INVITATION: Global webinar on peaceful (and not so peaceful) assemblies

Posted on December 14, 2020

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, cordially invite you to a global webinar on peaceful (and not so peaceful) assemblies: A fresh look at the international standards.

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Global Webinar

Wednesday 16 December 2020
Webinar (Zoom)
13:00 GMT  /  14:00 WAT  /  15:00 SAST  /  16:00 EAT 

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Theme: Peaceful (and not so peaceful) assemblies: A fresh look at the international standards

Keynote speakers

  • Prof Tawana Kupe
    Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria
  • Ilze Brands Kehris
    UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights

Co-Moderators

  • Abigail Noko
    Regional Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights for Southern Africa
  • Prof Frans Viljoen
    Director of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria

Panellists

  • Prof Christof Heyns
    Member of the UN Human Rights Committee and Rapporteur for General Comment 37; Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Pretoria
  • Clément Nyaletsossi Voule
    UN Special Rapporteur on the freedoms of assembly and association
  • Barbara Fontana
    Head of Human Rights Section, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN in Geneva
  • Francesca Fanucci
    Senior Legal Advisor, European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law
  • Commissioner Luís Carrilho
    Police Advisor, Police Division, UN Department of Peace Operations

Background

During 2020, the United Nations issued two new international instruments on peaceful assembly, which set out the “rules of engagement” for assemblies worldwide, in order to allow participants to pursue change while ensuring that tensions are de-escalated and violence is avoided.

The UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment 37 on the right of peaceful assembly and the UN Human Rights Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement restate key elements of the international standards on peaceful assemblies.

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