International

Global Campus International Conference 2021 – Climate Change and Children: Impact, Rights and Participation

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Climate change has been identified by United Nations’ agencies and experts as one of the biggest threats to children’s health. Globally, children are being detrimentally affected by climate shocks (e.g. droughts, floods, cyclones) and related diseases, polluted air, soil and water, exposure to toxic substances. Despite contributing the least to the causes of climate change, children are the worst affected by it, right now and in the future.

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Support the people of Timor Leste: An announcement from the Global Campus of Human Rights on the recent floods

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As the largest global network of universities involved in human rights education, with a presence in Timor-Leste, the Global Campus of Human Rights wishes to express its solidarity with the people and institutions of Timor-Leste, recently hit by a devastating flood.

This dramatic event has caused extensive damages throughout the country, and claimed the lives of many, including several children, while the count of displaced people is above 10,000.

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Dr Johan Heyns: An Exorcist of Apartheid – in Memory of his Son Christof Heyns

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On Sunday, 28 March, Christof Heyns suddenly and unexpectedly passed away during a hike in his native country South Africa. As founder of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Pretoria and the African Master in Human Rights and Democratisation, he was one of the pioneers and architects of the Global Campus of Human Rights.

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The Global Campus of Human Rights Mourns the Passing of Former Director of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria Christof Heyns (10 January 1959 – 28 March 2021)

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The Centre for Human Rights (Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria), together with the Global Campus of Human Rights,
is deeply saddened by the sudden passing of the previous Director of the Centre,Professor Christof Heyns. His death is an incredible loss, and he will be truly missed by us and so
many others across the world.

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The Global Campus celebrates the launch of the Annual Report 2020

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In an unprecedentedly challenging year, both for human rights and for us, the Global Campus embraced — and strengthened — its ties as a global network of almost 100 universities, proving that collaborative efforts can take us further.

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