Events

Webinar Series - Children’s Rights and Business in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities [17 July 2025]

17 Jul, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM — Zoom,

The Children’s Rights Project hereby cordially invites you to attend the first instalment of the above series, which will focus on the general and overarching theme of “Children’s Rights and Business in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.”

Webinar Series - Climate Change and Children’s Rights: Leveraging a Child-Rights-Based Approach [1 July 2025]

01 Jul, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM — Zoom,

The Children’s Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, in partnership with the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, invites you to a timely and important conversation on climate change and children’s rights, a serious and growing challenge affecting millions of children across Africa.

Webinar on Unpacking deception: How misleading food marketing targets children – and the role of the Consumer Protection Act 2008 [10 June 2025]

10 Jun, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM — Zoom,

The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, invites you to a timely and impactful webinar on how South Africa’s Consumer Protection Act (CPA) of 2008 can be used to challenge misleading food and beverage marketing targeted at children.

Webinar - Combating Obstetric Violence in Africa: Human Rights, Dignity, and Accountability in Maternal Health Care [27 May 2025]

27 May, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM — Zoom,

The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute invites you to a critical and timely webinar on Obstetric Violence in Africa - a pervasive yet often overlooked form of gender-based violence that undermines maternal health and women's rights across the African continent.

Info Webinar: Fifth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) [20 May 2025]

20 May, 2025 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM — Zoom,

The theme for the Fifth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) is ‘Decentralisation and Finances’. The 2025 ASD will focus on how decentralisation governance in Africa is financed, and on the systems and rules for the prudent use of public finances at decentralised level.

SARChI DIALOGUE SERIES: New Challenges for constitutionalism, fundamental rights, and risks to democracy in the first 100 days of the Trump, Vance, and Musk administration in the United States [16 April 2025]

16 Apr, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM — Kader Asmal Moot Court, Faculty of Law, UWC,

Speaker: Professor Xavier Philippe (Professor of Public Law at the Law Faculty of the University Paris 1 Pantheon- Sorbonne (Sorbonne School of Law) and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape)

Webinar: Cross-country determinants of independence of prosecution [2 December 2024]

02 Dec, 2024 from 03:00 PM to 04:30 PM — Zoom,

Prosecution agencies across the world enjoy varying degrees of independence from the government of the day. In cases of corruption involving state actors and those dealing with the state, their autonomy is crucial to ensure impartiality and public trust.

Webinar: Sub-national governance and the plight of women working in public spaces [26 November 2024]

26 Nov, 2024 from 11:30 AM to 01:00 PM — Zoom,

Challenges and principles to improve policy and law-making