Greener. Smarter. Fairer: UP’s Sustainable Development Report showcases major progress

Posted on October 28, 2025

PRETORIA – The University of Pretoria’s (UP) recently published 2024 Sustainable Development Report outlines the sustainable development issues the University is systematically addressing – including advancing food production, research in cancer and infectious diseases, climate...

Call for Papers | Evidence Matters Before Regional Human Rights Courts: The African Court in Critical and Comparative Perspective

Posted on July 21, 2025

A Conference in honour of the 20th Anniversary of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, co-hosted by DISSECT: Evidence in International Human Rights Adjudication (ERC, Ghent University) and the Centre for Human Rights and NRF Chair in International Constitutional Law, University...

Invitation: Christof Heyns Memorial Lecture

Posted on July 11, 2025

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and the Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College, Oxford University invite you to the Third Christof Heyns Memorial Lecture. This lecture will be held at the Auditorium, Bonavero Institute, Mansfield College, Oxford University.

University of Pretoria and Vodacom Bulls collaborate on UP Giving Month to fight student hunger and financial exclusion

Posted on July 04, 2025

UP is calling on alumni, partners and the public to support students facing hunger and financial hardship

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...

African-Caribbean Dialogue on Justice through Reparations held at University of Pretoria as part of AU Year on Reparations

Posted on June 10, 2025

A conference on the African-Caribbean Dialogue on Justice through Reparations was held on 2 and 3 June 2025 at the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa campus. The event was organised and hosted as a collaboration between University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights and South...

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.