Posted on July 10, 2019
The Simon Nkoli Collective is a partnership with the Dean’s Office - Faculty of Humanities, Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G), Centre for Human Rights (CHR), and the Sociology Department. The Collective’s aim is to use this exhibition to open debates on...
Posted on July 09, 2019
African Union (AU) leaders will gather in Niger on 7 July for an Extraordinary Summit to discuss the African Continental Free Trade Area. They will be meeting at a critical moment for the continent. Many African countries are experiencing uneven growth and rising debt. All face an uncertain...
Posted on July 09, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) congratulates senior lecturer Dr Llewelyn Curlewis in the Department of Procedural Law on completing his 25th Comrades Marathon on 9 June 2019 in seven hours, 45 minutes. There is reason to believe that he is the first UP athlete who has...
Posted on July 08, 2019
The final round of the 28th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, which took place on 06 July 2019 at the Law Hight Court of Botswana, Gaborone, was won by the combined team comprising the University of Nairobi, University Namibia and Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny.
Posted on July 08, 2019
On 5 July 2019, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in conjunction with the Faculty of Law, University of Botswana organised an International Conference on the Protection of Persons Forcibly Displaced in Africa in Africa.
Posted on July 02, 2019
Teams are gearing up for an intense two days of knock out rounds that will whittle 40 participating teams to just 6, with 3 teams per side expected to argue before the Chief Justice at the High Court Complex of Botswana on Saturday the 6th of July 2019.
Posted on July 01, 2019
The 28th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition was officially opened by, Honorable Dr Unity Dow the Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation on the 1 July 2019.
Posted on June 21, 2019
On 13 June 2019 the Disability Rights Unit and the Advocacy Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, in partnership with the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), celebrated International Albinism Awareness Day.
Posted on June 21, 2019
From 3 to 5 June 2019, the Women’s Rights Unit at the Centre of Human Rights, University of Pretoria hosted a three-day capacity building workshop on state reporting on the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (African Charter) and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human...
Posted on June 20, 2019
With heavy hearts staff and students from the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (UP) bid farewell to Dr Tshepo Madlingozi, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence, at the end of May 2019. This follows on Dr Madlingozi’s resignation after 16 years at UP to take up the...
Posted on June 20, 2019
The Women's Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, coordinated a 4-day state reporting workshop from 26 to 30 May 2019 in the Kingdom of Eswatini. The aim of the workshop was to draft the State Party Report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. The...
Posted on June 20, 2019
On 6 June 2019, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, held an advocacy meeting on the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa in Liberia.
Posted on June 20, 2019
The United Nations General Assembly decided that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day in Resolution 55/76. The significance of this day is to highlight the situation refugees across the world are facing and urge the global community to stand in solidarity with them. To mark this day,...
Posted on June 13, 2019
Botswana’s High Court has ruled that private consensual sex between adults of the same sex is no longer criminal. The decision gives hope to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in African countries that still have similar laws in place.
Posted on June 12, 2019
The Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) Unit of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, is recruiting for the position of Student Project Associate for a six month contract beginning on 1 July 2019 and ending on 31 December 2019, renewable...
Posted on June 12, 2019
The High Court of Botswana has, in a landmark ruling and a unanimous decision by the bench declared Section 164 and 165 of the Botswana Penal Code that previously criminalised same-sex sexual acts, as unconstitutional. Botswana joins Angola, Mozambique, Seychelles and South Africa as members of...
Posted on June 11, 2019
The Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, invite you to a Brown Bag Seminar and Photo Exhibition on International Albinism Awareness Day (13 June). The theme for International Albinism Awareness Day 2019 is...
Posted on June 06, 2019
The Centre for Human Rights (the Centre), University of Pretoria, calls on the South African government to enhance the protection for older persons; and to ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa (Protocol on Older...
Posted on June 05, 2019
Prof. Jean d’Aspremont, who holds the Chair for Public International Law at the University of Manchester (UK) and Sciences Po School of Law (France), will lead a one-day writing school on 6 June 2019.
Posted on June 05, 2019
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Gertrude Quan, a doctoral candidate affiliated with the Department of Private Law and the SARChI Professorship in International Constitutional Law, has been awarded an internship at Child Rights Connect.
Copyright © University of Pretoria 2025. All rights reserved.
Virtual Campus
Get Social With Us
Download the UP Mobile App