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!
Posted on August 06, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria announces with great pleasure and pride that its 2018 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition team, who ranked fifth in the world at this competition, also won the Richard R Baxter Award for Best Overall Respondent Memorial. This...
Posted on August 06, 2018
In the Africa edition of The Conversation on 1 August 2018, SARChI Professor of International Law and African Economic Relations, Professor Danny Bradlow, in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, provides his views on the recently 2018 10th BRICS Summit hosted by South Africa: 'The...
Posted on July 28, 2018
The Centre for Human Rights - University of Pretoria (CHR), the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA), and the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) have sued the United Republic of Tanzania before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights for its failure to...
Posted on July 26, 2018
The Centre for Child Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is, together with UNICEF HQ, hosting a UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty - Consultation on Children in Institutions in Pretoria from 26 to 27 July 2018. The main purpose of this event is international...
Posted on July 26, 2018
In celebration of National Women’s Day in South Africa, the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the Department of Library Services, cordially invites you to the screening of the award winning documentary ‘The Witches of Gambaga’ by Yaba Badoe.
Posted on July 25, 2018
Civil society organizations in South Africa comprised of a broad collective of human rights and women’s rights organizations and Trade Unions add their voice to the call for immediate and decisive action towards ending violence against women in South Africa.
Posted on July 24, 2018
On Friday 20 July 2018, students from the 14th Cohort of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) (Civic Leadership Track) visited the Centre for Human Rights to learn more about the Centre’s work.
Posted on July 20, 2018
You have classes to attend, university fees to be paid, textbooks to be bought, assignments to be printed, and all of this on an empty stomach. You are running low on cash and it is that time of the month. What to do? Unfortunately you forgot to carry a backup, or generally you do not even...
Posted on July 20, 2018
Corlia van Heerden, Professor in Mercantile Law and incumbent of the Barclays Africa Chair in Banking Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria comments on the The Financial Sector Regulation Act 9 of 2017 which has been put into incremental operation since 1 April...
Posted on July 12, 2018
The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce and congratulate its Centre for Child Law's senior attorney, Anjuli Maistry, and lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence's, Dr Joel Modiri, for being featured on the prestigious 'Mail&Guardian's 200 Young South Africans...
Posted on July 11, 2018
GENEVA (26 June 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea expressed concern that patterns of violations identified over the past six years persist, namely arbitrary and incommunicado detention, indefinite military/national service amounting to forced...
Posted on July 11, 2018
“Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits...
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