Posted on September 07, 2018
For the last 22 years, on the first Friday of every September, South Africans from all works of life have celebrated Casual Day. Casual Day is a leading fundraising and awareness campaign for persons with disabilities and a flagship project of the National Council of and for Persons with...
Posted on September 06, 2018
In a media release dated 6 September 2018, the Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria asks the Supreme Court of Appeal to protect the identities of child victims, witnesses and offenders.
Posted on September 05, 2018
The Centre welcomes the promotional visit by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Right (African Commission) to South Africa.
Posted on August 29, 2018
The Faculties of Humanities and Theology and Religion hosted the Johan Heyns Memorial lecture, presented by Dr Allan Boesak, renowned public intellectual, who spoke on , ‘Rebels at the lectern and on the pulpit: Hegemony, harmony, and the critical dimensions of theological integrity’.
Posted on August 28, 2018
Centre for Human Rights, HelpAge, South African Older Person's Forum (SAOPF) & the of Student Affairs
Posted on August 23, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that Professor Corlia van Heerden has been appointed as the South African Research Chair of the IVZW Tidjschrift voor Privaatrecht for the period 2018/19 at Gent University.
Posted on August 23, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that its African Human Rights Moot Court Competition team again outranked and outmooted other teams at the recent Competition held in Ghana. The UP Moot Society Team, consisting of Motlotleng Sebola, Nicholas Herd and...
Posted on August 23, 2018
What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities is a monograph that aims...
Posted on August 22, 2018
Prof. Erika de Wet, SARChI Professor of International Constitutional Law, has been awarded a prestigious German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship
Posted on August 21, 2018
This publication commemorates 18 years of the Master’s programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA).
Posted on August 17, 2018
From 17 to 18 August 2018, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is holding its 38th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government in Namibia. The Summit is expected to address some of the critical challenges affecting the region including the need to address poverty, promote...
Posted on August 15, 2018
Jenira Ferreira Wins Faces African Student Cellphone Film Competition
Posted on August 15, 2018
The Centre of Human Rights in collaboration with the PAP, held a CSO'S Forum
Posted on August 13, 2018
On Tuesday 7 August 2018, in commemoration of South Africa’s National Women’s Day and as part of the Centre for Human Rights (the Centre’s) year-long campaign on the rights of older women in Africa, the Women’s Rights unit in collaboration with the Department of Library...
Posted on August 13, 2018
Rani Pillay, a SARChI doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, whose specialisation is in Child Law, Bioethics and Medical Law, was interviewed by the Sunday Times on 12 August 2018. Her press commentary was on domestic and foreign legal positions relating to the...
Posted on August 09, 2018
The meeting focused on the collective deliberation on issues that affect older women in the region and to come up with strategies needed to push respective states to pay attention to the specific vulnerabilities of older women.
Posted on August 08, 2018
On 9 August 2018, South Africa celebrated National Women’s Day. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration...
Posted on August 08, 2018
Woman have historically played an important role in the promotion of children’s rights, worldwide. In the United States of America, it two women, Lucy Flowers and Julia Lathrop, drafted the first separate law that recognised that child offenders should be treated differently from adults....
Posted on August 07, 2018
It is with great pride that the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria announces that one of its extraordinary lecturers in the Department of Mercantile Law and a specialist in International Trade Law issues, Dr Gustav Brink, has been elected as a Who's Who Legal's (WWL) ‘Thought...
Posted on August 07, 2018
27th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition started on an illustrious note!
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