Standing in solidarity against the illegal arrest of asylum seekers, the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CORMSA), Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX), South African Refugee Led Network, supported by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) in partnership with the Scalabrini Centre, will carry out a series of coordinated pickets across South Africa on the…
In our recent interview with The New Humanitarian news, CoRMSA raised concerns over the delayed processes of asylum permits, the backlog and the growing number of rejections. According to the Immigration Act, asylum seekers are supposed to be issued with temporary permits, which gives them the right to live and work in the country, but…
CoRMSA participated and supported one of its founding member organisation Messina Legal Advice Office in Mussina, Limpopo Province, on their Project Outcome Harvesting, to collect evidence of change and assess how the project contributed to the change, on the 4th of April 2024. The support was offered in collaboration with CoRMSA’s other member organisations such…
Everyone has rights regardless of where they come from. Despite the Constitution upholding the human rights of everyone within the boarders of South Africa, the rights of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants have not been fully realised. Join us in promoting and protecting their rights!
Stalls CoRMSA displayed its information materials at its stall from the 21st to the 23rd of March 2024 at the Constitution Hill during the Human Rights Festival 2024. We met our target audiences, who flock to our stall in numbers, spoke to them and shared more information about our works. We distributed a lot of…
In honour of the Human Rights Month, CoRMSA is attending a 3-day National Conference on Human Rights in South Africa from 18-20 March 2024, at Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre in Johannesburg, organised by the department of Justice and Correctional Services. The conference aims to uphold and implement the South African Constitution, and to commemorate…
Visit us at our stall at the Human Rights Festival from 21 – 23 March 2024 at the Constitution Hill in Braamfontein, Johannesburg to learn more about our work and get responses to all your questions. Your chance to meet us in person! Your Rights, our priority! #HumanRightsFestival2024
CoRMSA joined the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of South Africa, Embassy of Finland and the Norwegian Embassy in Pretoria to commemorate International Women’s Day through promoting social cohesion, unity and human rights of all women regardless of their nationalities or race. Various government officials and…
CoRMSA Team is in Cape Town attending a Programmatic Planning Meeting with Actors in Cooperation.
We hosted the Kindernothilfe (KNH) delegation from German at CoRMSA offices for project assessment on the 26th of February 2024, alongside the youth from Joburg Child Welfare and Leratong Advice Centre. The purpose of the visit was to learn more about CoRMSA’s KNH-funded work and the issues that CoRMSA is engaging with. Thank you KNH…