Invitation: Webinar on the state of the African human rights system: Stakeholder reflections

Posted on November 09, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in partnership with Amnesty International, African Court Coalition, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), Coalition for the Independence of the African Commission (CIAC) and Initiative for Social and Economic...

UP Moot Society team through to the semi-finals of the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

Posted on November 07, 2020

On 23 and 29 September 2020, a University of Pretoria (UP) Moot Society team in the Faculty of Law (UP Law) participated in the preliminary rounds of the 29th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition.

Shadow Reporting Guidelines in response to Resolution 436

Posted on November 05, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, Equality Now and International Commission of Jurists (Kenya Chapter) have drafted Shadow Reporting Guidelines in response to Resolution 436 by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

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.

Africa Rights Talk: Season 2 Episode 17 - Ayodele Sogunro

Posted on November 04, 2020

#EndSARS: Practical implications of the protests on Nigerian citizen. In conversation with Ayodele Sogunro

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...

UP Law's Professor Stéfan van Eck and Dr Kamalesh Newaj cited by Constitutional Court

Posted on November 03, 2020

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that the Constitutional Court in the recent decision of National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa and Others v Aveng Trident Steel (a division of Aveng Africa (Pty) Ltd) and Another 2020 ZACC 23 referred to...

UP Law's Professor Dire Tladi appointed as SARChI Chair for International Constitutional Law

Posted on November 02, 2020

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) extends hearty congratulations to Professor Dire Tladi in its Department of Public Law and Fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa who has been appointed as the National Research Foundation's (NRF)...