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The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and Ghent University, Belgium, hosted their annual advanced human rights course on the African human rights system in comparative perspective, with 40 in person participants and 30 online participants. Participants were drawn from a variety of sectors including legal practitioners, human rights advocates, civil servants and academics and included students on the Centre’s master’s programme in human rights and democratisation in Africa. Participants came from 19 African and two European countries.

The course introduced the institutional framework of the African Union and discussed the legal framework for the protection of human rights, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child as well as the institutional framework for human rights protection, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child. Lectures also covered sub-regional protection of human rights in Africa with a focus on the East African Community and the Economic Community of West African States. The human rights systems of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organization of American States were also discussed. The course concluded with a panel discussion on best practices in regional protection of human rights. Course presenters were members of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria as well as Prof Yves Haeck and Prof Clara Burbano-Herrera from Ghent University.


The course was a success and we continue to thank our partners and the Government of Flanders for their financial support.

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