Posted on April 11, 2017
“The [Maputo] Protocol stands as a comprehensive instrument that demonstrates the good will of African States to end all forms of violence against women... Notwithstanding that, our role as women has been fraught with challenges and circumstances of vulnerability”.
Posted on April 07, 2017
More than 13 000 students will receive their degrees at the University of Pretoria's 2017 Autumn Graduation Ceremonies.
Posted on April 04, 2017
Whatever her intentions, the recent public utterance posted on Twitter by Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille, reminding the nation of the enormous debt owed to colonialism, has generated public debate. In not so many words, in a nation still healing from a racially bruised past, Zille has been...
Posted on April 04, 2017
“It is not about power, it is about purpose.” In his Keynote Address at the Second Oliver Tambo Centenary Lecture, Justice Dikgang Moseneke pre-empted Oliver Tambo’s response to the current leadership challenges that the African continent is facing.
Posted on April 04, 2017
Dr Anastacia Tomson, medical doctor, author and transgender rights activist, weighs in on International Transgender Day of Visbility and states that 'visbility is no longer enough'
Posted on April 04, 2017
Sheila B. Keetharuth wins Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award for human rights work in Africa
Posted on March 31, 2017
Prof Charles Ngwena from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, writes about what colonialism really means to us as South Africans in light of the recent public utterance posted on twitter by Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille.
Posted on March 28, 2017
On 14 and 15 March 2017, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the Centre for Human Rights, Eduardo Mondlane University in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa (Special Rapporteur), Commissioner Pansy Tlakula,...
Posted on March 24, 2017
Reflections by a participant of the Disability Rights in an African Context short course hosted by the Centre for Human Rights from the 13-17 March 2017
Posted on March 23, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, together with the Oliver & Adelaide Tambo Foundation cordially invites you the Centre for Human Rights Master's Programmes Welcoming Ceremony and Oliver Tambo Centenary Lecture Series. The second edition of this series of...
Posted on March 22, 2017
The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa are organising a conference on the theme, “The rule of law in Sub-Saharan Africa:...
Posted on March 17, 2017
On March 21 1960, the residents of Sharpeville took to the streets in protest of the oppressive laws the Apartheid government imposed on black people. In terms of these laws black people had to carry passes in order to move around the country.
Posted on March 15, 2017
World Consumer Rights Day is an opportune time to consider the extent to which SA consumers are afforded redress in respect of defective, hazardous or unsafe goods. Profs Corlia van Heerden and Jacolien Barnard from UP explain.
Posted on March 13, 2017
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that the 'Laws of South Africa: Consolidated Legislation' has been selected by the United States Library of Congress for inclusion in their historic collection of internet materials related to the Laws of African Jurisdictions...
Posted on March 10, 2017
The Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria hosted a launch of its LLM and MPhil programmes in Environmental Law, coordinated by Ms Melanie Murcott, senior lecturer, environmental and administrative law in February 2017.
Posted on March 09, 2017
The Global Campus of Human Rights is proud to announce the launch of the Global Campus Human Rights Journal (GCHRJ) , a peer-reviewed online publication serving as a forum for rigorous scholarly analysis, critical commentaries, and reports on recent developments pertaining to human rights and...
Posted on March 08, 2017
Students from all countries in Africa are invited to participate in the FACES 2017: African student cellphone film competition. The Competition is part of the 26th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, due to be held in Mauritius from 18 - 23 September 2017. The winning entries will be...
Posted on March 08, 2017
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is deeply concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon (English-speaking Cameroon), including reported arbitrary arrests, abductions, extra-judicial killings,...
Posted on March 07, 2017
The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that our TuksLaw team beat the team from the University of the Witwatersrand in the final round of the South African leg of the 58th Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.
Posted on March 07, 2017
The Eduardo Mondlane University is one of several leading African Universities that partner with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, in the execution of the Disability Rights Law Schools Project sponsored by the Open Society Foundation.
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