Posted on August 06, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria announces with great pleasure and pride that its 2018 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team, who ranked fifth in the world at this competition, also won the Richard R Baxter Award for Best Overall Respondent Memorial. This...
Posted on August 06, 2018
In the Africa edition of The Conversation on 1 August 2018, SARChI Professor of International Law and African Economic Relations, Professor Danny Bradlow, in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, provides his views on the recently 2018 10th BRICS Summit hosted by South Africa: 'The...
Posted on July 28, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights - University of Pretoria (CHR), the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), and the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) have sued the United Republic of Tanzania before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for its failure to...
Posted on July 26, 2018
The Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is, together with UNICEF HQ, hosting a UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty - Consultation on Children in Institutions in Pretoria from 26 to 27 July 2018. The main purpose of this event is international...
Posted on July 26, 2018
In celebration of National Women’s Day in South Africa, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the Department of Library Services, cordially invites you to the screening of the award winning documentary ‘The Witches of Gambaga’ by Yaba Badoe.
Posted on July 25, 2018
Civil society organizations in South Africa comprised of a broad collective of human rights and women’s rights organizations and Trade Unions add their voice to the call for immediate and decisive action towards ending violence against women in South Africa.
Posted on July 24, 2018
On Friday 20 July 2018, students from the 14th Cohort of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) (Civic Leadership Track) visited the Centre for Human Rights to learn more about the Centre’s work.
Posted on July 20, 2018
Corlia van Heerden, Professor in Mercantile Law and incumbent of the Barclays Africa Chair in Banking Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria comments on the The Financial Sector Regulation Act 9 of 2017 which has been put into incremental operation since 1 April...
Posted on July 12, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce and congratulate its Centre for Child Law's senior attorney, Anjuli Maistry, and lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence's, Dr Joel Modiri, for being featured on the prestigious 'Mail&Guardian's 200 Young South Africans...
Posted on July 11, 2018
GENEVA (26 June 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea expressed concern that patterns of violations identified over the past six years persist, namely arbitrary and incommunicado detention, indefinite military/national service amounting to forced...
Posted on July 11, 2018
“Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits...
Posted on July 10, 2018
Prof Ann Skelton, Director of the Centre for Child Law, has been appointed an International Ambassador of The British Society of Criminology (BSC). The BSC’s role is to maintain close links with the international criminological community and to spread the work of the society and its members...
Posted on July 10, 2018
In a media release dated 10 July 2018, the Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria expresses 'grave concern about the conditions reported in an IOL article dated 8 July 2018 regarding the treatment of the children housed at Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa Child and...
Posted on July 10, 2018
The Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, in a media release on 9 July 2018, expressed grave concern about the increasing incidences of child marriages in the South Africa and the impact that this has on children and children's rights. Child marriages deny the...
Posted on July 04, 2018
In June 2018, the Department of Mercantile Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria said goodbye to Drs Carias Chokuda and Benjamin Kujinga who have decided to pursue career avenues outside the academia. Dr Carias started his employment on 1 January 2012 and Dr Kujinga on 1 July...
Posted on July 02, 2018
On 28 June 2018, a UP Law moot court team consisting of two speakers, Simon Botha (LLB III) and Simon Motshweni (LLB II), coached by Ruvimbo Samanga (BA Law, LLB IV) and Lawrence-John Maralack (LLB IV) participated in the 2018 African Regional Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court...
Posted on June 26, 2018
The University of Pretoria, working with a global network of research partners (including in Cambridge, Geneva and well-established collaboration with more than a dozen other African universities),
Posted on June 25, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria in collaboration with the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights invites you to a panel discussion on LAW ON POLICE USE OF FORCE WORLDWIDE
Posted on June 25, 2018
On World Refugee Day (20 June 2018) , the Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria spoke to eNCA in a television interview about displaced children, including asylum seekers and refugees.
Posted on June 22, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Charles Maimela in the Department of Public Law received confirmation of his successful completion of a Doctor of Laws through Unisa on ‘Legal issues relating to the treatment of cancer’ in middle June 2018....
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