumnus and LLM candidate in Public International Law at UP Law has achieved the almost unimaginable. Currently a final-year postgraduate student in the programme LLM...

Three UP Law alumnae officially receive Institutional Yunus Mahomed Public Interests Awards for Law, Business and Ethics

Posted on September 05, 2021

During a live-stream event on 30 August 2021, three Faculty of Law (UP Law) alumnae, Sohela Surajpal, Mankhuwe Letsoalo and Zenia Pero from the University of Pretoria (UP) officially received their respective Institutional Yunus Mahomed Public Interest Awards for Law, Business and Ethics...

Invitation: Webinar on spatial (in)justice and the post-apartheid state

Posted on September 03, 2021

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to a webinar organised by the Democracy and Civic Engagement Unit on spatial (in)justice and the post-apartheid state.

Centre for Human Rights hosts in-country state reporting workshop in Sierra Leone

Posted on September 02, 2021

About a month after the African region reflected on progress in realising women’s rights with the adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) 18 years ago, the Centre for Human Rights, University...

Centre presents 2021 edition of annual capacity building workshop on strategic litigation and advocacy for LGBTI+ human rights defenders in Africa

Posted on September 02, 2021

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, hosted a week-long capacity building workshop on strategic litigation and advocacy for LGBTI+ human rights defenders in Africa.