Centre for Human Rights:
Adjustment to Centre activities due to COVID-19
The Centre for Human Rights embraces a blended presentation for its human rights education projects, that is, the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition and the Advanced Human Rights Courses.
Moot Courts
In the short-term, the #AfricanMoot2020 and #WorldMoot2020 preliminary rounds will be presented online, and final rounds in person later in the year.
Short Courses
The Advanced Human Rights Course on Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in Africa will in 2020 be presented online.
Centre for Human Rights:
University of Pretoria, Government of South Africa and WHO information on COVID-19
The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first reported on 31 December 2019 by the World Health Organization country office following a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been confirmed as the causative virus of COVID-19. To date, COVID-19 has become a global pandemic and it is continuing to spread across the globe.
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the resulting restrictions on movement and other aspects of the normal functions of society has resulted in significant disruptions and anxiety over the looming uncertainty. The impact on our regular programmes and functions has been significant. We have therefore had to make efforts to ensure continuity as far as possible and to minimise disruption where possible. While the changes have mostly been reactionary, we recognise their potential to alter our mode of operations, not only in the short term but even the long-term.
