Statement from the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender and the Centre for Human Rights in recognition of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT)

Posted on May 17, 2017

17 May is the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOT), celebrated in more than 130 countries around the world.

The Pretoria University Law Press reaches milestone with launch of its 175th publication

Posted on May 17, 2017

The Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), established in 2005 and located in the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, celebrated a landmark this week, as it launched its 175th publication. On 15 May 2017, PULP hosted Doctor Malcolm Langford, who co-edited the landmark...

Renowned critical legal scholar Makau Mutua identifies steps to decolonise university curricula

Posted on May 16, 2017

In 2015, a call reverberated through South African universities. It started at Wits, moved to UCT and then to most campuses in the country. Thousands of students, at nearly every institution of higher education, demanded the decolonisation of university curricula and the radical transformation of...

Centre for Human Rights calls on African Commission to focus on intersex persons’ rights, protection and implementation

Posted on May 16, 2017

STATEMENT BY NGO WITH OBSERVER STATUS: CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, FACULTY OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA

Centre for Human Rights laments continuing human rights violations in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon

Posted on May 12, 2017

Over the past six months, the English-speaking part of Cameroon has experienced serious repression and continuous human rights violations. The crisis erupted in October 2016, following a series of sit-in strikes and non-violent actions initiated by common law lawyers and teachers’ trade...

Refresher workshop on increasing states capacity for reporting under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) in the Kingdom of Lesotho

Posted on May 11, 2017

In view of strengthening the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa (SRRWA), the Gender Unit of the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) organised a three-day refresher workshop on increasing states capacity for reporting under the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and...

Centre for Human Rights urges Zambian authorities to drop treason charges against opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema

Posted on May 11, 2017

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, expresses deep concern about the treason charge Zambia’s opposition party leader Hakainde Hichilema is facing.

Eritrea must free prize winning journalist, says UN human rights expert

Posted on May 11, 2017

GENEVA (3 May 2017) – The Government of Eritrea must free journalist Dawit Isaak who has been awarded a prestigious press freedom prize some 15 years after he was detained, a United Nations human rights expert says.