Member, UN Working Group of experts on people of African descent

Dr Catherine Namakula is a justice scholar at the University of the Free State, where she founded and convenes the Africa Reparation Hub. She is also the member from African states of the UN Working Group of experts on people of African descent. She chaired the Working Group in 2022 - 2023 leading missions to the UK, Australia and most recently Columbia, investigating the plight of Africa's diaspora. She was also a delegate on the Group's fact-finding missions to Switzerland, Portugal and Norway. She authored resolution 543 on Africa's reparation agenda and the human rights of people of African descent in the diaspora and people of African descent worldwide, which was adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights in December 2022. She has written a critique of the Germany-Namibia Accord on colonial genocide and has a spectrum of research works on the right to a fair trial.