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• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - OFFERS

  Read the latest issue of our quarterly newsletter and catch up on our recent highlights

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  In recent weeks, eleven women have been killed in Ekurhuleni – devastating losses that reflect a much wider crisis of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa.

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  In August, CALS appeared before the Supreme Court of Appeal representing the Global Center on AI Governance as a friend of the court in litigation concerning the Social Relief of Distress grant.

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  We have also continued working alongside activists and civil society partners to strengthen collective responses to repression and shrinking civic space, including through our annual Activist Symposium.

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  our Environmental Justice programme has engaged with proposed changes to mining legislation, submitting comments on provisions that would introduce harsher penalties for mining without a permit

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  Researchers from Wits Planetary Health Research ( Wits PHR ), University of the Witwatersrand, and international partner institutions are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States to formally declare the climate crisis a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  The letter argues that the International Health Regulations (IHR) provide an existing mechanism for such a coordinated WHO-led response, and one that needs to be triggered to guide such a response.

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  A PHEIC would catalyse a more equitable and coordinated public health response, prioritising care for affected populations, strengthening surveillance of impacts, while laying the platform for a public health approach to emissions reduction.

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  On 24 September 2026, the University of the Witwatersrand took a leading role in the Joint Presidential Roundtable on Education, Skills and Jobs through South-South Cooperation.

• 30 Sept 2026University of the Witwatersrand - STATES

  The Wits School of Governance (WSG), alongside Wits University Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, projected African institutional leadership and governance expertise at the highest level of international diplomacy during the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81) High-Level

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