South Africa

• Amnesty International 21
• Child Soldiers International 3
• Committee to Protect Journalists 17
• Freedom House 29
• Human Rights Watch 23
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2
• International Trade Union Confederation 6
• Minority Rights Group International 6
• Reporters Without Borders 4
• UN Development Programme 1
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees 4
• United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants 13
• United States Department of Labor 11
• United States Department of State 61

• Abduction 1
• Access to procedures 1
• Anglican 7
• Animist 4
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 22
• Armed forces / Military 1
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 2
• Assemblies of God 2
• Asylum-seekers 12
• Baha'i 2
• Baptist 6
• Berber 1
• Border controls 1
• Buddhist 4
• Catholic 7
• Child labour 19
• Child prostitution 17
• Child soldiers 3
• Children's rights 32
• Children-at-risk 14
• Christian 7
• Civil and political rights 3
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 3
• Conflict situation 1
• Congregationalist 5
• Corruption 7
• Criminal justice 5
• Death in custody 3
• Death penalty 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 6
• Disabled persons 9
• Disappeared persons 15
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 19
• Domestic violence 2
• Drug trafficking 1
• Economic, social and cultural rights 16
• Effective protection 1
• Effective remedy 1
• Elections 6
• Equality before the law 2
• Extrajudicial executions 17
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 1
• Forced labour 31
• Forced marriage 3
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 26
• Freedom of assembly and association 28
• Freedom of conscience 2
• Freedom of expression 60
• Freedom of information 25
• Freedom of movement 18
• Freedom of religion 33
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gender discrimination 19
• Gender-based persecution 1
• Generalized violence 2
• Good governance 5
• HIV and AIDS 12
• Hindu 7
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 6
• Human rights activists 2
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 33
• Human rights monitors 2
• Humanitarian assistance 1
• Illegal entry 1
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 4
• Immigration Detention 2
• Impunity 7
• Independence of judiciary 4
• Indigenous persons 6
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 6
• International courts and tribunals 1
• International protection 2
• Jew 6
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 11
• Lutheran 7
• Methodist 7
• Migrants 12
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 4
• Minorities 13
• Minority rights 5
• Muslim 8
• Ndebele 1
• Opposition 1
• Oromo 1
• Orthodox Christian 6
• Pentecostal 5
• Persecution based on nationality 8
• Persecution based on political opinion 5
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 8
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 2
• Police 24
• Political parties 2
• Political situation 4
• Pre-trial detention 4
• Presbyterian 7
• Prison or detention conditions 14
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 4
• Protestant 6
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 1
• Public health 4
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 2
• Refoulement 1
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugee identity documents 1
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 2
• Refugee travel documents / CTDs 1
• Refugees 25
• Rejected asylum-seekers 1
• Religious discrimination 19
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 10
• Residence permits / Residency 2
• Returnees 1
• Right to development 1
• Right to education 7
• Right to employment 12
• Right to food 1
• Right to health 4
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rights of non-citizens 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 4
• SGBV 28
• San Bushmen 1
• Scientologist 4
• Security forces 4
• Security situation 1
• Seventh Day Adventist 6
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Social group discrimination 14
• Stateless persons 1
• Terrorism 15
• Torture 9
• Trafficking in persons 41
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Travel documents 1
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Urban refugees 1
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 27
• Women-at-risk 13
• Zulus 3

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• AlertNet - South Africa
• 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