Posted on May 11, 2017
In view of strengthening the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (SRRWA), the Gender Unit of the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) organised a three-day refresher workshop on increasing states capacity for reporting under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and...
Posted on May 11, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, expresses deep concern about the treason charge Zambia’s opposition party leader Hakainde Hichilema is facing.
Posted on May 11, 2017
GENEVA (3 May 2017) – The Government of Eritrea must free journalist Dawit Isaak who has been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize some 15 years after he was detained, a United Nations human rights expert says.
Posted on May 11, 2017
A kiki* with Panti (*A gathering of people for a casual chat, laughter, and at times serious discussions. May involve locked doors, tea and gossip.)
Posted on May 09, 2017
What is unique about Africa's approaches to international law? What would be the features of a generalised African approach? These are some of the questions that were tackled at a round table recently hosted by the Centre for Human Rights in the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Law.
Posted on May 05, 2017
On Saturday, 20 May 2017, the University of Pretoria will hold an open day for high school learners from Grades 9 to 12, and their families.
Posted on May 05, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights cordially invites all interested stakeholders attending the NGO Forum preceding the 60th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Niamey, Niger, to its presentation of a proposed Draft Model Law on Intersex Persons Rights in...
Posted on May 05, 2017
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) launched the Disability Rights Scholarship Programme (DRSP) in 2011. The CHR through the Disability Rights Unit has played a significant role of coordinating the DRSP which has included: marketing the...
Posted on May 05, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a brown bag lunch lecture on decolonising the university curriculum by distinguished critical legal scholar, Professor Makau Mutua.
Posted on May 02, 2017
The UP Jessup team finished in the top 16 octofinals after competing against 143 teams representing 95 countries at the international rounds of the 58th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC from 9 to 16 April 2017.
Posted on April 28, 2017
- Faculty of Law honours 2016 academic achievers On 5 April 2017, the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria hosted its annual Recognition of Achievement Function for those students who excelled in the 2016 academic year.
Posted on April 26, 2017
On 24 April 2017, the Centre for Human Rights hosted its first consultative meeting on the Model Law on the rights of intersex persons in Africa. The meeting gathered together intersex rights activists in South Africa, coming from the following organisations: Iranti, AIDS Rights Alliance of...
Posted on April 26, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights joins the rest of South Africa to celebrate Freedom Day 2017. On 27 April 1994, there was a major shift in South Africa’s trajectory with the first non-racial post-apartheid election being held in the country.
Posted on April 26, 2017
While revelling in our glorious past on a day like Freedom Day, we should also reflect on and attend to South Africa's present and future.
Posted on April 20, 2017
The issue of land reform in South Africa was the topic of discussion at a recent symposium on land, heritage and human rights, during which delegates called for urgent dialogue.
Posted on April 20, 2017
The right to life is often described as a supreme human right, but it is clearly under pressure worldwide.The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria for the first time hosted its first annual short course on the right to life from 10-13April 2017. The course brought together several...
Posted on April 18, 2017
TuksLaw Moot Society team members Tinotenda Kakora and Thomas White, coached by Thandeka Khoza, recently participated in the 2nd International Children's Rights Moot Court Competition hosted at Leiden University in the Netherlands. The TuksLaw team excelled and walked away with the silver medal.
Posted on April 13, 2017
The Community Law Centre at the Kara Heritage Institute, the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (George Campus) and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a symposium on land, heritage and human rights.
Posted on April 12, 2017
Since graduating from the Centre in 1998 with his LLM degree, Mr Melron Nicol-Wilson has been an outstanding ambassador of the Centre's values of excellence and ubuntu, through his work as a human rights defender in Sierra Leone and abroad.
Posted on April 11, 2017
“The [Maputo] Protocol stands as a comprehensive instrument that demonstrates the good will of African States to end all forms of violence against women... Notwithstanding that, our role as women has been fraught with challenges and circumstances of vulnerability”.
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