Academic Courses and Programmes

The Centre, together with the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria, the University of Makerere of Uganda and the University of Ghana, jointly offers a course in the LLM on Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa degree.

From 2001 to 2003, the Project's Senior Researcher presented lectures on social, economic and cultural rights as part of the module on comparative human rights offered in this course. In the second semester of each year, the Centre hosts between six and seven students from the programme.

The social, economic and cultural rights course presented by the Project's Senior Researcher, forms part of the compulsory requirements that students have to fulfil for the successful completion of this degree. Two of the students hosted at the Centre served mini-internships with the Project.

The Centre staff also gave ad hoc lectures on socio-economic rights at academic institutions both in South Africa and abroad. In 2003, the Project's Senior Researcher designed and taught a training course on socio-economic rights aimed at non-governmental organisations and officials in the SADC region. This course was presented from 9-13 June as part of the Good Governance Academy presented by the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria.