Posted on August 13, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with great pride that Dr Martha M Bradley, a lecturer in its Department of Public Law, has the honour of being the first female UP Law academic specialising in international humanitarian law to publish in the...
Posted on August 13, 2021
The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) is proud to announce that one of its students’ papers published in its Pretoria Student Law Review’s 2020 Special Edition has won the first prize of the Yunus Mohamed Public Interest Award for Law, Business and Ethics. The...
Posted on August 12, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to the virtual launch of Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: Constraints and Opportunities, which explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the...
Posted on August 11, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, cordially invites you to its 9th Annual Disability Rights Conference on 16 and 17 November 2021 which will take place virtually via Zoom.
Posted on August 11, 2021
The latest HRDA Chronicles episode features Musu Bakoto Sawo, who is an advocate for girls' rights. She also engages communities on harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage.
Posted on August 10, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria wishes to congratulate Professor Attiya Warris on her recent appointment as the United Nations Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Financial Transactions.
Posted on August 09, 2021
This year’s Women’s Day is celebrated under the theme “Generation equality: Realising women’s rights for an equal future”. Generation equality is a global campaign that highlights the existing gender inequality in the world and the need to address it. Choosing this...
Posted on August 05, 2021
The webinar brought together some of the leading minds in children’s rights and the law from across the African continent, all of whom discussed how failing to adhere to these rights affect children.
Posted on August 04, 2021
UP's Professor Charles Maimela said the faculty is humbled by Former Deputy Chief Justice Dr Dikgang Moseneke’s generous donation, which includes items from his personal, political and judicial career.
Posted on August 04, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) annually presents an Advanced Human Rights Course on Civil Society Law in Africa.
Posted on August 03, 2021
In this episode, Tariro Sekeramayi is in conversation with Bonolo Makgale, discussing the use of social media as a tool of activism, protest and solidarity in the region, with a particular look at Eswatini, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
Posted on August 03, 2021
As of 1 August 2021, Prof Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango has become the first black woman professor and head of department in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.
Posted on July 29, 2021
Recently, three graduates of the Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) programme from Ethiopia were appointed as Deputy Chief Commissioner and Commissioners for the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on 25 June 2021.
Posted on July 27, 2021
The Helen Kanzira Lecture is an annual lecture on sexual and reproductive rights in Africa, held within the framework of a consortium of 13 African universities that present the Master’s programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA).
Posted on July 27, 2021
As part of the course and a contribution to the Centre for Human Rights’ #Tech4Rights campaign, this episode discusses online violence sexual minorities. The Centre for Human Rights’ 2021 theme, #Tech4Rights: Rethinking a human rights-based approach to new technologies in Africa,...
Posted on July 22, 2021
On 16 July 2021, the Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, hosted the Julius Osega Memorial Lecture.
Posted on July 22, 2021
The Expression, Information and Digital Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is calling for contributions for the #Tech4Rights Expo, which will be held from 26 to 29 October 2021.
Posted on July 22, 2021
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, the School of Law, SOAS University of London, the SOAS Centre of African Studies and Cambridge University Press, cordially invite you to the virtual launch of the Journal of African Law (JAL) Special Issue on Refugees, Returnees...
Posted on July 20, 2021
A number of firsts as 13th Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is concluded online
Posted on July 20, 2021
#Tech4Rights- Children’s rights to privacy in the digital sphere in Africa
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