The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the largest gathering of students, academics and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa. This annual event brings together all law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Competition aims to prepare a new generation of lawyers to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before the African Court. Since its creation in 1992, the Moot Court Competition has brought together 142 universities from 49 African countries, and spawning the establishment of the leading programmes in the field of human rights teaching and research in Africa. In 2015, the 24th edition of the Moot Court Competition was co-organised by and hosted at the School of Law, University of Zambia, bringing together 183 participants in 61 teams from 20 African countries. In 2015, the themes explored at the Moot Competition include business and human rights, academic freedom, freedom of expression, child marriage and the rights of sexual minorities in Africa. One of the highlights of this year’s Moot was the presence of independence President Kenneth Kaunda who, at 91, breathed life and spirit into the passion and commitment of the future African human rights advocates.

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