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The Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, presented the 2026 edition of the Advanced Human Rights Course on the African Human Rights System in Comparative Perspectives from 20 to 24 April 2026.

Offered in a hybrid format, the one-week course brought together participants both in the Centre’s classroom and online via Zoom. Forming part of the Centre’s Advanced Human Rights Courses, the programme explored the institutions, instruments and processes that shape the African human rights system, while placing them in conversation with other regional human rights systems.

From 9 to 14 March 2026, the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, and the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, hosted the Advanced Human Rights Course on Business and Human Rights in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, with online participation via Zoom. The six-day intensive short course formed part of the Centre’s Advanced Human Rights Courses programme and was designed to deepen knowledge and scholarship on business and human rights in Africa.

On 26th April 2023, the Centre for Human Rights organized a Webinar to present its report findings on the African Development Bank's (AfDB) response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The objective of the webinar was to present the study and evaluate the AfDB's response to the public health and socio-economic challenges posed by the pandemic. The webinar also aimed to identify measures to enhance civil society's capacity to monitor AfDB activities to ensure transparency and accountability for AfDB-funded projects. 

The Centre for Human Rights cordially invites you to a webinar on Monitoring the African Development Bank response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa.

The University of Dayton Human Rights Center, in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and the Free State Centre for Human Rights of the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, will host a joint convening, bringing together the 2023 Social Practice of Human Rights Conference and the 6th International Conference on the Right to Development, which will be held for the first time outside of the African continent.

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