Call for applications: All Africa Course on International Humanitarian Law 2022

Posted on July 22, 2022

The Pretoria Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross together with the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa and the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Pretoria will be presenting the nineteenth All Africa Course on International...

Webinar invitation: Protecting persons displaced in the context of climate change and disasters in Africa

Posted on July 19, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, in partnership with the UNHCR Regional Office for Southern Africa, cordially invites you to the webinar on k‘Protecting persons displaced in the context of climate change and disasters in Africa’.

Call for Abstracts: 5th International Conference on the Right to Development

Posted on July 18, 2022

Fifth International Conference on the Right to Development under the theme ‘Realising the Right to Development: Between coups d’état and the syndrome of a life presidency in Africa’.

Webinar Invitation: Africa Online Regional Consultation on the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation, including in emergencies

Posted on June 27, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights cordially invites stakeholders including States parties, right-holders under the Convention, principally persons with disabilities through their representative organizations, other civil society organizations, independent monitoring mechanisms, national human rights...

How Development Finance Institutions Can Support Renewable Energy in the Southern African Development Community

Posted on June 27, 2022

In November 2020, a report by the SADC Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (SACREEE); Center for Human Rights (CHR); the Boston University Global Development Policy Center (GDP Center) and others found the SADC region could potentially attain full energy access and 53 percent...

Press Statement: Centre for Human Rights condemns disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice

Posted on June 27, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, condemns the disbarring of lawyer Muzi Simelane by Eswatini Chief Justice Bheki Maphalala. The Chief Justice disbarred Mr Simelane by way of notice in April 2018 on the basis of alleged contempt. Since he was banned from...

Invitation: Hybrid Conference on the Rights of the Child, Domestication and Application of the African Children’s Charter

Posted on June 20, 2022

We are pleased to invite you to participate in a hybrid conference on children’s rights organised by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. The conference is scheduled, to take place from 28 - 29 June 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa. 

Centre and the African Commission host PALOP countries for a regional workshop on state reporting under the Maputo Protocol and the African Charter

Posted on June 16, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights (the Centre) in collaboration with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) are hosting a hybrid workshop with five PALOPs on using the state reporting process to monitor the implementation of the rights contained in the African...