CoRMSA facilitated an Annual meeting of trainers at a provincial level in Durban, KwaZulu Natal where the youth trainers from Free State Province met with the youth trainers from Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal Province. The aim was to deepen various issues such as child rights, access to documentation, and statelessness. All children must know their rights…
We participated in a 2-day GBV symposium in Pretoria at the Embassy of Sweden, focusing on the prevention of GBV which included the participation of various experts on Human Rights and GBV issues. Part of the solutions included educating the media on how to report on rape issues.
CoRMSA is currently at the Constitutional Court as an amicus curie on the controversial sections of the “abandoned provisions” in the Refugees Amendment Act . “These provisions infringe the rights of asylum seekers,” CoRMSA
We commemorated International Youth Day with children and youth in Welkom, Free State Province through a discussion on the challenges faced by youth at a global scale such as access to education, documentation and healthcare, and unemployment, among others, and ways to overcome them.
CoRMSA and its member organisations met with the Department of Home Affairs at Desmond Tutu Refugee Reception Center in Marabastad, Pretoria, to discuss the challenges faced by asylum seekers, refugees and migrants when applying for their documents, both online and in-person. Both parties proposed and agreed on various solutions. We hope to see a change…
National Women’s Day (Girl Child) Celebrations – Secunda , Mpumalanga Province
We celebrated the bravery of the 1956 Women who fought for the human rights of all women including asylum seekers, refugees and migrant women with the girls in Secunda, Mpumalanga Province. Happy Women’s Day to all Women in their Diversity!