CoRMSA
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.
Constitution
Members
The current members of the Consortium are:
- Amnesty International
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
- Christians for Peace in Africa
- Coordinating Body of Refugee Communities
- Durban Refugee Service Providers Network
- Lawyers for Human Rights
- Refugee Pastoral Care
- Refugee Social Services
- Union of Refugee Women - Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of Witwatersrand
- Jesuit Refugee Services
- Lawyers for Human Rights
- Musina Legal Advice Centre
- Refugee Children’s Project
- Refugee Ministries Centre
- Refugee Pastoral Care
- South African Red Cross Society
- Tutumike (Cape Town refugee service provider network)
- African Disabled Refugee Organisation
- Agency of Refugee Education, Skills, Training and Advocacy
- Alliance for Refugees in South Africa
- Bonne Esperance
- Cape Town Refugee Centre
- Excelsior Empowerment Centre
- Scalabrini
- Sonke Gender Justice Network
- The Trauma Centre
- UCT Law Clinic - Southern African Centre for the Survivors of Torture
- The Black Sash
- University of Cape Town Law Clinic
- University of the Witwatersrand Law Clinic
Membership of the Consortium is open to any South African-based organisation or individual with an established record of work on behalf of refugees, asylum seekers, or other migrants in the country.
If you are interested in the activities of the Consortium or would like to know more about refugee and migrant rights in South Africa, please contact us.
CoRMSA is currently staffed by two advocacy officers, Duncan Breen and Sicel’mpilo Shange-Buthane, and an administrator, Maserame Madingwane.
CoRMSA currently receives funding from the Atlantic Philanthropies, the European Union and the Open Society Foundation.