Reflections on South African foreign policy position on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Posted on March 22, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Department of Public Law at the University of Pretoria, held a panel discussion to reflect on South Africa's foreign policy, against the background of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The panel discussion was presented in a hybrid format on 17...

Human Rights Day: an opportunity to remember, reflect and rethink

Posted on March 21, 2022

Two Mondays, 22 years apart On Monday 21 March 1960, South Africans protesting a race-based and discriminatory pass-law system converged at a police station in Sharpeville. Their peaceful protest was met with state violence, leading to the death of an estimated 69 people. Today, on this Monday...

Invitation: Opening Ceremony of Human Rights Master’s Programmes

Posted on March 10, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights cordially invites you to the Opening Ceremony of Human Rights Master’s Programmes. On this occasion, students on the Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa, Multidisciplinary Human Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Rights programmes in Africa will be...

Call for Papers: African Human Rights Yearbook Volume 6 (2022)

Posted on March 10, 2022

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child are pleased to announce the call for papers for the sixth volume of the African Human Rights Yearbook (AHRY).

Press Statement: Centre for Human Rights Calls on African states to speed up ratification of the African Disability Protocol

Posted on March 08, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, welcomes the recently improved pace of ratification of the 2018 Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa (African Disability Protocol).

Call for Submissions: Experiences of African LGBTIQ+ persons in South Africa (Deadline Extended)

Posted on March 08, 2022

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria is calling for submissions for a book publication on the experiences of African LGBTIQ+ persons in South Africa, to be released in 2022.

Another UP Law student, Elisa Rinaldi, obtains master of laws with distinction!

Posted on March 08, 2022

The Faculty of Law (UP Law) at the University of Pretoria (UP) announces with pride and congratulates Elisa Rinaldi for obtaining a master of laws degree with distinction at the end of 2021.

Annual Advanced Short Course on Sexual Minority Rights in Africa highlights ongoing difficulties that people within the LGBTIQ+ community in Africa are still confronted with

Posted on March 01, 2022

The Advanced Human Rights Courses (AHRC) and the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) Units at the Centre for Human Rights (the ‘Centre’), University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted the 2022 edition of its annual short course on Sexual...