Posted on August 28, 2020
The Disability Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights cordially invites you to join a training in Strengthening Advocacy Skills in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond: Human Rights Training for Organizations Representing Persons with Albinism in Southern Africa.
Posted on August 27, 2020
Sport is about fair play that is why Tuks's professor Steve Cornelius will never hesitate to involve himself if he can help right a wrong.
Posted on August 24, 2020
The International Development Law Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to the opening session of the 4th Annual Distributed Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference (D-DebtCon4). The opening session will start a 15:00 (SAST) and the keynote address...
Posted on August 18, 2020
'Elections are not just a mechanical process, they are a complicated constitutional issue that goes to the heart of politics”.
Posted on August 14, 2020
The Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS & Gender at the University of Pretoria, hosted a webinar on the UP Trans Protocol (the ‘Protocol’), a document developed for UP’s Institutional Transformation Committee (ITC) to address the...
Posted on August 13, 2020
Professor Daleen Millard in the Department of Private Law, who joined the Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) at the beginning of July 2020, has recently published her first publication under the UP flag in Juta’s Law Insurance Bulletin, Volume 23 No 2 of 2020.
Posted on August 12, 2020
On 6 August 2020, the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP) based at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, held its first-ever virtual book launch. The edited volume of essays titled Exploring the link between poverty and human rights in Africa is edited by Ebenezer...
Posted on August 09, 2020
Women’s Day commemorates the march by about 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956, to protest the introduction of regulations on movement, also known as pass laws by the government of South Africa at the time. The march to the Union Buildings was accompanied by...
Posted on August 08, 2020
On 9 August South Africans celebrate National Women’s Day. It is the day that our country celebrates phenomenal women and their impact on their communities and their country - women who have made a mark in their various communities on a national and often on an international level. This...
Posted on August 07, 2020
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes the appointment by President Ramaphosa of two special envoys to engage with the deteriorating conditions in Zimbabwe. However, we regret the characterisation of a situation of serious human rights violations as...
Posted on August 07, 2020
The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to an Online Seminar under the theme “Assessing the Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic regulations on Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Eastern...
Posted on August 07, 2020
In answer to the question “What would it take to turn the tide of the negation of women’s rights”, a webinar commemorating Women’s Month identified two main responses: the need for mobilisation at grass root street level, and the need for building closer partnerships...
Posted on August 06, 2020
The first issue of the 2020 volume of the African Human Rights Law Journal (AHRLJ) is published today (6 August 2020). The publication of this volume of the AHRLJ marks twenty years since the Journal has first appeared. The African Human Rights Law Journal, which is the only scholarly journal...
Posted on August 04, 2020
The COVID-19 Disability Rights Monitor Coordinating Group express their alarm about increasing police violence against persons with disabilities in the context of the pandemic, and are calling on governments around the world to take urgent steps to prevent acts of brutality.
Posted on August 04, 2020
The episode lays a foundation to understand who indigenous peoples are and the challenges they face from a global perspective. Professor Cyndy Baskin explains the similarities and differences of the plight of indigenous peoples from developing and developed nations.
Posted on August 03, 2020
The most recent volume of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal was published on 31 July 2020. It comprises a special focus feature, foregrounding selected developments in the area of children’s rights’. The special focus results from a cooperation agreement between the Global Campus...
Posted on August 03, 2020
The International Development Law Unit (IDLU) at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the Boston University, Global Development Policy Center, the SADC Development Finance Resource Centre (SADC-DFRC), the SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and...
Posted on August 02, 2020
Professor Dire Tladi in the Department of Public Law and a Fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria appears in Issue 5 of the Legal Pages, July 2020, on ‘The impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on International...
Posted on July 31, 2020
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria extends hearty congratulations to Professor Charles Maimela on his appointment as the Deputy Dean: Teaching and Learning of the Faculty of Law for the period 1 August 2020 to 30 April 2024. He is the youngest (32 years) and first black Deputy Dean...
Posted on July 30, 2020
The United Nations Human Rights Committee last week adopted comprehensive standards on the way in which States should deal with peaceful assemblies. These guidelines are authoritative for the 173 States in the world that have ratified the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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