Asylum Seekers
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Foreigners seek UN intervention after Durban police station standoff
About 200 foreigners who say they are fleeing attacks linked to anti-immigrant groups have called for United Nations intervention after spending two days outside Durban Central…
Court orders government, police to block vigilantes from two clinics — and put up warnings at entrances
The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…
Female & Guardian | ‘Policies skewed against women’
UN report finds discrimination against women in land and housing programmes
The dark underbelly of immigration fraud in state institutions
The government must address the corruption surrounding the management of undocumented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees by home affairs officials, the police and the defence…
Beware UK ‘cash for asylum seekers’ deal with Rwanda
The ‘stop the ships’ law shows how countries like Britain can evade their international responsibility to host refugees by shipping them off to Africa in exchange for…
Motsoaledi withdrawing South Africa from international refugees treaties is not a solution
The country must chart a humane policy for refugees that flows from the spirit and objects of the post-apartheid constitutional order
Families trucked off to prison in Malawi crackdown on expatriates
Refugees ‘hounded like dogs’ by the police and army despite protests by the United Nations Refugee Agency and civil society
High court declares sections of Refugees Act unconstitutional
The sections render asylum seekers ‘undocumented’ if they do not renew visas within one month of expiry date
UK set for ruling on plan to deport migrants to Rwanda
Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions
Dutch expected to apologise for 250 years of slavery
Prime minister expected to give speech on ‘meaningful moment’
The children of asylum seekers in South Africa have a right to education
Not only has South Africa signed various international conventions, its own Constitution gives children this right
The UK’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism
Moving unwanted arrivals out of sight grants political footholds to richer nations in host regions
How to apply for the Covid-19 R350 grant
Asylum seekers with valid permits and caregivers will now also be allowed to apply for the reinstituted social relief of distress grant
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World Refugee Day: A call for inclusion as 82-million people are displaced
More than 11-million people were forced to flee their countries in 2020
Fence at Cape Town refugee camp removed, leaving people vulnerable
Services provided by the City of Cape Town and the government are gradually drying up