The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, takes pleasure in inviting you to our COVID-19 Discussion Fora. These discussions deal with the potential and actual impact on human rights and democratisation of COVID-19 in Africa. This Discussion Forum is part of a series of events at which the panelists are alumni of the academic programmes of the Centre. While these Fora had initially been targeting only the Centre’s staff and alumni, they are now public. The panelists of Forum11 are all alumni of the Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation Africa (HRDA).

COVID-19 Discussion Forum 11

Thursday 25 June 2020
Webinar (Zoom)
09:00 GMT  /  10:00 WAT  /  11:00 SAST  /  12:00 EAT

Theme: The impact of technologies on human rights during the COVID-19

Chair: Tomiwa Ilori (HRDA 2018)
Doctoral Student and Researcher, Expression, Information and Digital Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria

Panelists:

• Dr Ololade Shyllon (HRDA 2007)
  Privacy Policy Manager, Middle East and Africa, Facebook
  The role of private sector in human rights protection during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
• Marystella Simiyu (HRDA 2018)
  Doctoral Student and Project Officer, Expression, information and Digital Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
  The role of technologies on democratisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
• Dr Thompson Chengeta (HRDA 2011)
  Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford
  A want or a need: rethinking internet access as a right during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa

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