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Centre for Human Rights hosts memorable graduation ceremony

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The first graduates of the first fully-fledged hybrid Master’s programme presented by the Centre received their degrees at this Ceremony.  This Master’s programme brings together students from all across the continent in a combination of on-line and on-campus teaching and learning...

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Global Campus exchange of lecturers

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Between 16-19 December 2016, Prof. Frans Viljoen, Director of the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria and head of the African Programme on Human Rights and Democratisation, offered two lectures on the African System of Human Rights for the students of the Latin American Programme on Human Rights...

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E.MA call for applications for the academic year 2017/2018

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The European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) is a unique Master’s programme developed by 10 pioneering universities that today counts on the participation of 41 prestigious universities and human rights centres from all member states of the European Union...

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Training Seminar for International Electoral Observers: applications are open

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Admissions to the two-three day modules (20-22 March and 23-25 March 2017) of the Training Seminar for International Electoral Observers are open until 12 February 2017, early bird 22 January 2017 (with 10% discount...

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Human Rights or Global Capitalism - Manfred Nowak

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The new book of Manfred Nowak, Human Rights or Global Capitalism, is not simply concerned with the success or failure of neoliberal policies per se or judging whether they are good or bad. Rather, it examines the application of those policies from a human rights perspective and asks whether states, by...

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