Webinar - Building SOLIDARITY in the time of Covid-19
A new webinar: 'Building Solidarity in the time of COVID-19', is taking place on the 14th of August 2020. From 9:00-11:30, organized by Lawyers for Human Rights, Liliesleaf, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and Maverick citizen. Durign the webinar will be discussed the following topics: movement of People, Global Communicable Disease & Climate Crisis. SIHMA will also be present at the webinar with its Project Manager, James and its new intern Jeremiah.
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Female Migrants and Refugees Leaving a Positive Mark within their Communities
Over the past 60 years, there has been an increase in the number of females migrants migrating for work, education, and as the heads of the households (1). Currently, 47.9%, around 130 million of the international migrant stock are females (1). In Africa, 48% of migrants are females, with male migrants experiencing more growth in the recent years. Many news stories have warned about the possibilities of female migrants facing stronger discrimination, often having to face double discrimination...
Press Review July 2020
NATIONAL COVERAGE Covid-19 moves refugees and asylum seekers to the bottom of priorities. Maverick Citizen - 28 July 2020 In the past, South Africa was well respected for its strong rights-based legislation for refugees as well as for asylum seekers. This generosity has vanished due to the policies that seem to be parallel from the constitution. Currently, asylum seekers and refugees are facing tough moments that are arising from the...
Detention and Migration
One of the fundamentals of ensuring dignity and protection of human rights of people on the move is ensuring they are not subject to arbitrary or unlawful arrest, detention, and deportation. Migration and freedom of movement are fundamental tenants of what makes us human. Detention of people on the move, particularly for the purpose of deportation or regularising sojourn, should only be as a last resort and alternatives to detention should be prioritised....
Webinar - Economic Migration on the African Continent
A webinar about Economic Migration on the African Continent takes place on Tuesday 4th of August 2020 at 15:00 - presenting Scalabrini Centre's new research. Scalabirni centre of Cape Town is hosting a presentation on Africa's approach, through traties and policies, to continental economic migration, with a South African Perspective. The webinar will be by Shannon Guerra, a Yale University Human Rights Scholar who has been working full-time for the last two months on this research. A deeper understanding of South Africa's...
Apostleship of the Sea (AoS): 100 years of service to the seafarers
Apostleship of the Sea (AoS) also called Stella Maris of Cape Town is announcing the 100 years of Stella Maris in the service to seafarers this 04 October 2020. The Apostleship of the Sea is the pastoral care of the Catholic Church to maritime people. This apostolate began prior to 1900 by various Orders or Congregations like the Augustinians of the Assumption, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and Jesuits catering for the spiritual, social, and material...
