This week the UCT Refugee Rights Unit in partnership with UNHCR hosted a four-day virtual training on ending statelessness in southern Africa.

Dr. Fatima Khan, Director of the Refugee Rights Unit, featured in the University of Cape Town's Women's Month celebrations.

UCT Refugee Rights Unit Celebrates World Refugee Day by distributing practical guides that are intended to assist refugees, legal practitioners, social workers and government officials in understanding and ensuring the rights of refugees are respe

Fatima Khan, Director of the Refugee Rights Unit, presented a keynote address at the Refugee Law Initiative's 5th Annual Conference, Aging Gracefully? The 1951 Convention at 70.

This month saw an important development in the years-long campaign and litigation to compel the Department of Home Affairs to fully reopen the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (RRO).

The Department of Home Affairs will be renewing refugee and asylum permits that have expired from 26 February 2020. The process is straightforward and is completed via email to the relevant Refugee Reception Office (RRO). The RRO will respond

The UCT Refugee Rights Unit (RRU), as a member of the ASILES project, contributed towards the first ASILE Forum to assess the European Commission’s Pact on Migration and A

The Uct Refugee Rights Unit and the University at large is hosting the International Association of Refugee and

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is conducting five-day training course, in partnership with the

Popo Mfubu attended Second Biennial Conference for Law and Society in Africa in Cairo, Egypt hosted j

  On Monday 29 April 2019 renowned refugee law scholar and University of Michigan Law School Professor James Hathaway sat down for a Conversation on Refugee Law Challenges in Cape Town with the UNHCR, members of the South Afric

On 30 January 2018 James Chapman presented a workshop at the Adonis Musati Project offices in Cape Town. The workshop was attended by twenty community leaders working towards furthering the rights of refugees in South Africa. 

Information Sharing Session The Refugee Rights Unit hosted a community information sharing session at the University of Cape Town. The session was attended by representatives of the Adonis Musati Project and the Woma

On 29 January 2018, the Refugee Rights Unit represented by James Chapman met with the Red Cross Children's Hospital Developmental Paediatric Team. At the training session James Chapman discussed issues encountered by refugees and asylum seekers con

We are commemorating the World Refugee Day and acknowledging the circumstances and plight of refugees. We also wish to celebrate the successes and triumphs of refugees and asylum seekers who have persevered and in some cases thrived, despite adversity.

The Refugee Rights Unit recently presented a paper on Hidden, Irregular and Forced Migration at a conference on migration organised by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.  Presented by Ncumisa Will

The refugee crisis in Europe has not only highlighted the limitations of dated international laws on asylum seekers, but different interpretations of the EU’s