29th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition
Virtual University of Senegal and the
University Cheikh Anta Diop
Dakar, Senegal
3 - 8 August 2020
Preparation for the 2020 African Human Rights Moot Court Competition was launched formally when the Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and the Rectors of the Virtual University of Senegal and the University Cheikh Anta Diop, on 18 October 2019 signed the Memorandum of Agreement in Dakar, Senegal.
The competition was officially launched on 6 December 2019, when the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Tawana Kupe, signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the three partner universities.
The 29th edition of the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition will take place from 3 to 8 August 2020, in Dakar, Senegal. See the address delivered on the occasion by the Director of the Centre for Human Rights, Frans Viljoen.
African Human Rights Moot Court Competition: 2019
28th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition
University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana
1 - 6 July 2019
The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition was held, for the first time, in Botswana.
Botswana, a landlocked country in Southern Africa, has a landscape defined by the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango Delta. Botswana is well known for having some of the best wilderness and wildlife areas on the African continent. Botswana has had one of the fastest growth rates in per capita income in the world and has transformed itself from one of the poorest countries in the world to an upper-middle-income country.
Botswana is also known for its political stability, stable democracy and one of the best-perceived corruption ranking in Africa.
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About the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition
The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the largest gathering of students, academics and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa. This annual event brings together all law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Competition continuously prepares new generations of lawyers to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before the African Court.
Since its creation in 1992, 150 universities from 50 African countries have taken part in this permanent fixture on the Africa legal education calendar. The Moot has been a catalyst for the establishment of the leading programmes in the field of human rights teaching and research in Africa. In 2018, the 27th edition of the Moot Court Competition was hosted at the University of Ghana, Legon. The event brought together 51 teams from 20 African countries.
In 2019, the Moot Competition will be hosted by the University of Botswana. The Hypothetical case will tackle issues relating to refugees, statelessness, children’s rights, sexual minority rights and freedom of expression.
“AFRICA: FROM HUMAN WRONGS TO HUMAN RIGHTS”
