Professor Christof Heyns: A giant in human rights education
01 April 2021
The monumental contribution that Professor Christof Heyns has made to advance human rights in Africa and beyond emerged this week from a memorial Facebook page created to honour the former director of the Centre for Human Rights, which is part of the faculty of law, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
The 62-year-old Heyns died on 29 March while on a hike near Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Heyns was the director of the Centre for Human Rights from 1999 to 2006, the dean of the faculty of law at the University of Pretoria (UP) from 2007 to 2010 and thereafter became the founding co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at UP.
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Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Her doctoral work centered on a coalition of social movement organizations calling for an end to the ongoing non-governmental occupation of Haiti. She is currently working on a monograph entitled
Development Contested in Occupied Haiti: Social Movements, NGOs, and the Evangelical State. She has also served as an organizer with land and housing rights organizations Take Back the Land-Miami and is presently the International Coordinator for Community Movement Builders.
Mark Schuller is Professor at Northern Illinois University and affiliate at the Faculté d Ethnologie, l Université d État d Haïti. Author or co-editor of eight books, including