Posted on April 26, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that a staff member in our Department of Mercantile Law, Professor Maleka Femida Cassim, has recently published a scholarly book in the Field of Company Law, titled 'The New Derivative Action under the Companies Act -...
Posted on April 26, 2016
The LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) is the flagship Masters Programme at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Since 2000, the programme has trained some of the best minds in Africa who have gone on to create change in different parts of the world.
Posted on April 26, 2016
Ashwanee Budoo from the Gender Unit at the Centre for Human Rights spoke to SABC Morning Live (video below) on the the naked protest staged at Rhodes University, where female students caused quite a stir last week when they protested against sexual violence half-naked.
Posted on April 25, 2016
The University of Pretoria joined the Scholars at Risk (SAR) network last year. SAR is an international network of over 250 academic institutions in 30 countries organized to support and defend the principles of academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars around the world.
Posted on April 22, 2016
This week the Department of Social Development brought home a three-year-old boy who had been living in a Mozambican prison with his mother, who was convicted of drug trafficking.
Posted on April 21, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria have expressed their alarm and sadness at recent events in The Gambia, in particular the death in detention of opposition politicians and the detention of peaceful protesters, in violation of their rights to life, fair trial, association...
Posted on April 21, 2016
On Friday, 16 April 2016, the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, was host to an international Judicial Workshop on Environmental Rights to provide practical and theoretical grounding in the implementation of environmental rights and serve as the springboard for the...
Posted on April 20, 2016
On Thursday, 14 April 2016, a doctorate in law was awarded to Yvonne Jooste, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. The title of her doctoral thesis is "The subaltern can speak': Reflections on voice through the lens of the...
Posted on April 18, 2016
At the Autumn Graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria on Thursday, 15 April 2016, 408 law degrees were conferred upon 307 LLB, 90 LLM and 11 LLD/DPhil graduates. 52 LLB students and 12 Master's students obtained degrees with distinction.
Posted on April 18, 2016
On Wednesday, 13 April 2016, the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria honoured its top performers for their academic tenacity during the 2015 academic year, with Advocate Thuli Madonsela as the keynote speaker of the event.
Posted on April 15, 2016
The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria is proud to announce the appointment of one of its extraordinary professors in the Department of Procedural Law, Danie van Loggerenberg, as the Marcel Storme Chair at Gent University in Belgium for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Posted on April 08, 2016
Statement of the Centre for Human Rights (University of Pretoria) 58th ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul, The Gambia, 7 April 2016
Posted on April 07, 2016
5 April 2016 - Today, the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) at the University of Pretoria and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) are pleased to jointly release the “Shadow” National Baseline Assessment (NBA) of Current Implementation of Business and Human Rights...
Posted on April 07, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a public lecture on 'Academic freedom in Africa under attack: A tribute to Professor Cistac'. Speaker: Dr Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua Member, Ghana Bar and Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of...
Posted on April 06, 2016
According to Eduardo Kapapelo, a DPhil student at the Centre for Human Rights at UP, the bleak shadow of terrorism on human rights accross the globe cannot be ignored.
Posted on March 29, 2016
Four academics associated with the Centre for Human Rights contributed to the third volume in the Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy series which contains a collection of eleven essays on South Africa’s foreign human rights policy. (Contributors: Prof Magnus Killander, Dr Dan Kuwali,...
Posted on March 29, 2016
Human rights have taken another knock this past week. On 16 March 2016, Nigeria’s Senate rejected the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill, aimed at eliminating “all forms of discrimination” against women. The Bill was set to promote women’s equality in marriage, inheritance...
Posted on March 24, 2016
On Tuesday night (22 March 2016) in Mbizana, Eastern Cape, unknown attackers impersonating police officers assassinated the activist and chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee at his home, in front of his young child. Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe from Mdatya village in Amadiba died on the...
Posted on March 24, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights (CHR), University of Pretoria (UP), hosted the Disability Rights in an African Context advanced short course from 14 - 18 March 2016.
Posted on March 23, 2016
The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria recently hosted a forum in honour of its Founding Director, Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, titled 'Realising human rights in life and law: Reflections on the Constitutional Court term of Justice Johann van der Westhuizen'.
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