Deadline: 22-Feb-21
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will host a 5-day intensive short course on Disability Rights in an African Context from 8 to 12 March 2021.
This short course is part of the Centre’s efforts in promoting disability rights in Africa by raising awareness about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) (2006) and the newly adopted Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (2018).
Course Outline
Broadly stated, the aims and objectives of the intensive course are to provide learners with knowledge and techniques that enable them to:
- Understand the development of disability as a global human rights issue.
- Understand and apply provisions of the CRPD.
- Apply the CRPD to selected areas.
- Understand the development of disability as a human rights issue as the African regional and sub-regional levels.
- Understand and apply the intersection between the human rights and cultural aspects of disability in an African context.
- Understand and apply disability from a comparative human rights law perspective in other regions, including the European and Latin American regions.
- Understand and apply the regulation of disability from a comparative law perspective in selected non-African countries.
- Understand and apply theoretical approaches to equality and nondiscrimination in a disability context.
- The course is presented by lecturers who are drawn from a variety of countries and are experts in disability rights law.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on travel and global lockdowns, the course will be offered online on Zoom.
Participation in the course therefore FREE of charge.
For more information, visit https://www.chr.up.ac.za/courses-presented/disability-rights-in-an-african-context