Building Communities of Practice for Urban Refugees - South Africa Roundtable Report

As part of a global project on urban refugees, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM) hosted a roundtable on coexistence in Gauteng Province in South Africa. Globally, UNHCR recognizes that well over half of the world’s refugees and asylum seekers live in urban and peri-urban areas and that their ability to peacefully coexist in these cities is fundamental to the assurance that their physical security and human rights are protected by the hosting government. UNHCR understands that refugees and asylum seekers cannot make a living or contribute to the social, economic and cultural life of a city if they fear for their personal safety in doing so.