South Africa: University Centre Wins UN Prize for Human Rights Education

11 December 2006

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced today that a South African university centre established during the apartheid era has been awarded its biennial prize for human rights education.

The Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria has received the $10,000 prize in recognition of its "outstanding contribution to the cause of human rights in South Africa and to the advancement of a human rights culture by means of education and training of professionals in South Africa, other countries on the continent and beyond," UNESCO said in a press statement.

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