![Sixth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) [8-21 November 2026]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/sixth-african-school-on-decentralisation-asd/@@images/08debd1c-8d24-4026-8d44-d68a06f96f72.jpeg "Sixth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) [8-21 November 2026]"){kind=small}
The theme for the Sixth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) is ‘Central-local Relations’.
![Launch: "Without fear, favour and prejudice" - Join the call to reform the National Prosecuting Authority Act [1 April 2026]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/launch-without-fear-favour-and-prejudice-join-the-call-to-reform-the-national-prosecuting-authority-act-1-april-2026/@@images/43c79ccc-239d-4270-a6e7-597ba74e1003.jpeg "Launch: \"Without fear, favour and prejudice\" - Join the call to reform the National Prosecuting Authority Act [1 April 2026]")
Please join us for the launch of the Prosecutions Project, a national campaign for the reform of the National Prosecuting Authority Act.
![Training Course: Building Capacity for Civil Society to Participate in Local Government [23-25 February 2026]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/training-course-building-capacity-for-civil-society-to-participate-in-local-government/@@images/9b21f77f-430f-4cde-9779-b6331bc27a2a.png "Training Course: Building Capacity for Civil Society to Participate in Local Government [23-25 February 2026]")
Interested in improving local service delivery?
![Webinar on a New Study: Toiling for survival - Children in the urban informal sector in Africa [9 December 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-on-a-new-study-toiling-for-survival-children-in-the-urban-informal-sector-in-africa-9-december-2025/@@images/3cb363d9-8cc2-4317-9535-9c10c0717869.png "Webinar on a New Study: Toiling for survival - Children in the urban informal sector in Africa [9 December 2025]")
By: The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) under the African Children's Charter Project (ACCP). Formal launch: 46th Ordinary Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
![Webinar Series: Climate Change and Children’s Rights - Are Global Climate Convenings Delivering for Children? Reflecting on the 2nd Africa Climate Summit and COP30 [2 December 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-series-climate-change-and-children2019s-rights-are-global-climate-convenings-delivering-for-children-reflecting-on-the-2nd-africa-climate-summit-and-cop30-2-december-2025/@@images/6a4a6157-a3ac-49e5-beda-41be10c65529.jpeg "Webinar Series: Climate Change and Children’s Rights - Are Global Climate Convenings Delivering for Children? Reflecting on the 2nd Africa Climate Summit and COP30 [2 December 2025]")
The Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape invites you to a reflective conversation on whether, and if so, how global climate summits are shaping children’s rights. Special focus will be on children in the African continent, with millions of children impacted by the climate crisis. This reflective webinar will take place after the Africa Climate Summit held in Ethiopia (September 2025) and the Conference of Parties (COP30) held in Brazil (November 2025).
![Launch: 17th Issue of the Local Government Law of South Africa [19 November 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/launch-17th-issue-of-the-local-government-law-of-south-africa-19-november-2025/@@images/c912ccdd-28f4-4300-90f5-db8d66c0b1bf.jpeg "Launch: 17th Issue of the Local Government Law of South Africa [19 November 2025]")
The National Research Chair in Multilevel Government at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, and the Municipal Law Forum invites you to the launch of the updated ‘Local Government Law of South Africa’ (published by LexisNexis South Africa).
![Live Panel Discussion and Webinar: The 2026 Municipal Elections & the State of Local Government [18 November 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/live-panel-discussion-and-webinar-the-2026-municipal-elections-the-state-of-local-government-18-november-2025-1/@@images/f9b92e97-33f3-4290-9a09-7b3819f60c5c.jpeg "Live Panel Discussion and Webinar: The 2026 Municipal Elections & the State of Local Government [18 November 2025]")
The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office, the Dullah Omar Institute, and the Hanns Seidel Foundation cordially invite you to our live panel discussion and webinar on The 2026 Municipal Elections & the State of Local Government.
![Webinar: From Criminalisation to Care: Self-Managed Abortion in Africa [11 November 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-from-criminalisation-to-care-self-managed-abortion-in-africa-11-november-2025/@@images/95dc8d41-b3ec-42de-8fc2-35cbe59f11c8.jpeg "Webinar: From Criminalisation to Care: Self-Managed Abortion in Africa [11 November 2025]"){kind=small}
The Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, warmly invites you to a webinar.
![Webinar: Impact of Public Health Emergencies (PHEs) on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Services in Africa [30 October 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-impact-of-public-health-emergencies-phes-on-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-srhr-services-in-africa-18-september-2025/@@images/148d9323-23c3-447a-8a0b-13956c06ea60.jpeg "Webinar: Impact of Public Health Emergencies (PHEs) on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Services in Africa [30 October 2025]"){kind=small}
The Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, warmly invites you to a webinar. The webinar examines how public health emergencies impact sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa, highlighting the fragile state of Africa’s health systems.
