Johan David van der Vyver (21 February 1934 – 22 May 2023) was a South African lawyer and academic who was the I.T.
Van der Vyver attended Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, where he was classmates with F.W.
[1] He was heavily involved in the promotion of human rights in South Africa, advocating for an end to apartheid, while a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
In October 2006, van der Vyver addressed the U.S. State Department on whether to make the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief a convention.
He argued that the government should push for "true" international consensus, rather than a "lukewarm" convention on religious tolerance.