Sharon Ekambaram is head of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Project at Lawyers for Human Rights. Before joining LHR she worked for Doctors Without Borders as the founding director of the organization’s Southern Africa office and later as the head of the advocacy and networking program. She also worked with the Treatment Action Campaign at its inception in the struggle for access to treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS, and later worked for the AIDS Consortium. Twitter: Sharon Ekambaram.     https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/sharon-ekambaram/rss en Laws & Policy Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:43:43 +0000 Sharon Ekambaram https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/21/border-camps-in-south-africa-will-not-solve-asylum-crisis https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/06/21/border-camps-in-south-africa-will-not-solve-asylum-crisis The government is scapegoating refugees and migrants with a harsh new asylum regime, argues Sharon Ekambaram from Lawyers for Human Rights, who see it as a betrayal of South Africa’s struggle.