Posted on October 11, 2021
UP’s Prof Ann Skelton is a member of the UN Child Rights Committee which has ruled that a State can be found responsible for the negative impact of its carbon emissions on children's rights.
Posted on October 09, 2021
In what has been hailed as a groundbreaking judgment for children born out of wedlock and their fathers, the Constitutional Court in Centre for Child Law v Director-General: Department of Home Affairs [2021] ZACC 31 (22 September 2021) has confirmed the unconstitutionality of section 10 of the...
Posted on October 09, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Law recently hosted a webinar to discuss teaching under COVID-19 and whether conditions brought on by the pandemic compromised the LLB curriculum or enhanced it through the use of technological innovations.
Posted on October 02, 2021
The Disability Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, the Disability Student Unit at the University of Venda and the Mandate of the UN Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of Human Rights by Persons with Albinism cordially invites you to its 1st Live Chat with the...
Posted on September 30, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce and congratulates alumna Nicole Irving on winning the 2020/21 Environmental Law Association of South Africa (ELA) Prize for the Best Essay on 'Conservation crime and pangolin poaching: Tensions between customary...
Posted on September 30, 2021
On behalf of the Project on Public Finance and Human Rightsand its co-sponsors, the International Development Law Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria; the Business and Human Rights Initiative, University of Connecticut and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law,...
Posted on September 29, 2021
Watch Wilson Macharia demonstrate how technology makes things possible for persons with visual impairments as he takes us through a day in his life.
Posted on September 27, 2021
On 15 September 2021, the Disability Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, hosted a report validation workshop at the Taj Pamodzi Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia. The draft report titled ‘Persons with disabilities and barriers to equal access to justice in Zambia: A research...
Posted on September 22, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Law recently hosted a webinar to discuss teaching under COVID-19 and whether conditions brought on by the pandemic compromised the LLB curriculum or enhanced it through the use of technological innovations.
Posted on September 22, 2021
At the 48th Session of the Human Rights Council, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, reiterated the importance of the ratification and entry into force of the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa (Older Persons Protocol).
Posted on September 20, 2021
“We need to move from the single-story syndrome of the traditionally Western university to an institute that is inclusive of our dynamic, diverse society.” – UP Law Deputy Dean on UP's Curriculum Transformation Drive.
Posted on September 17, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria is pleased to announce the publication of the third paper in the African Human Rights Policy Papers series.
Posted on September 17, 2021
“I had no excuse. I had to get out of rehab and finish my dissertation,” says Denis Mitole, who suffered a stroke midway through writing his master’s thesis and who recently graduated in the face of overwhelming odds.
Posted on September 15, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with pride and congratulates Professor of Law Charles Fombad on his appointment as Director of the research institute, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) in UP Law, effective from 1 September 2021.
Posted on September 15, 2021
On 15 September 2021, EndCode and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will co-host the launch of the Model Guidelines on Age-Appropriate Design for Online Services — an Impact Amplifier Africa Online Safety Fund project, funded by Google.org, Google’s philanthropic...
Posted on September 14, 2021
“We cannot use technology in isolation; we have to have a consolidation phase where we actually speak and engage with our students,” said Dr Martha Bradley, a lecturer at UP’s Department of Public Law.
Posted on September 14, 2021
Applications are invited for the award of the first Christof Heyns Human Rights Scholarship. Applications are open to current or prospective doctoral candidates studying towards a doctoral degree in human rights at the University of Pretoria. The Scholarship is for study in 2022.
Posted on September 13, 2021
On Friday 27 August 2021, the Disability Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, hosted a one-day training workshop on the right of persons with disabilities to participate in public and political life in Malawi.
Posted on September 07, 2021
In a country like South Africa, the need for curriculum transformation is very broad and includes deliberate efforts to give platforms for views, culture and ideas that are currently underrepresented in the curriculum, said Professor Barend Erasmus, Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural...
Posted on September 05, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with great pride that Adv Vaughn Rossouw, an LLB UP Law alumnus and LLM candidate in Public International Law at UP Law has achieved the almost unimaginable. Currently a final-year postgraduate student in the programme LLM...
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