COVID-19: Public Lecture postponed

As South Africa faces the locally expanding coronavirus epidemic, the University of Pretoria’s (UP) executive management team has decided to postpone contact classes and to reschedule the academic calendar.

Therefore, the public lecturey, scheduled for 24 March 2020, is postponed. Details regarding the rescheduling of the lecture will be communicated via the Centre's website and social media channels in due course.

We urge our students, staff, friends and colleagues to stay safe as we collectively turn the tide against this pandemic.

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, invites you to a public discussion on the African Union theme of “Silencing the Guns in Africa by 2020”. 

The African Union Commission Heads of States Assembly has marked the year 2020 with the theme “Silencing the Guns in Africa by 2020” which aims to achieve a conflict-free Africa, prevent genocide, make peace a reality for all and rid the continent of wars, violent conflicts, gender-based violence, human rights violations, and humanitarian disasters. 

The public lecture will focus on ensuring women’s rights as a means to silencing the guns in Africa. The discussion is aimed at addressing the root causes of inequality and conflict-related gender-based violence and strengthening of the rights of women and girls as part of a robust action for the realisation of a peaceful and prosperous Africa. 

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2020 
Time: 14:00 – 16:30, followed by a cocktail 
Venue: Auditorium, Plant Sciences Complex, University of Pretoria Main (Hatfield) Campus

Enquiries: annie.bipendu@up.ac.za 

Speakers 

• Justice Lucy Asaugbor 
  Special Rapporteur on the rights of women in Africa 
  Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights 
  
  
• Meskerem Geset Techane 
  Chair-Rapporteur 
  United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls 

The public lecture will take place on the sidelines of the Advanced Human Rights Course on Women’s Rights in Africa. The course examines the international and regional human rights frameworks that guarantee the human rights of women and girls in Africa, with a particular focus on the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol). 

For more information on the short course visit www.chr.up.ac.za/ahrc