Events

BOOK LAUNCH: Urban Climate Resilience: The Role of Law [11 October 2022]

Oct 11, 2022 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM — Zoom,

The Applied Constitutional Study Laboratory (ACSL) at the Dullah Omar Institute together with the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC), University of the Western Cape, invite you to a Book Launch on Urban Climate Resilience: The Role of Law.

HYBRID EVENT: The application of ubuntu in law, mediation and social change [21 September 2022]

Sep 21, 2022 from 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM — Kader Asmal Moot Court, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape | Zoom,

The Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with Let’s Collaborate, and Street Law UWC, is inviting you to a lecture and panel discussion on Moving from the Era of Separation to the Ubuntu Era/Era of Togetherness.

A discussion of the run up to, and impact of the recent Supreme Court judgment, upholding William Ruto's election as the next President of Kenya.

The Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria cordially invites you to the Helen Kanzira Memorial Lecture.

ACJR and CHREAA hereby cordially invites you to a webinar to discuss the findings emanating from the stakeholder engagement in Malawi and to deliberate on recommendations for handling similar future public health crisis.

The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape invite you, or a representative from your organisation, to a webinar on Special Needs Housing Policy: Progress and Status.

Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa & Zambia

Enabling legal environments for realising the Right to Food in South Africa: Has Covid moved us forward?

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) must prosecute corruption at all levels of government. While much of the focus has been on the capture of national government and national state-owned enterprises (SOEs), there has also been widespread corruption in municipalities.

The Applied Constitutional Study Laboratory (ACSL) at the Dullah Omar Institute together with the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC), University of the Western Cape, invite you to a webinar: Does Nature have a Constitutional Right to Exist - As Nature?

The Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies at Addis Ababa University invites you to join and be part of the key conversations from the School’s opening day.

In the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in the past weeks, the governance of Crimea, the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, and Luhansk People's Republic are on the agenda.

The Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a webinar on safeguarding the integrity of councillors and senior managers in local government.

The Dullah Omar Institute, Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, the School of Law, SOAS University of London, the SOAS Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University Press and the Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State, invite you to the virtual launch of the Journal of African Law (JAL) Special Issue on COVID-19 and the Law in Africa (edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, Olivia Lwabukuna, Lutz Oette and Sope Williams-Elegbe).

Join the Forum of Federations and the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies for an official book launch and discussion.

The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the School of Public Leadership (Stellenbosch University), invites you to a webinar titled: Towards increased fiscal and operational sustainability in Western Cape Local Municipalities and beyond.

We invite you to join us in conversation with other civil society organisations and elected representatives on the successes, challenges and lessons the Putting the ‘People’ in People’s Parliament project (PPiPP) has learnt over the last four years. The conversation will focus on some of the structural issues that have surfaced through implementing the project and we will consider these in terms of future work by CSOs and legislatures to strengthen and deepen our legislatures’ performance of their role in democracy.

The Applied Constitutional Study Laboratory (ACSL) at the Dullah Omar Institute together with the Global Environmental Law Centre (GELC), University of the Western Cape, invite you to a webinar on Climate Change and Constitutional Law.

The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), in collaboration with the International Budget Partnership-South Africa (IBP-SA), invites you to a webinar on the Report Launch & Dialogue: How Transparent Is Municipal Procurement?.

The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the School of Public Leadership (Stellenbosch University), invites you to a webinar.

The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the School of Public Leadership (Stellenbosch University), invites you to a webinar

On 11 October 2021, after examining a petition filed by 16 children from 12 countries in 2019, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued its decision in Saachi et al v Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey.

The Socio-Economic Rights Project (SERP) at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape invite you to a Book Launch and Dialogue on the book: Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa: Decolonial Perspectives on Political Economy and Corruption (Routledge, 2021).

The Dullah Omar Institute (Multilevel Government, Law and Development and Africa Criminal Justice Reform) will take a closer look at local government, crime, and the 2021 elections.

The Applied Constitutional Study Laboratory (ACSL) and the Socio-economic Rights Project (SERP) at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape invite you to a webinar on The Resilience of the Rule of Law in Africa.

The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, invites you to its first webinar in a series on the ‘Legal Frameworks Around Diet-Related Non-Communicable Diseases in South Africa’. This two-part series is organised by the Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, in partnership with the Global Center for Legal Innovation on Food Environments at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.

The Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, invites you to a webinar on the legal framework around local government elections. This webinar is organised by the Dullah Omar Institute, in partnership with the Independent Electoral Commission and the Department of Cooperative Government, with the support of the Embassy of Switzerland to South Africa.

The Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Western Cape Department of Local Government, invites you to a webinar on the Report Launch & Dialogue: Combating Corruption in Local Government.