Public seminar: Do we need a new AI Bill of human rights? A regional perspective

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, together with the Accelerator Fellowship Programme of the Institute for Ethics in AI (University of Oxford) and the Global Center on AI Governance, invites you to a timely public seminar on the intersection of artificial intelligence and human rights.

This seminar will examine:

✅Whether existing international human rights treaties are equipped to handle the rise of AI

✅The case for new “AI human rights”

✅The role of African regional institutions in shaping global norms

Featured panellists:

▪️ Professor Yuval Shany – Accelerator Fellow, Institute of Ethics in AI, University of Oxford of Oxford

▪️ Professor Jake Okechukwu Effoduh- Assistant Professor of Technology Law & AI, Lincoln Alexander School of Law

Moderator: Dr Fola Adeleke, Executive Director, Global Center on AI Governance

Event details:

🗓️ 15 July 2025

🕔 5:00–6:30 PM SAST

📌 SRC Chambers, UP Conference Centre, Hatfield Campus – University of Pretoria