Report: Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in Africa

Posted on May 24, 2017

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria hosted its annual short course on the judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights in Africa from 15-19 May 2017. The course brought together 60 participants from across Africa, mainly representing civil society, members of judiciary, national...

Invitation: Trade and Investment Law Seminar Series (TILSS) - Speaker: Professor Babatunde Fagbayibo

Posted on May 23, 2017

The International Development Law Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a seminar series titled “Trade & Investment Law Seminar Series (TILSS)”

Invitation: Trade and Investment Law Seminar Series (TILSS) - Speaker: Ms Yolandi Meyer

Posted on May 23, 2017

The International Development Law Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a seminar series titled “Trade & Investment Law Seminar Series (TILSS)”

Applications are now open for the 15th International Human Rights Colloquium, which will be held in São Paulo, Brasil, from 1 to 6 October 2017

Posted on May 23, 2017

We invite activists from the Global South to debate the challenges that the current context poses to human rights across the world.

Call for Papers: 5th Annual Disability Rights Conference - ‘Domesticating the CRPD in the African region: A focus on access to justice and legal capacity’

Posted on May 22, 2017

The 5th Annual African Disability Rights Conference will be held from the 7th to the 8th of November 2017 at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa. This year’s conference will focus on the following themes:

Statement of the Centre for Human Rights on the Intersession Report of the Working Group on the Death Penalty and Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions

Posted on May 20, 2017

The Centre for Human Rights welcomes the ongoing work of the Working Group on the Death Penalty and Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Killings in Africa to continue placing questions concerning the right to life, the supreme human right, high on the agenda of the African Commission.

Statement by the Gender Unit, Centre for Human Rights on the occasion of the 60th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights held at the Palais des Congres, Niamey, Niger from the 8 May to 22 May 2017

Posted on May 19, 2017

Part of the work we do at the Gender Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria is to support the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa especially with respect to the popularization as well as the implementation of the Maputo Protocol across Africa

Centre for Human Rights takes part in African Children’s Rights Committee hearing on implementation

Posted on May 17, 2017

At the recently concluded 29th Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (African Children’s Rights Committee) held in Lesotho, the Centre for Human Rights and RADDHO, an NGO based in Senegal, participated and presented a joint submission on the...