Posted on July 28, 2015
In pursuit of the ideals of excellence and diversity, the University of Pretoria wishes to invite applications for these three vacancies. The University of Pretoria's commitment to quality makes us one of the top research Universities in the country and gives us a competitive advantage in...
Posted on July 24, 2015
In celebration of Mandela Day, staff and students from the Faculty of Law made monetary donations to Project Khanya to change the world for the better.
Posted on July 22, 2015
Ann Skelton, Director of the Centre for Child Law, argued the case brought by the Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights on behalf of eight separated asylum seeker children from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Posted on July 22, 2015
On 25 June 2015 the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria hosted a high-profile debate between Professor Dire Tladi, Professor of international Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and member of the United Nations...
Posted on July 21, 2015
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum (APCOF) presented the 2015 edition of the advanced short course on ‘Police Oversight and Accountability.’
Posted on July 14, 2015
A new law protecting adolescents from being arrested and tried for consensual sexual activity was signed by President Jacob Zuma on 3 July 2015.
Posted on July 01, 2015
The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria welcomes the Swaziland Supreme Court’s order to immediately release human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and magazine editor Bheki Makhubu.
Posted on June 30, 2015
The Centre for Human Rights is pleased to announce the recent election of two alumni of its LLM/MPhil programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa to two institutions of the African Union (AU).
Posted on June 26, 2015
Eritrea has been high on the agenda of the United Nations Human Rights Council during its 29th Session, which is currently on-going in Geneva, Switzerland, with the release of two important reports, namely those of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and the report...
Posted on June 24, 2015
A venture that started in the Oliver R Tambo Law Library at the University of Pretoria to provide free online access to up-to-date versions of South African national legislation, has proved to be an overwhelming success.
Posted on June 24, 2015
The disappointment at South Africa’s failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to face genocide charges at the International Criminal Court is a sad reflection on the court’s poor record in living up to its lofty ideals. But, the world has seen it all before.
Posted on June 18, 2015
The Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria invites papers for a conference on disability rights in Africa.
Posted on June 18, 2015
The brevity of President Bashir’s visit to South Africa is disproportionate to its consequences.
Posted on June 08, 2015
Two TuksLaw lecturers successfully completed the world's biggest and oldest ultra-marathon on Sunday, 31 May 2015. Novice Prof Bernard Bekink (together with his spouse, Mildred Bekink) of the Department of Public Law and Prof Johan Lötz of the Department of Mercantile Law at the University of...
Posted on May 27, 2015
On the occasion of Africa Day 2015, the Centre for Human Rghts (CHR) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, is proud to announce the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nigeria.
Posted on May 27, 2015
Around the continent, Africans today celebrate “Africa Day”.
Posted on May 25, 2015
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria hosted its annual open days for its 2016 undergraduate and postgraduate academic programmes on 9 and 23 May 2015 respectively.
Posted on May 18, 2015
Violence against women is endemic in South Africa: a woman is killed by an intimate partner every eight hours, South Africa is regularly listed as having the highest rate of rape in the world and survivors of sexual violence receive inadequate and inconsistent treatment.
Posted on May 18, 2015
During the past month, the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria made contributions to two very deserving charities.
Posted on May 05, 2015
Students of the 2015 LLM/MPhil (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) class speak out about the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
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