About

Details: Published: 10 July 2018

The Centre for Human Rights hosts two moot court competitions annually: the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition and the Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition. The Centre also established the National Schools Moot Court Competition, which is currently organised by the Department of Basic Education, Government of South Africa.

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Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition

The Christof Heyns 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.

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Nelson Mandela World Human Rights Moot Court Competition

The World Moot is open to undergraduate and masters students from all universities in the world. Teams of two students (gender diversity is encouraged) from every university in the world are invited to submit heads of argument for a hypothetical human rights case. The 50 teams with the highest memorial grades are invited to participate in the preliminary oral rounds and present their arguments to human rights experts and judges of international tribunals at the UN headquarters in Geneva

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National Schools Moot Court Competition

The Competition aims to create greater awareness in schools and communities in South Africa about the Constitution and the values that it embodies through active participation. The aim is also to encourage talented young people to consider pursuing a law career.

Details: Published: 04 July 2018

Ms Lulama Shongwe

BA Law(UP) LLB Candidate(UP)

Student Ambassador
Tel: +27 (0) 12 420 4199
Fax: +27 (0) 86 764 5621
lulama.shongwe@gmail.com

Details: Published: 04 July 2018

LLM (UP)

Project Officer: African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA)

Tel: +27 (0) 12 420 4531
Fax: +27 (0) 86 580 5743
guillain.koko@up.ac.za

Details: Published: 04 July 2018

Dianah Msipa 1

LLB(Newcastle University, UK) LPC(Northumbria University, UK) LLM(McGill University, Canada)
ORCID

Manager: Disability Rights Unit

+27 (0)12 420 6398
dianah.msipa@up.ac.za

Expertise

Disability rights
Access to justice
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Legal capacity
Disability rights in the African human rights system

Publications

Journal articles

‘Albinism as disability: The key to ensuring equal access to justice for the vindication of economic, social and cultural rights by persons with albinism in South Africa?’ (2022) Southern Africa Albinism Socio-Economic Rights Journal (forthcoming)
‘Access to heath care by mothers impacted by albinism in South Africa’ (2022) Southern Africa Albinism Socio-Economic Rights Journal (forthcoming) (with M Buyco et al)
‘Moshoeshoe v DPP: A missed opportunity for persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities in Lesotho?’ (2021) 13 Drexel Law Review 909
Court accommodations for persons with severe communication disabilities: A legal scoping review’ (2021) 27 (3) Psychology, Public Policy and Law 399 (with R White, J Bornman and E Johnson)
‘Implementing article 13 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in South Africa: Accommodations for people with communication disabilities’ (2018) 6 African Disability Rights Yearbook 99. (with R White)
‘The right to work and employment in Southern Africa: A Commentary on how selected employment laws fare against Article 27 of the CRPD’ (2016) 4 African Disability Rights Yearbook 283.
‘How assessments of testimonial competence perpetuate inequality and discrimination for persons with intellectual disabilities: An analysis of the approach taken in South Africa and Zimbabwe’ (2015) 3 African Disability Rights Yearbook 63-90.
‘Global reasonable accommodation: How the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities changes the way we think about equality.’ (2014) 30 South African Journal of Human Rights 252. (with Frédéric Mégret)
‘Getting disability rights into the mainstream of human rights advocacy: An appraisal of Zimbabwean disability rights policies and legislation’ Available on SSRN (with Thompson Chengeta)

Book chapters

‘The African Disability Protocol: Towards a social and human rights approach to disability in the African Human Rights system’ in Handbook of Disability: Critical Thought, Human Rights and Social Change in a Globalizing World (Springer: 2022) forthcoming (with P Juma)
‘Critical review of reforms in the African region’ in N Espejo & M Bach (eds) Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights: Towards a comprehensive approach (2021) (forthcoming)

Book reviews

‘Book review: Oche Onazi: An African path to disability justice: Community, relationships and obligations’ (2020) 8 African Disability Rights Yearbook 264.

Blogs