CoRMSA coordinated and facilitated a Community Dialogue on health rights and the effectiveness of South African Public Health systems in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province and Lehurutshe in North West Province. The Dialogue focused on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and social determinants of health including the positives and negatives of our health systems. Various participants from…
CoRMSA, in partnership with Tshwane Leadership Foundation (TLF), commemorated the diverse cultures in South Africa including asylum seekers, refugees, and migrant cultures where various cultures showcased their cultural dances, music and poetry in honour of the Heritage Month. The objective was to promote social cohesion among different communities.
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CoRMSA participated at the eNCA news Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on migration issues in Johannesburg alongside ANC representative, Home Affairs, Operation Dudula, and other civil society organisations. “The Department of Home Affairs needs to regularise all the undocumented migrants, ” argued CoRMSA
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.
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