Information Sources

Information Booklets
The booklets aim to guide asylum seekers and refugee through asylum procedure and the rights that are available to refugees as well as the systems that have been put in place to assist refugees.

• Children's Rights booklet
• Detention booklet
• General Information booklet

Guide to sourcing Country of Origin Information & Refugee Case Law

• Refugee Rights Unit Guide to COI and Case Law

  The guide lists selected web-sites, which are helpful sources for country of origin information, obtaining general refugee-related research and finding refugee case law.

Commentary

• Refugee Rights Unit Submissions on the Immigration Amendment Bill(32-2010)
• Memorandum on the Nairobi Code and the UNHCR Code of Conduct by Mattew Budow

SAFER 2015

• Review of the structure of the Legal System & Courts of South Africa 
• SASSA: Social Assistance;
• Implementation of the DVA of 1998;

SAFER 2014

• Review of the structure of the Legal System & Courts of South Africa;
• SASSA: Social Assistance;
• ARESTA's Community Education Campaign;

SAFER July 2012

• Review of the structure of the Legal System & Courts of South Africa;
• ARESTA's Community Education Campaign;
• Functions and Duties of the Public Protector;

SAFER September 2011

• Review of the structure of tehe Legal System & Courts of  South Africa;
• Right to Social Security;
• Overview of the South African Human Rights Commission;

Social Worker training materials

The Project utilised the following materials in training workshops on Unaccompanied and Separated Foreign Children in South Africa conducted on 18 & 19 July 2011:-

•  PowerPoint Presentation;
• DSD Guidelines on Separated & Unacompanied Minors;
• UCT Standard Operating Procedures on Unaccompanied Foreign Children;