NEW REPORT SHARES IMPACT OF COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS ON THE RIGHT TO SEEK ASYLUM WASHINGTON, DC -- A new report released today from Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA) and Georgetown University's...
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World + 4 more
NEW REPORT SHARES IMPACT OF COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS ON THE RIGHT TO SEEK ASYLUM WASHINGTON, DC -- A new report released today from Jesuit Refugee Service/USA (JRS/USA) and Georgetown University's...
South Africa + 1 more
“Time is not on our side,” mumbles Floyd, driver at the Jesuit Refugee Service South Africa (JRS). Marceline, the head nurse of JRS health team’s Home Based Care programme, makes a phone call from...
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“I am a woman. I am powerful, I am a role model, and I am intelligent. I have a heart of gold.” This is what one of the students of the Arrupe Women’s Skills Centre wrote when she was asked to define...
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Johannesburg, 4 June 2018 - Carl and Fartune walked into the room and Molline lit up. She was thrilled to have both JRS community health workers back in her apartment. “I prefer they stay with me the...
Johannesburg, 22 December 2017 – In South Africa, host to one of the largest populations of urban refugees in the world, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) runs two centres for women refugees and...
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Johannesburg, 23 June 2016 - Conflict, war and persecution drive people away from their homes, all too often, with only the clothes on their backs and whatever other possessions they could grab...
Johannesburg, 11 Decemeber 2014 – Faith-based organisations take from their religious traditions both strong motivations and access to a long history of thinking concerning social and political...
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Johannesburg, 21 July 2014 – Thousands of refugee women risk their lives to escape places like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where their bodies have been sexually violated as a tool of war...
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Detention and deportation of Zimbabweans costly and ineffective "South Africa does not habitually detain asylum seekers and refugees. But we are worried about the situation facing Zimbabweans in the...
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Johannesburg, 20 July 2011 – Immigration detention is extremely expensive, can harm the health and wellbeing of those detained and has been found not to be effective at deterring undocumented...
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Johannesburg, 20 June 2011 – Over the last 60 years, the UN Geneva convention has offered millions of individuals fleeing persecution the opportunity to live in safety. The protection it provides is...
Rwanda + 1 more
Johannesburg, 11 February 2010 - Refugee documentation remains a concern in South Africa, as demonstrated recently in a legal battle in the Cape Town High Court. Refugees and asylum seekers who are...
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REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS 1. South Africa: deportations of undocumented Zimbabweans to resume Johannesburg, 16 September 2010 - At the end of the year, South Africa is to resume the deportation of...
Colombia + 7 more
(excerpts) 1. South Africa: regulation of Zimbabweans, a welcome step Johannesburg, 14 September - JRS has given a cautious welcome to the introduction of new regulations affecting Zimbabweans in...
DR Congo + 4 more
(Extract) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): plan to withdraw peacekeeping troops Rome, 5 April 2010 - A UN report proposed a plan for a three-year phased withdrawal the...
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(extract) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: JUDICIAL RESPONSE TO VIOLATIONS INSUFFICIENT On 9 September, a senior UN official for human rights described the judicial response to...
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(Extract) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS KENYA: LACK OF INTEGRATION OPPORTUNITIES EXACERBATES CRISIS According to a report by the UN news agency, IRIN, on 19 June, deteriorating security in Somalia is...
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(extract) SOME ITEMS IN THIS ISSUE REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS 1. Kenya: level of service provision insufficient in Kakuma camp "Service provision in Kakuma camp needs to be scaled up to meet the needs of...
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(excerpt) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS Democratic Republic of Congo: caution prevails despite improved security in North Kivu Caution, hope and patience are the terms used by JRS project director, Nicolas...
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(excerpt) REFUGEE NEWS BRIEFINGS South Africa: child dies in fire at Klerksoord camp On 14 February in the early hours of the morning, a six-year-old girl died in a fire which burned down the...