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All Africa Course on International Humanitarian Law - 28 January and 06 February 2020.
The Pretoria Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross together with the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa and the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria will be presenting the seventeenth All Africa Course on International Humanitarian Law between 28 January and 06 February 2020.
Media Advisory: International human rights and humanitarian law experts urge the Bolivian Government and Armed Forces to abide by their international law obligations
San Francisco, CA, and Cambridge, MA (November 26, 2019) -- Today, experts in international law urged the Bolivian Government to abide by its international legal obligations to protect the freedom of assembly and prohibit the excessive use of force against civilian protesters.
UN developing a restatement of legal rules on how demonstrations handled
Pretoria - The UN is in the process of developing a restatement of the legal rules on how demonstrations are to be handled. Prof Christof Heyns from the University of Pretoria’s law faculty, who is also a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, has been appointed to lead this process.
Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria
The Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) is a research institute located in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. The ICLA was established at the beginning of 2011 and is located in a beautifully renovated house with wooden floors next to the Law Building. The Institute houses an extensive collection of antique furniture and art and also serves as the Christo Coetzee museum.
ICLA houses staff members from various departments in the Faculty of Law, as well as visitors and post-graduate students. A total of 43 doctoral students are currently registered with ICLA staff members and 30 have completed their doctoral studies. The main focus of ICLA is on international and domestic law in Africa, but it also has a broader focus on international law beyond the borders of the continent.
in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights
