Programme News
6 December 2012
(Press release)
North Gauteng High Court confirms the importance of confidentiality in hearings before the Refugee Appeal Board. The court also declared the 2003 Rules of the Refugee Appeal Board invalid. See attached judgment
6 December 2012
(News)
Migration specialist Roni Amit calls South Africa's policy towards migrants in recent years "the securitisation of immigration".
Amit, who is a senior researcher at the Centre for African Migration and Society at Johannesburg’s Wits University, says "there’s just this increased sense that we need to protect our borders and stop people from coming in. There’s...
3 December 2012
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on Monday briefed Parliament’s portfolio committee on home affairs on the escalating number of stateless people in South Africa.
Statelessness is caused by state succession, gaps in various countries’ law (both internally and as states relate to one another), denationalisation, dual nationalities, unaccompanied minors and mixed migration, a...
3 December 2012
(News)
The government has drawn up plans to build refugee “camps” along South Africa’s borders. This was revealed in papers submitted to the high court in Cape Town - and has prompted an outcry by human rights groups. The current policy is that refugees or asylum-seekers may live freely among local residents. But now it appears the government is revising this policy, with at least 52...
3 October 2012
(News)
27 September 2012
(News)
25 September 2012
(Press release)
19 September 2012
(Press release)
5 September 2012
(News)
Press Release: Illegal immigration detention of children on the increase in South Africa
Johannesburg, 4 September 2012 – The Global Campaign to End Child Immigration Detention, launched on 21 May, is focusing on South Africa during the month of September. South Africa is one of the six states that the Campaign is targeting during 2012. South African law prohibits the detention of...
29 August 2012
(Press release)
ICAED Statement on the International Day of the Disappeared
30 August 2012 – The international community commemorates the International Day of the Disappeared.
On this day, the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) and its 41 member organizations, pay tribute to all the victims of enforced disappearance throughout the world in various ways.
The...