Collaborating institutions
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), formerly known as the National Consortium for Refugee Affairs, is a registered Non Profit Organisation tasked with promoting and protecting refugee and migrant rights. It is comprised of a number of member organisations including legal practitioners, research units, and refugee and migrant communities.
The Consortium’s mandate involves strengthening the partnerships between refugee and migrant service providers to provide improved co-ordination of activities. This includes developing working relationships with other concerned organisations to provide an effective forum for advocacy and action.
The Consortium liaises with government and other stakeholders to keep them informed of the views of our members. The Consortium also provides a centralised referral system for the media and other practitioners through which it can refer those dealing with specific aspects of the sector to the organisations and individuals most qualified to assist.
Lawyers for Human Rights is an independent human rights organisation with a thirty-year track record of human rights activism and public interest litigation in South Africa. LHR uses the law as a positive instrument for change and to deepen the democratisation of the South African society. To this end, it provides free legal services to vulnerable, marginalised and indigent individuals and communities, both non-national and South African, who are victims of unlawful infringements of their Constitutional rights.
The SA Human Rights Commission is pleased to announce that the former Public Protector, Adv Lawrence Mushwana has been elected Chairperson of the Commission, while Commissioner Pregs Govender who was appointed in January and has been chairing the Commission in the interim, was elected Deputy Chairperson. Adv Mushwana and Commissioner Govender will be ably assisted in their duties by fellow Commissioners: Ms Lindiwe Mokate; Adv Bokankatla Malatji; Ms Janet Love; Dr Danny Titus. Adv Mushwana and most of the new Commissioners will assume their duties with effect from November 1st and in terms of the Human Rights Commission Act they will serve for a seven year term.
One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in 1996 to promote awareness of migration-development linkages in SADC. SAMP conducts applied research on migration and development issues, provides policy advice and expertise, offers training in migration policy and management, and conducts public education campaigns on migration-related issues.
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in Uppsala is a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. It promotes research and studies on Africa in the Nordic countries and co-operation between African and Nordic researchers. It also disseminates information about current African issues.
The Institute was founded in 1962. It is financed jointly by the Nordic countries and has a Programme and Research Council with members from all the Nordic countries.