Urbanisation and the African Human Rights System: Reflections from Heidelberg

Questions of urbanisation and international law featured in a workshop co-organised last week in Heidelberg by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL) and Wits Law School, marking the 20th anniversary of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

On the panel on places and displacement, Committee member Marius Pieterse presented thoughts on how fit the African human rights system is to deal with issues of urbanisation. Committee Co-Chair and MPIL Director Helmut Aust addressed how the African system might speak to the building of charter cities and new towns.

Read more on these questions in a 2023 article by Marius Pieterse in the Leiden Journal of International Law: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/relevance-of-the-african-regional-human-rights-system-in-the-urban-age/83CA276521FA316BEAD417EC29D39877?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark