Dr Brews Soyapi, post-doctoral fellow at the NWU, has been invited as an expert to represent South Africa at the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (Prof. David Boyd's) regional consultation to be held in Geneva at the UN from 20-21 June. This is an immense achievement and testimony to his expertise in human rights and the environment. 

It is a closed expert meeting by invitation only which will bring together experts and practitioners from diverse environmental and human rights backgrounds, to discuss experience and best practices of States at the national and regional levels with regard to human rights obligations relating to the environment with a particular focus on the right to a healthy and sustainable environment.