Name: Andrew Damron Office: Asylum Access Thailand Age: 28 Hometown: New York City, United States What type of law did you practice before volunteering with Asylum Access? Before coming to…
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For refugees, by refugees: AAT clients develop Community Action Plan
What would you do if you landed in a foreign country without a penny to your name, without the ability to speak the language and without any friends who might…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Professor James Hathaway who will be joining the Asylum Access team as Senior Advisor, providing strategic advice and training for staff and leading a thought provoking interdisciplinary workshop at Stanford…
Day in the Life of a VLA: Oltesh Abraham
Name: Oltesh Abraham Office: Asylum Access Tanzania Age: 28 Hometown: Arusha, Tanzania What type of law did you practice before volunteering with Asylum Access? I used to practice international law…
The route to Cartagena +30: challenges to protection in Latin America
**NOTE** - The executive summary of the report, “Cartagena Initiative +30: International Protection and Effective Integration: Civil Society Recommendations from the Front Lines of Asylum and Statelessness in Latin America and the…
Enabling entrepreneurialism among refugees in Tanzania
Imagine raising two children on less than $1 per day. This was one of the challenges Suzanne faced as a teenage mother. After witnessing the death of her parents at…
Organizations in Bangkok combine efforts for refugee assistance
While Thailand’s most famous refugees are the 140,000 Myanmar refugees living in camps, a virtually invisible, undocumented, and steadily growing population of urban refugees are living in Bangkok. Since Thailand…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
ED Emily Arnold-Fernandez was awarded the 2013 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize. The award recognizes the work of the entire Asylum Access family, past and present. Asylum Access…
A Journey to the Frontlines of Refugee Rights Assistance
Notes from a visit to our offices in border towns and cities across Ecuador. One year after Asylum Access Ecuador opened five new offices around the country, I visited to…
Tanzanian Government Gives Refugees Their Day in ‘Court’
After over three years of silence, the Tanzanian government began reviewing applications for refugee legal status again this May, a process that determines whether refugees would be granted the right…