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…
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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…
Day in the Life of a VLA: Juan Gonzalez
Name: Juan Gonzalez Office: Asylum Access Thailand Age: 37 Hometown: Colombia and USA How did you hear about Asylum Access? I was in China before I came here, until plans to…
Regional Advocacy: Cartagena +30 Civil Society Initiative
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Cartagena Declaration next year, Asylum Access Ecuador (AAE) is one of three organizations leading the Cartagena +30 Civil Society Initiative, a research project…
Asylum Access Awarded the 2013 Grinnell Prize
We are excited to announce that Executive Director Emily Arnold-Fernandez was awarded the Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize this year, an annual prize that honors individuals under…