KNUST Team qualifies for final round of 2022 African Human Rights Moot Court Competition in Egypt
In addition to qualifying for the final round of this year’s Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, KNUST has also been selected to host the 2023 edition.
The KNUST Faculty of Law Team at the ongoing 2022 African Human Rights Moot Court Competition in Cairo, Egypt, has qualified for the final round.
This year's edition, which is the 31st of the Christof Heyns competition, is being held at the British University in Egypt from 25 - 30 July 2022.
The 2022 competition started with 50 law Faculties across Africa who have battled it out to this point.
The final event is expected to take place on July 30, 2022, at the Auditorium of the British University in Egypt.
KNUST Team
Team KNUST is being represented by Ms. Afia Owusua Banahene, Ms. Anita Enyonam Dei, and Ms. Majida Issah Abah.
They are accompanied by their Coach; Mr. Ezekiel Osei, the Dean; Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, and the Registrar of the Faculty; Mrs. Abigail Dzama Anderson, who are there under the auspices of the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa to observe the competition as KNUST FACULTY OF LAW prepares to host next year's edition of the competition.
PARTICIPATING FACULTIES FROM GHANA
In all, three Ghanaian Universities took part in the preliminary session of the competition. These are KNUST, the University of Ghana, and GIMPA.
However, the team from KNUST stood tall among their counterparts by topping in the preliminary qualifying round, proceeded to the quarter-finals, won again to qualify to the semi-finals, and eventually for the final round.
This has placed the KNUST team in the prestigious position as the only English team from West Africa to qualify for the finals.
Even though the University of Ghana team qualified for the quarter-finals, they could sadly not proceed to the semi-finals.
For Team GIMPA, it did not go beyond the preliminary qualifying stage of the competition.
In addition to qualifying for the final round of this year’s Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, KNUST has also been selected to host the 2023 edition.
Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Court Competition
This is the largest gathering of students, academics, and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa.
This annual event brings together all law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
The Competition continuously prepares new generations of lawyers to argue cases of alleged human rights violations before the African Court.
It has since its inception in 1992, hosted 150 universities from 50 African countries.
This year’s Hypothetical case will tackle issues relating to internet intermediary liability in addition to climate change and human trafficking.
