Sexual Minority Rights in Africa Advanced Course brings together TransMaputo Project and Pride and Letters Queer Literary Festival

Posted on February 28, 2019

On so many levels, the last week of February 2019 was a risky leap for the Queer Space Collective, comprising the Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for Sexualities AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria. It was the maiden edition of the Invitation: Pride and Letters - Queer Literary...

Faculty of Law says goodbye to Professor Karin van Marle

Posted on February 08, 2019

On 24 January 2019 the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria bid farewell to Professor Karin van Marle from its Department of Jurisprudence. Professor Van Marle joined the Department of Jurisprudence (then known as the Department of Legal History, Comparative Law and Legal Philosophy) as a...

Call for Applications: Disability Rights Unit internship opportunity

Posted on February 01, 2019

The Disability Rights Unit at the Centre for Human Rights seeks to appoint an appropriately qualified individual (student) for its internship programme, based in Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

Press Statement: Centre for Human Rights lauds Angolan parliament for the decriminalisation of same-sex sexual acts between consenting adults

Posted on January 30, 2019

The Centre congratulates the government, parliament and people of Angola, for the brave steps taken, through its judicial reform programme, towards the decriminalisation of ‘habitual unnatural vices’, into which consensual adult same-sex sexual conduct was read.

Centre for Human Rights expresses concern about human rights violations in Zimbabwe

Posted on January 16, 2019

The Centre is deeply concerned by the reported ongoing human rights violations in our immediate northern neighbour, taking the form of excessive use of force and restrictions on the free flow of information.

International Conference of Information Commissioners

Posted on January 09, 2019

The Information Regulator and the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria invite you to the 11th International conference of information commissioners (ICIC 2019).

Centre for Human Rights Welcomes Constitutional Court’s Judgment on the invalidity of the disbandment of the SADC tribunal

Posted on December 17, 2018

On 11 December 2018, the Constitutional Court of South Africa in the matter between Law Society of South Africa and Others v. The President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, upheld the 1 March 2018 decision of the Northern Gauteng High Court that the President’s decision and...

University of Pretoria awards honorary doctorate to Justice Dikgang Moseneke

Posted on December 11, 2018

Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights Graduation Ceremony on Friday. The event, at which degrees were awarded to students in human rights, commemorated 100 years since the birth of former...