Events
Webinar: The record thus far - The ‘Specialised’ Commercial Crime Courts [16 October 2025]
Zoom
This webinar launches a Policy Brief entitled: “The record thus far: The ‘Specialised’ Commercial Crime Courts” which considers the SCCC public record since establishment in 1999, as well as some of the likely reasons for the observed trends, and recommends some solutions to improve outcomes.
Webinar: Comparative study and findings on the impact of criminal, security and other exceptional laws and policies in select francophone and lusophone countries [26 August 2025]
Zoom
Burundi, Cote d’Ivoire and Mozambique
Webinar: Promises and Pitfalls - The NPA’s Office for Ethics and Accountability under the Spotlight
Zoom
Please join us for a webinar to reflect on the National Prosecuting Authority’s complaints mechanism.
Webinar: The appointment of the NDPP [14 August 2025]
Zoom
No constitutional appointment in South Africa deserves the description of “poisoned chalice” more than the position of National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). As the ultimate veto-holder and responsibility-bearer over all criminal prosecutions and the operation of the National Prosecuting Authority, the NDPP holds the weight of expectation of a country struggling under the burden of past and present corruption and crime.
Webinar: Cross-country determinants of independence of prosecution [2 December 2024]
Zoom
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.
Webinar: Sub-national governance and the plight of women working in public spaces [26 November 2024]
Zoom
Challenges and principles to improve policy and law-making
Webinar: “Not my Riot - SAPS, local government and crowd management" [1 August 2024]
Zoom
Reflecting on the proposed revised national policing standards for Municipal Police Services on crowd management during gatherings and demonstrations.
Awareness Raising and Training workshop: Dissemination of the Abidjan Rules, within the framework of the Special Mechanism of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa (CPTA) [28 June 2024]
Rooms 1C&D at the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
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).
Webinar: Sub-national governance and the plight of people working in public spaces [14 November 2023]
Online
The aim of this webinar is to discuss the challenges they experience; and provide recommendations for improvement to local authorities.
Webinar on Sub-national Governance, Law Enforcement and Oversight in Five African Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia [30 August 2023]
Zoom
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.
Webinar: Sub-national Governance, Law Enforcement and Oversight in Five African Countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia, 30 August 2023
Online
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.
Webinar: The Right to Public Spaces and Informal Work: Key considerations for Law & Policy-Making, 28 June 2023
Online
The webinar will unpack the impact of laws and policies on people working in the informal economy, address rights-based protections afforded to them and highlight key considerations for law and policy-making that protect their needs and interests.
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