Consortium for Refugees & Migrants in South Africa

The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), formerly known as the National Consortium for Refugee Affairs, is a registered Non Profit Organisation tasked with promoting and protecting refugee and migrant rights. It is comprised of a number of member organisations including legal practitioners, research units, and refugee and migrant communities.

 

The Consortium’s mandate involves strengthening the partnerships between refugee and migrant service providers to provide improved co-ordination of activities. This includes developing working relationships with other concerned organisations to provide an effective forum for advocacy and action.

 

The Consortium liaises with government and other stakeholders to keep them informed of the views of our members. The Consortium also provides a centralised referral system for the media and other practitioners through which it can refer those dealing with specific aspects of the sector to the organisations and individuals most qualified to assist.

 

Latest News

Refugee Reception Offices Schedule

As per the Department of Home Affairs website and media reports, CoRMSA would like to advise its valued refugee and asylum seeker community that the Department of Home Affairs’ Director …

Vacancy: Finance Officer

The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa is a non-profit organisation which coordinates a network of organisations seeking to promote the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants …

End Detention for Children

Human Rights Day 21 March 2012- Campaign launch: End Child Detention

This is the start of a global campaign to end the detention of immigrant children.  Focus countries include: Australia, Greece, …

Lawyers for Human Rights: Law and Me Series

The Law & Me are FREE workshops to help asylum seekers and refugees engage with the laws of South Africa. Everything we do, from working and driving to having relationships …

Court orders re-opening of the PE Refugee Reception Office

The High Court in Port Elizabeth today handed down a judgement in which it declared the Department of Home Affairs’ decision to close the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office to be unlawful …

CoRMSA emails are now working

We are happy to inform our valued constituency that our emails are now working. Thank you for your patience and once again our sincere apologises for the inconveniences this technical …

Email problems

We would like to apologize to our valued constituency for the problems we have been encountering with our CoRMSA emails. The issue is being dealt with urgently and we hope that we …