Featured Research: Justice & Society

Lecture

'Human rights in a time of homophobia: An argument for equal legal protection of "sexual minorities" in Africa'

Over the last decade or so, international acceptance of 'sexual minorities' has increased significantly, reflected in the consensus that a person's sexual orientation or gender identity should not be a basis for denying him or her the equal protection of the law. In most of the African continent, a conflicting trend of formally stigmatising homosexuality has manifested itself, leading to the...

Lecture

‘Universal human rights - asking for too much?’

Human rights, as a set of norms that is applicable to everyone, everywhere, has been described as 'the idea of our time'. Prof Christof Heyns, poses the question of whether the current rapid proliferation of human rights systems especially at a regional level is fostering or hampering the universal human rights project. The lecture places the above discussion in the broader context of whether -...