Invitation: Discussion - The Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark Project and its Potential Applicability to South Africa’s Financial Sector

Posted on September 02, 2021

The Project on Public Finance and Human Rights cordially invites you to attend an online discussion entitled, “The Financial Services Human Rights Benchmark Project and its Potential Applicability to South Africa’s Financial Sector”.

Call for Abstracts: 4th International Conference on the Right to Development

Posted on August 27, 2021

The Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the National University of Lesotho present the Fourth International Conference on the Right to Development on the thematic of ‘Right to...

Centre for Human Rights and University of Antwerp present annual course on the right to development in Africa

Posted on August 26, 2021

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria in partnership with the University of Antwerp, Belgium, annually present an Advanced Human Rights Course (AHRC) on the Right to Development in Africa. In 2021, the course was presented from 16 to 20 August. As a result of the...

UP Law lecture reflects on teaching and learning using technological innovations during and post-COVID-19

Posted on August 25, 2021

Even before COVID-19 forced education online, technology played an important role in the sector and now, more than ever, it needs to become an integral part of teaching and assessment practices, said Lizelle le Roux, Lecturer in the Faculty of Law’s Department of Jurisprudence at the...

Brill publishes two of UP Law Professor Dire Tladi’s works in one week

Posted on August 25, 2021

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud and delighted to announce two publications of Professor Dire Tladi, NRF SARChI Chair in International Constitutional Law, Professor in the Department of Public Law and a Fellow at the Institute of Comparative and...

Africa Rights Talk: Season 3 Episode 10 - The role of state institutions in preventing violent conflict: A case of Angola

Posted on August 24, 2021

In this episode, Dr Eduardo Kapapelo who was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree (DPhil) from the Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria discusses his doctoral thesis. In his thesis, Dr Kapapelo identifies how reforming the state and its institutions are vital not...

‘We cannot use technology in isolation’ – UP Faculty of Law hosts second lecture series on online teaching and learning and finding a way forward post COVID-19

Posted on August 23, 2021

While technology has come to the rescue of higher education institutions and their students after COVID-19 disrupted contact learning at the beginning of 2020, the importance of lecturers connecting with students, even through technology, cannot be overstated, said Dr Martha Bradley, a lecturer...

Op-Ed by Lithalethemba Stwayi: The need for more pro-active, responsive and protective measures to curb teenage pregnancy

Posted on August 20, 2021

According to the Gauteng Health MEC, “between April 2020 and March 2021, the province of Gauteng recorded 23 226 teenage pregnancies, with 934 girls being between the ages of 10- and 14-years giving birth”. The statistics are incredibly alarming because under South African law...