Kristi Ueda

Fellow at Human Rights Watch researching xenophobia in South Africa

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#SouthAfrica might be the place of her birth and the only country where she has ever lived, but 10-year-old Keshia cannot call it home. “These people don’t like us here,” the daughter of Congolese migrants says.

Read her story here: @hrw @BirgitMSchwarz https://t.co/EMXjo2OU0f

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“I was selling clothes on the street when nine #SouthAfricans carrying sticks came. They were beating people, shouting ‘You foreigners, go home! We don’t need you here! You are taking our jobs and money!’ - refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo

@hrw https://t.co/idiO5naVY9

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“I do not have a life. I cannot do anything. They have robbed me of my life.”

– asylum seeker from Ethiopia, shop owner who has struggled to renew his documentation, 17 years in #SouthAfrica

@hrw https://t.co/idiO5naVY9

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South Africa Should Uphold the Dignity of Asylum Seekers https://t.co/HC2Sdgvkpk