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.
Challenges and principles to improve policy and law-making
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.”
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.
The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), in collaboration with the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of Western Cape, will convene a seminar titled 'Coalition Governance in Western Cape Municipalities: A South African Blueprint?'
Please join us on 6 August from 14h30 to 16h30 to listen to Prof Rod Uphoff (University of Missouri) for his insights on American politics and the presidential election of 2024. He will also answer questions on Trump’s legal cases.
Reflecting on the proposed revised national policing standards for Municipal Police Services on crowd management during gatherings and demonstrations.
The SARChl Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office and the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a webinar.
Awareness-raising and training workshop for the dissemination of the Rules establishing and operating the mechanism for alerting and reporting situations of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (The Abidjan Rules).
The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) invites you to a webinar on the Report Launch & Dialogue of the Registers of councillors' interests: A missed opportunity to enhance accountability and transparency in local government.
The Dullah Omar Institute invites you to the 14th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture to be delivered by Chief Justice R. Zondo
The symposium is co-organized by HRP, the Center for International Law & Policy in Africa (CILPA) and the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape. It is co-sponsored by the Salata Institute, the Petrie-Flom Center, the David Rockefeller for Latin American Studies, Human Rights Entrepreneurs and Incubator Clinic, and the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World.
The SARChl Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute invites you to a hybrid Conference.
The SARChl Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Development at the Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a hybrid seminar.
The Dullah Omar Institute, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to a hybrid seminar on Coalition governments: What are the options for law reform at municipal level?
The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape invites you to the third webinar in the series on Realising the Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa.
Regulation of unhealthy food and beverage marketing to children in Africa
The Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights will host a Conversation session on the right to a healthy, clean and sustainable environment with Prof Hélène Tigroudja, a member of the UN Human Rights Committee - and our postgraduate students.
The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape invites you to a webinar series on Realising the Socio-Economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa
In April 2023 Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) launched a webinar series on sub-national governance and the criminalisation of poverty and status. ACJR, hereby cordially invites you to the third installment of the above series focusing on ‘Sub-national Governance, Law Enforcement and Oversight in Five African Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia’. The webinar will unpack issues relating to sub-national law enforcement, highlighting concerns regarding a general lack of oversight mechanisms for monitoring and accountability, and discussing the implications for practice and law reform at a sub-national level.
Ahead of the scheduled release by the South African Police Service (SAPS) of the latest Quarterly Crime data, Dr Jean Redpath takes a look at what we can learn from previous quarterly and annual data about the drivers of violent crime in South Africa, primarily through the indicator of murder.
The Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, in conjunction with the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape, cordially invites you to a panel discussion that considers the impact of social rights litigation in South Africa.
The Dullah Omar Institute invites you to a SARChI DIALOGUE SERIES: “The arrest and prosecution of Heads of State for International Crimes”
This Dialogue is hosted by the Deputy President Mashatile, in collaboration with the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape.
The Socio-Economic Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape invites you to a webinar on Realising the Socio-economic Rights of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Africa.
The Africa Criminal Justice Reform (ACJR) in collaboration with the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) hereby cordially invites you to the second component of the webinar series on sub-national governance and the criminalisation of poverty and status.
Various experts will share their insights on the challenges and provide practical recommendations on how to make research effective.
The Dullah Omar Institute (DOI), in collaboration with the International Budget Partnership-South Africa (IBP-SA), invites you to a webinar.
The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO) together with the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) cordially invites you to a webinar discussion on Coalition Governance – Are We Ready?
The presence of an elaborate network of members of the so-called Numbers Gang is a well-known phenomenon in South African correctional facilities or prisons in short.