Centre for Human Rights

This article is about the organisation at the University of Pretoria. For other uses, see Centre for Human Rights (disambiguation).

Centre for Human Rights
TypeAcademic department
Non-governmental organisation
Established1986
DirectorFrans Viljoen
Location
South AfricaPretoria
,
Gauteng
,
South Africa
CampusHatfield
AffiliationsUniversity of Pretoria
WebsiteCentre for Human Rights

The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law, South Africa, is an organisation dedicated to promoting human rights on the continent of Africa. The centre, founded in 1986, promotes human rights through educational outreach, including multinational conferences, seminars and publications such as Human Rights Law in Africa, The African Human Rights Law Journal, the African Human Rights Law Reports and The Constitutional Law of South Africa. The centre, which was founded during Apartheid, assisted in adapting a Bill of Rights for South Africa and contributed to creating the South African Constitution.[1] In 2006, the centre received the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education, particular recognising for the LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa and the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition.[2]

  1. ^ UNESCO, Human Rights and Gender Equality Section, Division of Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy. (2006-Dec-11) University of Pretoria's Centre for Human Rights wins 2006 UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education Archived 2 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine portal.unesco.org. Retrieved 2008-Sep-22.
  2. ^ Europe Intelligence Wire. (2003-Jan-07) UNESCO awards Czech film festival One World Retrieved 2008-Sep-22