![ACHPR - Side event: Strengthening the role of community-based paralegals in access to justice in Africa [24 October 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/achpr-side-event-strengthening-the-role-of-community-based-paralegals-in-access-to-justice-in-africa-24-october-2025/@@images/99670cb8-a936-41ec-aa89-5783c3c835fb.jpeg "ACHPR - Side event: Strengthening the role of community-based paralegals in access to justice in Africa [24 October 2025]")
Strengthening the role of community-based paralegals in access to justice in Africa
![15th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture [21 October 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/15th-dullah-omar-memorial-lecture/@@images/72fe2827-3c1a-4552-946b-d7a8641384cf.png "15th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture [21 October 2025]")
The Dullah Omar Institute and the Faculty of Law at the University of the Western Cape, in collaboration with the Omar Family, are honoured to present the 15th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture, reflecting on “The Legacy of Dullah Omar, the Human Rights Lawyer.”
![Webinar Series: Children’s Rights and Business - "Mining and the Extractive Industry in Africa: Implications for Children’s Rights" [16 October 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-series-children2019s-rights-and-business-mining-and-the-extractive-industry-in-africa-implications-for-children2019s-rights-16-october-2025/@@images/5b180f14-ca9f-4c6e-b606-025ea91839ea.png "Webinar Series: Children’s Rights and Business - \"Mining and the Extractive Industry in Africa: Implications for Children’s Rights\" [16 October 2025]")
The Children’s Rights Project of the Dullah Omar Institute University of the Western Cape invites you to a timely and important conversation on the intersection between children’s rights and mining operations in Africa.
![Webinar: The record thus far - The ‘Specialised’ Commercial Crime Courts [16 October 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-the-record-thus-far-the-2018specialised2019-commercial-crime-courts-16-october-2025/@@images/1ae79897-4f00-4a8f-aa44-372b84c7913f.png "Webinar: The record thus far - The ‘Specialised’ Commercial Crime Courts [16 October 2025]"){kind=small}
This webinar launches a Policy Brief entitled: “The record thus far: The ‘Specialised’ Commercial Crime Courts” which considers the SCCC public record since establishment in 1999, as well as some of the likely reasons for the observed trends, and recommends some solutions to improve outcomes.
![Livestream: Opening Day of the 5th African School on Decentralisation [13 October 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/livestream-opening-day-of-the-5th-african-school-on-decentralisation-13-october-2025/@@images/8e53ae5e-befb-4cad-b8a3-2127a6dff03c.png "Livestream: Opening Day of the 5th African School on Decentralisation [13 October 2025]")
Tune in to the livestream of the first day of the 5th African School on Decentralisation, a two-week Certificate Course bringing together practitioners from across Africa.
![Webinar: Laws and Policies on Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Africa [11 September 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-laws-and-policies-on-young-people2019s-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-srhr-in-africa-11-september-2025/@@images/30f165d0-611c-4185-b474-1f9ccf2609b6.png "Webinar: Laws and Policies on Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Africa [11 September 2025]"){kind=small}
The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, invites you to a webinar that explores how national laws and policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) shape the lived realities of adolescents and young people, presenting evidence and case studies from across Africa.
![Webinar Series: Climate Change and Children’s Rights - Integrating Children's Rights in the Planning and Delivery of Climate Action in Africa - Aspirations for the Africa Climate Summit [5 September 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-series-climate-change-and-children2019s-rights-integrating-childrens-rights-in-the-planning-and-delivery-of-climate-action-in-africa-aspirations-for-the-africa-climate-summit-5-september-2025/@@images/608616c9-1cb4-406d-999f-77cadef26532.png "Webinar Series: Climate Change and Children’s Rights - Integrating Children's Rights in the Planning and Delivery of Climate Action in Africa - Aspirations for the Africa Climate Summit [5 September 2025]")
The Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape; Plan International; Save the Children International; and 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. This comes at a time ahead of the Africa Climate Summit to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 8-10 September 2025.
![Webinar: Comparative study and findings on the impact of criminal, security and other exceptional laws and policies in select francophone and lusophone countries [26 August 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-comparative-study-and-findings-on-the-impact-of-criminal-security-and-other-exceptional-laws-and-policies-in-select-francophone-and-lusophone-countries-26-august-2025/@@images/0d136311-16cb-46d6-a898-02292ba86422.png "Webinar: Comparative study and findings on the impact of criminal, security and other exceptional laws and policies in select francophone and lusophone countries [26 August 2025]"){kind=small}
Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire and Mozambique
Please join us for a webinar to reflect on the National Prosecuting Authority’s complaints mechanism.
![Webinar: The appointment of the NDPP [14 August 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-the-appointment-of-the-ndpp-14-august-2025/@@images/7838a3fe-f8b1-4293-9aa0-cbc403715c48.png "Webinar: The appointment of the NDPP [14 August 2025]"){kind=small}
No constitutional appointment in South Africa deserves the description of “poisoned chalice” more than the position of National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). As the ultimate veto-holder and responsibility-bearer over all criminal prosecutions and the operation of the National Prosecuting Authority, the NDPP holds the weight of expectation of a country struggling under the burden of past and present corruption and crime.
