2012 Press Releases

• ECOWAS Court to rule on preliminary objection in Senegal election case
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  14 May 2012  
    
• Centre for Human Rights submits complaint against Angola to the African Commission, requesting for Provisional Measures to protect David Mendes
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  23 April 2012 
   
• ECOWAS Court adjourns Senegal case for hearing on 4 May 2012
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  11 April 2012

• Centre congratulates Prof John Dugard on Presidential recognition of his contributions to law and human rights in South Africa
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  4 April 2012

• Centre calls on ECOWAS Court to suspend 26 February 2012 Presidential Election and to end human rights violations in Senegal
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  21 February 2012

2011 Press Releases

• Government must promote the supremacy of the Constitution and the independence of the Judiciary
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  1 December 2011 
• Centre presents first course on rights of indigenous people in Africa
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  14 September 2011
• Centre expresses surprise at nomination of Justice Mogoeng as Chief Justice
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  17 August 2011 

• International Court of Justice and African Commission Judges Head to South Africa to address African human rights challenges
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  6 July 2011

• Pretoria Civil Society consultation on UN human rights treaty reform hosted by the Centre for Human Rights
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  20 June 2011
   
• Centre for Human Rights welcomes LLM (Human Rights & Democratisation in Africa) Class of 2011
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  2 February 2011
   
• Ugandan Government Must Act To Change Homophobic Culture In Light Of Gay Rights Activist’s Killing
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  Click here to download the Uganda High Court Ruling on Injunction of Rolling Stone
  1 February 2011

2010 Press Releases

• Why the Commission’s refusal of CAL’s application for observer status must be reconsidered: Statement to the 48^th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, November 2010, Banjul, The Gambia
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  22 November 2010
   
• 19th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, Cotonou, Benin
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  13 October2010
  
  
• 19th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition: Young African Lawyers participate in a mock trail in preparation for possible future appearances before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
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  22 September 2010
  
  
• Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria offers training on poilcing and law in Somalia
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  21 September 2010
  
  
• Centre’s LLM alumnus elected by the African Union to continental children’s rights body 
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  28 July 2010

• South African leaders must denounce growing rumours of looming xenophobic attacks
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  7 July 2010

• United Nations Human Rights Council appoints Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, as Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
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  23 June 2010

• Extraordinary Professor John Dugard is co-recipient of the Gruber Foundation International Justice Prize
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  16 June 2010

• Centre for Human Rights expresses dismay at naming of UNESCO Prize after corrupt dictatator
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  Click here to read more about Equatorial Guinea and its dismal human rights record and corrupt state
  14 June 2010

• Reaction to the Presidential pardon of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in Malawi and the arrest, detention and inhuman treatment of Ellen Chadema and Ignatius Muhamba in Zimbabwe
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  1 June 2010

• The conviction of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga should be overturned and the applicable law repealed
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  25 May 2010

2009 Press Releases

• UN Special Rapporteur on Torture’s cancelled visit to Zimbabwe, widespread violence and arbitrary arrests
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  7 November 2010

• Ugandan Anti Homosexuality Bill should not be adopted
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  Click here to download Bill No 18 - Anti Homosexuality Bill
  22 October 2009

• The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights grants ALTERNATIVES-CAMEROUN, a Cameroonian sexual minority rights NGO, observer status 
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  6 June 2009

• Centre For Human Rights Calls For Release Of Swazi Human Rights Lawyer
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  5 June 2009

• Interim statement by the Centre for Human Rights on Malawi presidential and parliamentary elections held on 19 May 2009
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  20 May 2009

• Communiqué concernant les arrestations arbitraires des défenseurs des droits de l’homme
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  27 March 2009

• Centre for Human Rights supports statement by Minister of Health
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  26 March 2009

• The Centre for Human Rights celebarates Human Rights Day
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  21 March 2009

• Alumna of Centre for Human Rights and other human rights defender unlawfully detained in Zimbabwe
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  13 February 2009

2008 Press Releases

• SADC Summit should follow SADC Tribunal’s lead on Zimbabwe
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  Download the full citation of the case Mike Campbell and Others v Zimbabwe
  Download the Tribunal Interim Ruling of December 2007
  Download the SADC Treaty
  Download the SADC Tribunal Protocol
  3 December 2008

• Immediate release from detention of Sudanese human rights activists held in Khartoum
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  27 November 2008

• Xenophobia institutionalised by Alexander Prezanti
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  7 November 2008

• Churches also subject to values of Constitution by Prof Frans Viljoen (Pretoria News)
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  26 August 2008

• Centre for Human Rights congratulates Justice Navi Pillay
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  22 July 2008

• Civil Society Statement On Hiv-Related Legislation In Southern Africa
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  14 July 2008

• Declaration on Zimbabwean Presidential Election (Englis, Francais, Português)
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  1 July 2008

• Opening Ceremony of the 17th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition and the Declaration on Zimbabwean Presidential Election
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  1 July 2008

• Book on Human Rights in Africa launched
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  1 July 2008

• Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) Coalition Statement on Zimbabwe
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  16 June 2008

• SADC election observers should go to Zimbabwe immediately
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  10 June 2008

• “With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful country” by Norman Taku
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  2 June 2008

• Xenophobia is a violation of human rights
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  25 May 2008 (Africa Day)