On 20 March, delegates from the Botswana Law Society visited the Legal Education and Development (LEAD) offices in Pretoria. Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) Chief Executive Officer, Nic Swart and Kathleen Matolo-Dlepu, former Co-chairperson of the LSSA welcomed the delegation.Kathleen Kriel...
Project Officer, Women Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria In dealing with past human rights abuses and upholding standards of respect for human rights, The Gambia’s transition from an abusive regime to democracy must also entail justice for victims of gender-based violen...
However, this kind of inequality underpinned by exploitative and oppressive capitalist mode of production tends to weaken what some scholars have referred to as the ‘social instinct’ and breeds discontent, opposition and conflicts between society’s classes. In this kind of clime, the less privileg...
Abortion is an issue that exposes deep divisions in Irish society and this was apparent during the debates on theProtection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013. This introduced a framework regulating abortion into Irish law for the first time, but maintained the existing position where abortion is ...
since 2007. She has written for the BIALL journal,Legal Information Management, and is a contributor to City Law School’sOpinion Writing andCase Preparation(Oxford University Press). Previously she was a European Union Librarian at the Law Society Library, and she began her career at HM Treasu...
Aesthetics of violence in the prophets At the 2006 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Prophetic Texts in their Ancient Contexts section devoted a session to the theme "The Aesthetics of Violence." Participants were invited to explore multiple dimensions... C Julia O`Brien ...
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of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights, Prof. Coast teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Tamara Fetters works for Ipas as a Senior Researcher. We thank them for this overview of their legal findings, and the link to their new article inSexual and Reproductive...
Wakene Institute for International and Comparative Law (ICLA), Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria A person with visual impairment residing in Dire Dawa – Ethiopia’s second largest city in the Eastern part of the country – was recently reported to have set himself on fire in broad ...
Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria The rise of digital technology has reshaped the world in various ways. While it has promoted progress in communication, education, and economic empowerment, it has also given rise to new forms of gender-based violence. In particular, women in Afri...