Call for Applications: for Advanced Human Rights Course: Disability Rights in an African Context, 17 – 21 March 2025
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, will host a one-week intensive short course on disability rights in an African context from 17 – 21 March 2025.
Course date: 17 – 21 March 2025
Venue: Online (Zoom)
About the course
This short course is part of a series of annual advanced human rights courses offered by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. The 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 content
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 non-discrimination 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.
Fees
The course will be offered in a hybrid format.
Participation in the course online is a $150 USD.
In person attendance is $250 USD.
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