On the 22 November 2025, the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria held a workshop in Maseru, Kingdom of Lesotho. This workshop, the fourth of its kind following previous workshops in Zambia, Malawi and Kenya, focused on “Promoting Child Participation in Development Frameworks in Africa” and establishing a Child Leadership Teams in Lesotho which will form part of the African base of the Global Campus for Human Rights, Child Leadership Team (GC-CLT).
On 19 - 20 November 2025, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (the Centre) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) hosted a workshop for strengthening the technical capacity of CSOs/NGOs and Individual lawyers to litigate violations of children’s rights before African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC). The workshop brought together civil society organisations and lawyers from four of the African regions.
The Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with the Centre for Child Law both at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape as well as the Université de Namur hosted the annual Advanced Human Rights Course on Children’s Rights in Africa from 23 to 27 June 2025. The course was also supported by the Global Campus of Human Rights.
By Belinda Matore, an LLD candidate and project officer at the Centre for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria
Images of children participating in sport are widespread across social media, club websites, newsletters and broadcasts. While such images celebrate achievement and community, they also expose minors to risks such as exploitation, cyberbullying, identity theft and digital permanence. In South Africa, legal protection for children’s images arises from the Constitution, common law personality rights and the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA). Yet these frameworks only partially address how children’s images intersect with safeguarding in digital environments.
The applications to undertake the individual consultancy and develop the General Comment on Article 28 should be submitted by email to the Secretariat of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child via ACERWC-SECRETARIAT@AfricanUnion.org with a copy to SenaitY@africanunion.org. The deadline for submission is 04 July 2025 at 23:00 South African Standard Time.
