Posted on April 17, 2023
On February 25, 2023 the Nigerian presidential elections were held. Nigerian voters came out in their numbers to cast their ballots to select the next president after outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari stepped down. This was against a political background of mounting unhappiness and widespread...
Posted on April 17, 2023
The Centre for Human Rights (the Centre) in partnership with Women in Law in Southern Africa (WLSA), Lesotho hosted a one-day stakeholders’ meeting on compliance with the concluding observations and recommendations under the Protocol to the Maputo Protocol.
Posted on April 12, 2023
This was one of Professor Babatunde Fagbayibo’s arguments as he presented his published paper titled Choral intervention: reimagining international law pedagogy in Africa through music at the Department of Jurisprudence’s second research seminar for 2023.
Posted on April 06, 2023
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) continues to perform exceptionally well in international rankings
Posted on April 05, 2023
On 31 March 2023, the Expression, Information and Digital Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights welcomed the team from Lawyers Hub Kenya. The delegation was led by the CEO and founder Linda Bonyo.
Posted on April 04, 2023
As part of the Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, which takes place from 3 - 9 September 2023, at the Faculty of Law, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, a one-day International Human Rights Conference will also be held on 4 September 2023...
Posted on April 03, 2023
The UP Law Moot team has won the national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup competition and will represent the University and South Africa during the Jessup International Law Moot competition in Washington, D.C., United States of America.
Posted on March 31, 2023
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (Centre), is proud to commemorate Trans Day of Visibility, which falls every year and is celebrated internationally on 31 March.
Posted on March 30, 2023
Case Discussion on African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights judgement on the case against Morocco’s occupation of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Posted on March 29, 2023
UP representatives meet with Ghent University delegation to discuss strengthening collaborations through transdisciplinary research, staff and student exchange, and forging new partnerships.
Posted on March 28, 2023
On 4 March 2023, the Centre for Human Rights SOGIESC Unit team was in Cape Town to commemorate the final event on the World Pride calendar. The Pride Festival, hosted by Cape Town Pride and Outreach Africa, was supported by various organisations involved in the realisation of rights and freedoms...
Posted on March 27, 2023
The Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) Unit, in collaboration with Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Office (GEADO) at the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice, University of Free State recently hosted a one day training...
Posted on March 24, 2023
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, is proud to announce the open-access publication of volume six (2022) of the African Human Rights Yearbook and volume four of the African Court Law Report (covering case decided in 2020) both published under the Pretoria University Law Press...
Posted on March 23, 2023
On 22 March 2023, the Centre for Human Rights Democracy and Civic Engagement Unit convened a Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) dialogue in partnership with the European Union that interrogated the state of human rights in South Africa.
Posted on March 21, 2023
South Africa's Human Rights Day is a national day historically linked to the Sharpeville events of 21 March 1960. It is commemorated each year in order to remind South Africans of the sacrifices that came with achieving democracy. As a result of the commemoration, the country has an opportunity...
Posted on March 17, 2023
The Department of Mercantile Law is extremely proud to share that the High Court of KwaZuluNatal in the recent decision of S v Zuma and Another (CCD 30/2018P) [2023] ZAKZPHC 10 (30 January 2023) cited an article published by Dr Chuks Okpaluba, and Prof Maloka titled, “Recusal of a...
Posted on March 14, 2023
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in partnership with the University of Antwerp with support of the Flemish government cordially invite you to Roundtable Dialogue on Litigation of the Right to Development in Domestic Courts in Africa
Posted on March 13, 2023
The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition together with the Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition invites mooters from across the world to join in a workshop for memorial writing skills.
Posted on March 10, 2023
The Department of Mercantile Law is proud to announce that Professor Tumo Maloka, has been cited by the Kwazulu-Natal High Court, in Pietermaritzburg on 30 January 2023.The citations are uprooted from a paper that Professor Maloka co-authored with Prof C Okpaluba titled,“Recusal of a judge...
Posted on March 09, 2023
Centre for Human Rights, doctoral candidate Brian Kibirango is the latest recipient of the Christof Heyns memorial scholarship.
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