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Venice Academy of Human Rights: applications are open

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The Venice Academy of Human Rights is an international and interdisciplinary programme of excellence for human rights education, research and debate. It provides an enriching forum for emerging ideas, practices and policy options in the field of human rights. The Academy hosts distinguished experts to promote critical and useful research...

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Prof. Manfred Nowak condemns “racist remarks” and shows “support & respect" for the African refugee who committed suicide in Venice

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We are here to honour the victim of a tragedy that occurred in Venice recently and involved Pateh Sabally, a 22-year-old Gambian, who bobbed up and down in the cold waters of Venice’s main waterway...

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Global Campus awarded theses for the academic year 2014/2015

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The best master theses of the Global Campus of Human Rights for the academic year 2014/2015 are now online. Since 2013, the Global Campus of Human Rights has granted this award to...

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Centre for Human Rights hosts memorable graduation ceremony

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The first graduates of the first fully-fledged hybrid Master’s programme presented by the Centre received their degrees at this Ceremony.  This Master’s programme brings together students from all across the continent in a combination of on-line and on-campus teaching and learning...

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Global Campus exchange of lecturers

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Between 16-19 December 2016, Prof. Frans Viljoen, Director of the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria and head of the African Programme on Human Rights and Democratisation, offered two lectures on the African System of Human Rights for the students of the Latin American Programme on Human Rights...

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