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4 January 2013
allAfrica
As thousands of Zimbabweans are deported from South Africa, hundreds of migrant children awaiting deportation are being held in appalling conditions in detention facilities near Johannesburg and Musina, despite calls from legal and medical human rights groups to improve conditions.
Immigration authorities say about 43 000 Zimbabweans were deported from South Africa in 2012.
Among the deportees were accompanied and unaccompanied minors. Up to 600 unaccompanied minors were sent back to Zimbabwe by South African authorities in 2012.
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13 December 2012
The New Age Online
Tomorrow marks the end of the first round of registration for Schubart Park residents wanting to move back into the Tshwane metro-owned building.
In accordance with a Constitutional Court order the metro has arranged two rounds of registration for previous tenants of the high-rise building on the western side of the Pretoria CBD.
Former tenants, who lived in Schubart Park up to and before September last year, have since Monday been able to register to move back into the building Tshwane had planned to implode.
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5 December 2012
Ground Up
Asylum seekers in Cape Town are struggling because their First National Bank (FNB) accounts have been frozen. The bank insists on seeing unexpired asylum documents every three to six months to keep bank accounts active. Many asylum seekers have to wait up to six months for their documents to be approved by Home Affairs and end up not being able to provide the documents FNB insists upon.
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27 November 2012
Voice of America
Migration specialist Roni Amit calls South Africa's policy towards migrants in recent years "the securitization of immigration."
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27 November 2012
IOL News
Rights groups voiced fears on Monday that the Zimbabwean authorities would launch a crackdown on rights activists ahead of a referendum and elections scheduled early next year.
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27 November 2012
allAfrica
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has published today the report “Zimbabwe: Ongoing risks for human rights defenders in the context of political deadlock and pre-electoral period”.
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26 November 2012
News24
A new report says Zimbabwe punitively uses its laws and beatings by security forces to suppress human rights activists in the nation.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, part of a French rights organisation, released the report on Monday.
The report details the abuse of several human rights activists, including a woman abducted from her home, who was then beaten and tortured by security agents.
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26 November 2012
AFP
Rights groups voiced fears Monday that the Zimbabwean authorities would launch a crackdown on rights activists ahead of a referendum and elections scheduled early next year.
The "situation of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe remains grim as their operating space can be further shrunk" in the run-up to polls, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said.
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26 November 2012
The Seattle Times
Zimbabwe uses laws and beatings by security forces to suppress human rights activists in the southern African nation ahead of elections planned for next year, according to a report released Monday.
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26 November 2012
Business Day
Zimbabwean rights groups fear a dramatic increase in violence and torture aimed at human rights activists in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections early next year.
In a research report released on Monday, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation against Torture, warn that Zimbabwean security police have been acting with impunity against activists.
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