Dr Kavuro is driven for and by social justice and socio-economic development of the refugee communities and has keen interest in public international law, human rights law, constitutional law, immigration law, refugee law, criminal law and transitional justice.
Experience
2020–present
Postdoctoral research fellow, Stellenbosch University
2018–2019
Law Lecturer , University of the Western Cape
Education
2018
Stellenbosch University , LLD (Public Law)
2012
University of Cape Town , LLM (Social Justice)
2011
University of the Western Cape , LLB (Law)
Publications
2022
The Covid-19 pandemic and socio-economic protection for refugees in South Africa, South African Journal on Human Rights
2022
The disappearance of refugee rights in South Africa, Obiter
2021
Marriages of convenience through the immigration lens: Concepts, issues, impact and policies, Law, Democracy and Development
2019
Exploring the Full Legal Protection of Refugees and its Limitations with Reference to Natural and Positive Law, Obiter
2019
The Value of Human Dignity in the Refugee Protection, African Human Mobility Review
2019
Housing and Integrating Refugees: South African Exclusionary Approach, Obiter
2017
Exploring the Relationship between Hutu Refugees’ Protracted Situation and Insecurity in the Great Lakes Region, African Human Mobility Review
2017
Refugees, serious non-political crimes and prosecution: deficiencies in the criminal justice system occasioned by observance of principle of non-refoulement in the context of refugee and human rights protection, South African Journal of Criminal Justice
2017
Gacaca courts, reconciliation and the politics of apology in post-genocide Rwanda, South African Journal of Criminal Justice
2015
Refugee rights in South Africa: Addressing social injustices in government financial assistance schemes, Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy
2015
Refugees and asylum seekers: Barriers to accessing South Africa’s labour market, Law, Democracy and Development
2013
Penal rehabilitation in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda: pardon and commutation of sentence, South African Journal of Criminal Justice