![SARChI DIALOGUE SERIES - The Global AI Race: Power, Politics, and the Erosion of Rights [11 August 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/sarchi-dialogue-series-the-global-ai-race-power-politics-and-the-erosion-of-rights-11-august-2025/@@images/0ae798cb-01db-469d-859f-157997db5f0a.jpeg "SARChI DIALOGUE SERIES - The Global AI Race: Power, Politics, and the Erosion of Rights [11 August 2025]")
The National Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Prof Jaap de Visser, invites you to the SARChI DIALOGUE SERIES: The Global AI Race: Power, Politics, and the Erosion of Rights
![Webinar Series - Children’s Rights and Business in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities [17 July 2025]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-series-children2019s-rights-and-business-in-africa-challenges-and-opportunities-17-july-2025/@@images/1fce2616-683d-416a-b6ac-8754261c8ac9.png "Webinar Series - Children’s Rights and Business in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities [17 July 2025]"){kind=small}
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-series-climate-change-and-children2019s-rights-leveraging-a-child-rights-based-approach-1-july-2025/@@images/f8f4b4ef-fa5d-474e-adae-946a356799bd.png "Webinar Series - Climate Change and Children’s Rights: Leveraging a Child-Rights-Based Approach [1 July 2025]"){kind=small}
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-on-unpacking-deception-how-misleading-food-marketing-targets-children-2013-and-the-role-of-the-consumer-protection-act-2008-10-june-2025/@@images/4150cf2a-b806-44e4-a8b9-b988524a784b.png "Webinar on Unpacking deception: How misleading food marketing targets children – and the role of the Consumer Protection Act 2008 [10 June 2025]"){kind=small}
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-combating-obstetric-violence-in-africa-human-rights-dignity-and-accountability-in-maternal-health-care-27-may-2025/@@images/9c1c610c-3089-4a0a-af6d-968b5e34cadb.png "Webinar - Combating Obstetric Violence in Africa: Human Rights, Dignity, and Accountability in Maternal Health Care [27 May 2025]"){kind=small}
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/info-webinar-fifth-african-school-on-decentralisation-asd-20-may-2025/@@images/490dc013-5f1b-4dbc-a8e6-f48e011d5d96.jpeg "Info Webinar: Fifth African School on Decentralisation (ASD) [20 May 2025]")
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/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/@@images/8dce672f-a2ec-4fd4-8b04-adf2e2357a5e.jpeg "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]")
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-cross-country-determinants-of-independence-of-prosecution-2-december-2024/@@images/ccd90be1-cdf0-48f5-b665-d22680ec71b6.png "Webinar: Cross-country determinants of independence of prosecution [2 December 2024]"){kind=small}
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]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-sub-national-governance-and-the-plight-of-women-working-in-public-spaces-26-november-2024/@@images/29e9a049-8cf5-41b0-9ef9-54967db587c5.png "Webinar: Sub-national governance and the plight of women working in public spaces [26 November 2024]"){kind=small}
Challenges and principles to improve policy and law-making
![Webinar: Elevating the Debate and Catalyzing Action: Towards a Pan African Network of Decentralization Advocates [22 October 2024]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/webinar-elevating-the-debate-and-catalyzing-action-towards-a-pan-african-network-of-decentralization-advocates-22-october-2024/@@images/aadb8223-db08-42e1-9061-4b367f241486.png "Webinar: Elevating the Debate and Catalyzing Action: Towards a Pan African Network of Decentralization Advocates [22 October 2024]")
The African School of Decentralisation, the LPSA Sub-Saharan Africa Working Group, the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape, and the Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies at Addis Ababa University have organized a special meeting on “Elevating the Debate and Catalyzing Action: Towards a Pan African Network of Decentralization Advocates.”
![Roundtable on Obstetric Violence: Leveraging Regional Mechanisms for Litigation and Strategic Advocacy [14 October 2024]](https://dullahomarinstitute.org.za/events/roundtable-on-obstetric-violence-leveraging-regional-mechanisms-for-litigation-and-strategic-advocacy-14-october-2024/@@images/6e4e286c-7ded-49a7-a537-dbfbf50aae02.jpeg "Roundtable on Obstetric Violence: Leveraging Regional Mechanisms for Litigation and Strategic Advocacy [14 October 2024]")
This roundtable is organised by the Bridging the Gap Coalition under the Women’s Platform. The roundtable on Obstetric Violence (OV) will build on prior discussions from the 78th ACHPR session to advance the use of regional human rights mechanisms in addressing the OV in Africa. The session will explore how the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) can be leveraged to strengthen advocacy, develop normative standards, and hold states accountable for their obligations to protect women from OV. The roundtable shape future strategies for engaging regional mechanisms to combat obstetric violence across Africa.
