The School of Public Health and Family Medicine has a diverse involvement in human rights teaching, research and advocacy. Much of this takes place through collaboration with human rights NGO’s, other research and training institutions and human rights activists within and outside South Africa. In particular, the collaboration with the Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture, a human rights NGO in Cape Town, took the form of a Health and Human Rights Project (HHRP) between 1997 and 1999 which provided input to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Health Sector hearings, and facilitated the promotion of human rights in the health sector more broadly. The HHRP provided the basis for the development of the Health and Human Rights programme within the School of Public Health and Family Medicine.
