Centre for Human Rights

The Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, South Africa is an organisation dedicated to promoting human rights on the continent of Africa. The Centre, founded in 1986, promotes human rights through educational outreach, including multinational conferences, seminars and publications such as "Human Rights Law in Africa", "The African Human Rights Law Journal", the "African Human Rights Law Reports" and "The Constitutional Law of South Africa". The Centre, which was founded during Apartheid, assisted in adapting a Bill of Rights for South Africa and contributed to creating the South African constitution. [UNESCO, Human Rights and Gender Equality Section, Division of Human Rights, Human Security and Philosophy. (2006-Dec-11) [http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=10445&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html University of Pretoria's Centre for Human Rights wins 2006 UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education] portal.unesco.org. Retrieved 2008-Sep-22.] In 2006, the Centre received the UNESCO prize for Human Rights Education. [Europe Intelligence Wire. (2003-Jan-07) [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29106218_ITM UNESCO awards Czech film festival One World] Retrieved 2008-Sep-22]

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* [http://www.chr.up.ac.za/about/introduction.html Introduction] , Centre for Human Rights