Two post-doctoral researchers for the Children’s Rights Project at the Community Law Centre contributed a chapter to the first edition of the African Disability Rights Yearbook.
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On the November 2, 2013 Thulaganyo Selokela, a doctoral researcher for the Multi-level Government Initiative, recently attended the South African Local Government Association Women’s Commission meeting in Worscester Western Cape.
The Community Law Centre has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre for Federal Studies (CFS) at Addis Ababa University. In terms of that MOU, staff of the Community Law Centre regularly teaches at the CFS, particularly in its PhD programme.
The director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Jaap de Visser lectured a group of honours and LLM students on the place of local government in the South African system of multilevel government at the Ethiopian Civil Service College in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia yesterday (7 November 2013).
The Community Law Centre hosted a seminar that looked at challenges faced by institutions in South Africa in ensuring that growth leads to better living standards.
The Director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Jaap de Visser, presented a statement at the Opening Ceremony of the 22nd Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC).
On 21 October 2013, during the 54th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights holding in Banjul, The Gambia, the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape and the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights organised a side event on Penalisation of Poverty as a Human Rights Challenge in Africa.
The former director of the Community Law Centre, Prof Nico Steytler was appointed by President Jacob Zuma as member of the Financial and Fiscal Commission with effect from 01 September 2013, for a period of five years, as a part time commissioner. Prof Steytler is currently the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair.
A doctoral researcher at the Multi-level Initiative of the Community Law Centre, Thulaganyo Selokela, presented a paper on “Gender Representation in Local Government’. She presented this at a conference organised by the Institute for law in Action based at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University together with the Institute on Municipal Administration For Southern Africa.
The UN Special Rapporteur most recent African country visit, in April 2013 was in Mozambique. The final report is not available yet.
21 October 2013 - This past weekend, the Community Law Centre in partnership with the University of Western Cape Law Faculty hosted the sixth doctoral colloquium at the Atlantic Beach Hotel in Cape Town.
Today the NCOP Select Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development in parliament met to consider the negotiating mandates from the provinces on the Traditional Courts Bill. It was a short meeting, it seems that the actual work took place behind closed doors prior to the meeting session.