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.

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.

Comprehensive open access book on impact of UN human rights treaties initiated by Centre researchers is published

Posted on March 11, 2024

A momentous e-book (C Heyns, F Viljoen and R Murray (eds) The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level: Twenty Years On (Brill, 2024)) tracking and seeking to better understand the impact of the United Nation human rights treaties at the domestic level has just...

Press Statement: The Centre for Human Rights condemns the passing of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill by the Parliament of Ghana.

Posted on March 11, 2024

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria joins the voices of many human rights defenders and organisations in condemning the passing of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill by the Parliament of Ghana on 28 February 2024.