Prof. Catherine S. 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 current member from African states of the UN Working Group of experts on people of African descent, a Durban mechanism and special procedure of the Human Rights Council. She chaired the Working Group in 2022 - 2023 leading missions to the United Kingdom, Australia and Colombia, investigating the plight of Africa's diaspora. She is also a member of the African Union Committee of Experts on Reparations; 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 is most published on the right to a fair trial.