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The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (Centre) held the second Christof Heyns Memorial Lecture on 4 July 2024. Professor Christoffel Hendrik (Christof) Heyns, who passed away suddenly in March 2021, was an internationally renowned human rights lawyer, legal educator and activist. He was one of the founders and previous director of the Centre. He also initiated the Master’s programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA), under whose auspices the event was organized.
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On Friday 28 July 2023, the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, at the University of Pretoria (Centre), held its inaugural Christof Heyns Human Rights Memorial Lecture, at the Aula, University of Pretoria. The event was attended by about 150 participants in person, including Christof’s wife Fearika, and two daughters, Willemien and Renée, and around 50 participants online. The three panellists presenting the Lecture emphasised that the history and future of human rights remain based on struggle, and that the strategy against the current push back against human rights should be grounded in greater solidarity and more nuanced and sophisticated articulation of human rights language.
