South Africa

• Case Law 67

• 1951 Refugee Convention 1
• 1969 OAU Convention 1
• Access to procedures 10
• Administrative law 2
• Airports 1
• Appeal / Right to appeal 7
• Asylum policy 1
• Asylum-seekers 2
• Border controls 3
• Burden of proof 2
• Citizenship / Nationality law 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Credibility assessment 1
• Crimes against humanity 1
• Criminal justice 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Eritreans 1
• Ethiopians 1
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 2
• Exclusion clauses 1
• Expedited procedures 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 1
• Fresh / New claim 1
• Grounds for persecution 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 3
• Immigration Detention 11
• Immigration law 5
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 5
• Mental health 1
• Migrants 1
• One-child policy / Family planning 1
• Passports 2
• Persecution based on political opinion 3
• Pre-entry procedures 1
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reception 6
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 15
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 6
• Refugees sur place 2
• Registration 6
• Rejected asylum-seekers 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 1
• Resettlement 1
• Residence permits / Residency 1
• Right to employment 2
• Right to health 1
• Right to life 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 14
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 1
• Standard of proof 1
• Terrorism 1
• Tigreans 1
• Torture 1
• Well-founded fear of persecution 1
• Witchcraft 1
• Work permits 1

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• Amnesty International - South Africa
• Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)
• Council of Europe, Venice Commission: Constitutional Courts (Links)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - South Africa
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - South Africa
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - South Africa
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC regional delegation in Pretoria
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - South Africa
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - South Africa
• ReliefWeb - South Africa
• UNHCR - South Africa
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - South Africa
• United States Department of State - South Africa
• World Health Organization (WHO) - South Africa