Over the next two days, ISLA will be hosting an expert advisory meeting on women in the criminal justice system. The experts joining us have been drawn from academia and practise. The Litigation institutes are two-week intensive capacity...
A PUBLIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN Advocate Pansy Tlakula, Information Regulator (South Africa) and former chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Sibongile Ndashe, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa DATE: 9 October 2018 TIME: 16:30 for...
Recent local and global developments on sexual harassment have put the spotlight on the role of the law in addressing sexual harassment in the workplace. Almost four decades after legal feminist scholars helped to get the law to recognise...
Our ‘Violence against Women’ and ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ Litigation Institute runs from 3 -14 October. This institute is thought-provoking and informative. It focuses on the intersections between Violence Against Women (VAW) and Sexual and Reproductive Health...
The structure of the Litigation Institute includes; lectures, group work, and individual exercises. Participants are required to attend all sessions. Their final assessment will be in the form of the Moot Court Competition. Sessions will include introductions...
LITIGATION INSTITUTE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, AND SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS (03 October – 14 October 2016, Johannesburg) Our work is based on the belief that strategic litigation is an immensely strong tool for social change...
06-08 July, Johannesburg South Africa The aim of this meeting is to facilitate a conversation between a broad range of stakeholders particularly social movements. By convening this meeting aim to establish where our interventions are needed. The focus of...
22-23 June, Johannesburg South Africa We have partnered with the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, to jointly convene a workshop focusing on the two general recommendations recently adopted by the African Commission. The workshop aims to...