South Africa: Open New Johannesburg Refugee Center

The South African government should quickly open a new refugee reception center in Johannesburg, Human Rights Watch said today. The closing of the existing center on June 1, 2011, will make it even harder for asylum seekers to lodge claims in the country’s chronically overburdened asylum system, which increases asylum seekers’ risk of being caught without the required permit to stay in the country and deported, Human Rights Watch said.