Press Statement: The Centre for Human Rights calls for renewed legal commitment to refugee protection in Africa on World Refugee Day

Posted on June 20, 2025

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the end of 2024 an estimated 123,2 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide. This sobering figure reflects the devastating impacts of conflict, persecution, environmental disasters, and widespread human rights...

Tuks law student is fast in Esports and also in the cockpit of jets

Posted on June 12, 2025

To say Ronald Wheeldon is an adrenaline junkie would not be an exaggeration. When the Tuks law student is not sitting in lecture halls or studying, he is likely to be zipping through the air at 1000 kilometres per hour. Wheeldon is also building a reputation as a formidable dualist in Varsity...

UP Law Faculty Festival 2025: A celebration of community and careers

Posted on May 15, 2025

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Law recently rolled out the red carpet for its much-anticipated Faculty Festival 2025, held on 29 and 30 April at the Law Building. With its glamorous Hollywood theme, the two-day celebration brought together students, staff, alumni, and legal...

Africa’s foremost comparative constitutional scholar, Charles Manga Fombad, honoured at Future Africa

Posted on November 12, 2024

The scholarship of Professor Charles Fombad provides important guidance to address contemporary challenges to constitutionalism in Africa and around the world.

An African Cedar Falls - In Memoriam Prof Michelo Hansungule

Posted on September 16, 2024

Michelo Kennedy Hansungule was Professor of Human Rights Law at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, South Africa from 2004 up to his retirement a few years ago.

Op-Ed: What you need to know about Botswana’s elections expected to take place in October this year

Posted on August 12, 2024

The government of Botswana should take steps to address gaps in the legal framework such as fixing of the election date, finalisation of the constitution review process and state funding of political parties which may cause political instability in the future if not resolved.

Centre for Human Rights holds the 9th edition of the capacity building workshop on strategic litigation and advocacy for LGBTIQ+ activists in Africa

Posted on August 07, 2024

The capacity building workshop aims to enhance the skills of experienced African activists in strategic litigation and advocacy towards the protection of sexual and gender minorities in Africa.

Department of Jurisprudence research seminar probes the enduring legacy of water in Southern Africa in a discussion titled Fluid Empires: Histories of Environment and Sovereignty in Southern Africa, 1750-1900

Posted on November 03, 2023

On the 23rd of October 2023, a captivating research seminar titled "Fluid Empires: Histories of Environment and Sovereignty in Southern Africa, 1750-1900" presented by Anjuli Webster, an historian specialising in southern African empires, marked the culmination of a series of thought-provoking...