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Vacancy: Researcher

The Centre is seeking a research consultant with the expertise to conduct a study on the role of the media in fomenting and countering xenophobia in South Africa

Webinar

Domestic Human Rights Impact of UN Human Rights Treaty System

Africa Rights Talk

This episode speaks on the evolution and enforcement of anti-gay laws in Nigeria.

#AfricanMoot2022 Results

British University in Egypt hosts the 31st Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

14th Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition concludes in Geneva

Towards legally binding instruments - Lessons learnt from the pandemic

Reception of the President of the PAP, the Bureau, and the Chief Executive Officer of AUDA NEPAD

Barriers to equal access to justice for people with disabilities in RSA, Botswana and Zambia

Research Units

Over view of our Units

The Centre for Human Rights hosts a number of Research Units whose main objectives are to do research in their prospective fields.

Most Units have a short course, a clinical group and a resource database linked to the Unit. Focus areas include freedom of expression and access to information, business and human rights, children's rights, disability rights, women's rights, litigation, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics and Freedom from Violence.

Units

Business and Human Rights Unit

Children's Rights Unit

Democracy and Civic Engagement Unit

Disability Rights Unit

Expression, Information and Digital Rights Unit

Freedom from Violence Unit

International Development Law Unit

Litigation and Implementation Unit

SOGIESC Unit

Women's Rights Unit

Academic Programmes

HRDA

LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa

The LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa is a prestigious one-year intensive course where 25-30 exceptional individuals spend 6 months in Pretoria and 6 months at one of the 13 partner universities all over Africa.

DRIA

LLM/MPhil (Disability Rights in Africa)

The two-year programme is offered as a hybrid teaching approach comprising online interaction and residential face-to-face weeks in Pretoria. Two face-to-face sessions will be scheduled every year. The first face-to-face session is in December 2018.

MHR

LLM/MPhil (Multidisciplinary Human Rights)

The LLM/MPhil degree in Multidisciplinary Human Rights gives students from various disciplines the opportunity to engage with human rights issues from a number of perspectives. This programme is for lawyers and non-lawyers.

SRRA

LLM/MPhil (Sexual & Reproductive Rights in Africa)

The Master's degree (LLM/MPhil) in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa is a two-year programme that is offered as a blended learning course comprising of online interaction and residential block-weeks in Pretoria.

TILA

LLM (International Trade and Investment Law in Africa)

The LLM degree in International Trade and Investment Law in Africa is a higher education and training programme based in, and focused on, Africa with full exposure to the international world of trade and investment.

Education Projects

The Centre presents annually a number of short courses, two moot court competitions and a conference:

AHRC

Advanced Human Rights Courses

The Advanced Human Rights Courses (AHRC) programme consists of annual advanced short courses dealing with issues pertinent to human rights, development and good governance in Africa.

CHAHRMCC

Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

The annual African Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the largest gathering of students, academics and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa.

NMWMCC

Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition

The Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition is an annual event and is open to both undergraduate and master's degree law students.

Conferences

Annual Conference

The Disability Rights Unit at Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, hosts an annual conference on disability rights in an African context during the first week of November.

Latest Press Statements

Centre for Human Rights condemns disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice

26 June 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, condemns the disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice Bheki Maphalala.

Press Statement (26 June 2022)

Centre for Human Rights Calls on African states to speed up ratification of the African Disability Protocol

8 March 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes the recently improved pace of ratification of the 2018 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (African Disability Protocol).

Press Statement (8 March 2022)

Centre calls for a robust response from the Government of South Africa to prevent xenophobic violence

2 February 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is concerned about the growing anti-immigrant sentiments and attacks fuelled by the recent xenophobic statements of political parties.

Press Statement (2 February 2022)

Centre condemns arbitrary detention and deportation of Corlett Letlojane by Cameroon authorities

22 December 2021

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, is concerned and condemns the arbitrary detention and deportation of Corlett Letlojane by Cameroon authorities on 16 December

Press Statement (22 December 2022)

In depth study and action to prevent death at initiation

20 December 2021

Centre calls for in-depth study and action to prevent deaths arising from customary initiation practices

Press Statement (20 December 2022)

Nelson Mandela World Moot Competition, 20 May to 21 July 2022

17 December 2021

In the past years the University of Pretoria in South Africa has not participated in the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition in light of the fact that the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) is located at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria.

Press Statement (17 December 2022)

Centre for Human Rights condemns disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice Press Statement (26 June 2022)
Centre for Human Rights Calls on African states to speed up ratification of the African Disability Protocol Press Statement (8 March 2022)
Centre calls for a robust response from the Government of South Africa to prevent xenophobic violence Press Statement (2 February 2022)
Centre condemns arbitrary detention and deportation of Corlett Letlojane by Cameroon authorities Press Statement (22 December 2022)
In depth study and action to prevent death at initiation Press Statement (20 December 2022)
Nelson Mandela World Moot Competition, 20 May to 21 July 2022 Press Statement (17 December 2022)

Associated Institutes / Units

IDLU

International Development Law Unit

The International Development Law Unit (IDLU) presents the LLM (International Trade and Investment Law in Africa) and its mission is to conduct and promote policy-oriented legal research on international development law topics.

ICLA

Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa

The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) aims to become a first port of call for those who wish to engage in legal research and legal reform in Africa involving comparative or international law at the advanced level.

AHRLJ

African Human Rights Law Journal

ADRY

African Disability Rights Yearbook

Awards & Prizes

UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education

In 2006, the Centre for Human Rights was awarded the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education, with particular recognition for the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition and the LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa

2006

UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education

African Union Human Rights Prize

In 2012, the Centre for Human Rights was awarded the 2012 African Union Human Rights Prize, in recognition of the Centre's contribution to the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa.

2012

African Union Human Rights Prize

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