Our Team
Our team consists of both the board of directors who act as policy advisors, and the personnel on the ground who actually run our day to day programme activities.
The Board of Directors of the Centre for Human Rights and Development
Our board is drawn from a panel of jurists and academics from across the globe, who have a deep interest in human rights. The global spread of the board ensures that CHR’s programmes and policies are balanced and up to date with developments both in the human rights sphere and in the international legal order. The following individuals serve on the board of CHR.
Innocent Maja (Zimbabwe)
Maja is the Senior Partner of a Zimbabwean law firm styled Maja and Associates Legal Practitioners. He is also an IBJ Fellow for Zimbabwe, the Executive Director of Centre for Minority Rights and Development Zimbabwe, a Legal Director of the Anti-Piracy Organisation of Zimbabwe and sits on various Boards as a Trustee including Centre for Human Rights and Development Swaziland, Domboshawa Theological College Trust, Glory Givers International, The Mozambican Community in Zimbabwe Trust and Shiloah Zimbabwe Trust. He holds a Bachelor of Laws Honors Degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria and is currently pursuing an LLD. He is also a Lecturer in the Private Law Department with the University of Zimbabwe’s Faculty of Law.
Angelo Dube (Swaziland)
Dube is a founding member of CHR. He teaches Administrative Law, Public International Law and Human Rights Law at the University of Swaziland. He has a strong research interest in areas such as forced evictions, disability rights, international criminal law, gender, environmental law, democratization, and the inter-play between indigenous legal systems and human rights. Dube holds law degrees from the University of Swaziland and the University of Pretoria, plus certificates in diverse fields such as arbitration, environmental law, socio-economic rights, international law, trade law and biotechnology. Dube’s engagement with civil society dates back to his law school days in Swaziland, working in diverse fields such as HIV/AIDS, youth issues, environmental issues, to his stay at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Africa Office) in Accra Ghana. Dube has also served under Justice T.H. Madala in the Constitutional Court of South Africa and today serves on the board of directors of the Centre for Minority Rights and Development (Cemiride – Zimbabwe). His publications include work in the fields of disability rights, forced evictions in Africa, the Lesotho legal system and locating the concept of human rights in an African context. Dube is also an advocate of the High Court of Swaziland.
Anthony C. Diala (Nigeria)
Diala served the cause of human rights at the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Between 2004 and 2006, he worked in the Justice and Peace Commission, Nigeria. As Human Rights Programme Manager, he coordinated legal aid for hundreds of detainees, served on government and civil society policy committees, and taught human rights to students, law enforcement agencies and rights advocacy organisations. Diala also served as Awareness Committee Chairman on the Access to Justice (now Security, Justice and Growth) Programme of the DFID, British Council, Nigeria. An advocate of Nigeria’s Supreme Court since 2004, he is a visiting lecturer at the Law Faculty of the Enugu State University, a newspaper columnist, and a writer. He holds an LL.M from the University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Carmen Torregrosa (Spain)
Torregrosa is a lecturer in the University of Alicante in Spain, where she teaches amongst others, International Law and European Law.
Andile Mpanza (Swaziland)
Mpanza is a founding member of CHR. She holds a commercial diploma and degree from the University of Swaziland. She also holds certificates in human rights, arbitration, public finance, international trade and gender. She has worked extensively in the commercial sector both in Swaziland and in South Africa, where she worked with business development companies in Mpumalanga and Gauteng. Her interests are the interplay between business and human rights, in particular the gender aspect.
Alfred Magagula (Swaziland)
Magagula is a founding member of CHR. He holds law degrees from the University of Swaziland. He has worked extensively in the NGO sector in Swaziland, in diverse fields like HIV/AIDS, environmental law and management, labour advisory services and human rights.
CHR Personnel
CHR currently relies on interns retained on a long-term basis.
