'Keep Your Head Down' - Unprotected Migrants in South Africa

Publisher:
Human Rights Watch
Publication Date:
28 February 2007
Tags:
Human Rights, Refugees and Displacement, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Environment

South African officials involved in the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrant workers often assault and extort money from them, and commercial farmers employing them routinely violate their basic labor rights, Human Rights Watch said in a report.

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