A/HRC/17/33/Add.4
Annex
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of
migrants, Jorge Bustamante, on his mission to South Africa
(24 January - 1 February 2011)
Contents
Paragraphs
Page
I.
Introduction.............................................................................................................
1–2
4
II.
General background: the migration phenomenon in South Africa..........................
3–5
4
III.
Normative and institutional framework for the protection of the
human rights of migrants.........................................................................................
6–21
5
IV.
V.
VI.
A.
International legal framework.........................................................................
6–9
5
B.
National legal and institutional framework.....................................................
10–21
6
Good practices.........................................................................................................
22–34
8
A.
Constitutional and legal guarantees ................................................................
22–24
8
B.
Absence of anti-immigrant stance in political discourse ................................
25–27
8
C.
Initiative to regularize Zimbabwean nationals................................................
28–34
9
Major challenges in the protection of the human rights of migrants .......................
35–72
10
A.
Absence of a clear and comprehensive immigration policy ...........................
36–45
10
B.
Lack of data and statistics...............................................................................
46–51
12
C.
Arrest and detention of foreign nationals........................................................
52–59
13
D.
Access to health care ......................................................................................
60–65
15
E.
Unaccompanied foreign children....................................................................
66–72
16
Conclusions and recommendations .........................................................................
73–88
17
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