President of Supreme Court of Appeal Maya delivers Helen Kanzira Lecture on maternal health at University of Venda

Posted on September 25, 2018

President of the South African Supreme Court of Appeal on 19 September 2018 delivered the annual Helen Kanzira Memorial Lecture on maternal health at the School of Law at the University of Venda (UNIVEN). This event is co-hosted annually by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria,...

Casual Day: Celebrating everyday heroes with disabilities

Posted on September 07, 2018

For the last 22 years, on the first Friday of every September, South Africans from all works of life have celebrated Casual Day. Casual Day is a leading fundraising and awareness campaign for persons with disabilities and a flagship project of the National Council of and for Persons with...

Invitation: PULP Book launch - What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities

Posted on August 23, 2018

What is Africanness: Contesting nativism in culture, race and sexualities is a monograph that aims...

Winners of FACES 2018: The African Student Cellphone Film Competition

Posted on August 15, 2018

Jenira Ferreira Wins Faces African Student Cellphone Film Competition

Centre for Human Rights attends the opening ceremony of the Pan-African Parliament

Posted on May 10, 2018

The Centre for Human Rights established a partnership with PAP through a Memorandum of Understanding which was signed on 27 October 2017.

Queer Space Collective Book Drive: Call for donation of queer literature

Posted on May 09, 2018

Donate used or brand new queer literature to the Queer Library

Students on the Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) programme at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, recently visited the African human rigfhts icon Dr Vera Chirwa.

Posted on May 09, 2018

HRDA students at the Centre for Human Rights visitchuman rights icon Dr Vera Chirwa.

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2018: Film screening and ‘I am Woman’ photo exhibition

Posted on March 09, 2018

In celebration of International Women’s Day 2018, the Women’s Rights Unit of the Centre for Human Rights in collaboration with the Department of Library Services, University of Pretoria collaborated to screen the film, Queen of Katwe, and also revealed the ‘I Am Woman’...