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Province sets new date for refugee reintegration
Original Source By Francis Hweshe The Western Cape government has acknowledged the fears expressed by some refugees over their reintegration, but says it willcontinue to work towards returning them to the communities from which they were displaced. During the xenophobic attacks in May, about 20,000…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All
Original Source Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand JOHANNESBURG, Jul 15 (IPS) – South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART)…
Author: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
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Crisis at Soetwater Camp escalates: hunger strikes and attempted suicides
08 Jun 2008 Camp must be closed immediately and the City and Province must open facilities in communities, especially the city centre and suburbs, to shelter people. Reintegration efforts are a priority. President must give the United Nations a mandate to assist refugees who wish…
Author: Treatment Action Campaign
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Court halts relocation of foreigners
Original Source by Imke van Hoorn, Zodidi Mhlana and Sapa | Johannesburg, South Africa The Johannesburg High Court has granted an urgent interdict preventing the relocation of foreigners displaced by xenophobic attacks who are being accommodated at the city’s Cleveland and Jeppe police stations, Lawyers…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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My Syrian Refugee Grandparents’ Lost America
By Christopher Oechsli Almost 115 years ago, Abraham and Camelia George left the small Syrian village of Mattan Arnouk. They sailed past the Statue of Liberty and landed on Ellis Island. They were refugees. Syrian refugees. They passed through a Manhattan neighborhood known as Little…
Author: New York Daily News
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ECRE Launches Asylum Information Database (AIDA) Website
The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) has launched the Asylum Information Database (AIDA) website, mapping asylum procedures, reception conditions and detention in 14 EU countries. The website is part of a project funded by EPIM and carried out in partnership with the Hungarian Helsinki Committee,…
Author: European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM)
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Draconian Asylum and Immigration System Needs Reform, Says Minister Shatter
By Colette Browne Justice Minister Alan Shatter has rightly decried the “inconvenient truth” that the State’s doors “were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee from persecution and death” during the Holocaust. However, maybe he should ask himself if the State would…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Centre to help foreigners opens
Lee-Anne Butler. FOREIGNERS who have settled in the Eastern Cape can now get help and support from the newly opened Refugee Rights Centre in Central. Housed in the Institute for Sustainable Government and Development at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s Bird Street campus, the centre…
Author: Weekend Post
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South Africa to ease immigration rules for Zimbabweans
by CELEAN JACOBSON South Africa is planning to ease immigration rules for the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing their country’s economic and humanitarian crises, an official said Tuesday. Home Affairs spokeswoman Siobhan McCarthy said Zimbabweans would be given a special status that allows them to stay…
Author: Associated Press Worldstream
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Lawyers fight to improve refugee facility
by Zelda Venter Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) are to approach the Pretoria High Court in a bid to force the government to improve conditions at a holding facility for refugees in Musina, or have it closed down. This follows the outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe,…
Author: Pretoria News