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#FarFromHome: Marc

6 November 2020

Welcome to our global #FarFromHome series: reflections on the time of Covid-19 from people who are are far from their family and home-country. We hope this brings comfort and reassurance. We chat to Marc, who lives in South Africa and is from DRC.

Lessons in Adaptability with Women’s Platform

3 November 2020

At the center of Cape Town sits Green Market Square - a bustling market filled with curios from all over the African continent. It is a magnet for Cape Town’s tourists, who typically number over 5 million per year. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, South Africa went into lockdown: borders were closed, tourists stopped coming, and many market vendors were left with no source of income at all. Some of these market vendors are members of Scalabrini’s Women’s Platform. With the need to adapt and provide for their families, they came together and quickly tapped into the demand for masks.

Press Release: Scalabrini’s ‘abandonment’ court case challenges constitutionality of South African refugee laws

28 October 2020

Sections of the refugee law now mean that asylum-seekers who's documentation expires for thirty days or more face arrest and deportation, as their claims would be considered 'abandoned'. These people – who have sought refuge and safety in South Africa – could be deported to danger or death in their countries of origin for no reason other than they were a month late in renewing a visa. Our case seeks to declare pertinent sections of South Africa's recently changed refugee law to be set aside and declared unconstitutional.

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