This October, Asylum Access Tanzania co-hosted the International Detention Coalition's Africa Regional Workshop at our office in Dar es Salaaam. Aimed at improving immigration detention practices across the continent, our…
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Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Asylum Access Tanzania organized our first mobile legal clinic in Dar es Salaam, bringing legal aid to refugee communities beyond our office. Asylum Access Tanzania's Women’s Empowerment Group (WEG) continues…
Day in the Life of a VLA- Milena Castellnou
Name: Milena Castellnou Office: Ecuador Age: 25 Hometown: Grenoble, France What made you volunteer as a VLA? I wanted to get some more practical experience and I was really interested…
Building a Movement, Growing a Community
Hosting a Refugee Rights Leadership Training in Geneva As part of a growing global refugee rights movement, opportunities to meet our colleagues in person are rare and few. The United…
Bringing Refugee Legal Aid to Remote Areas in Ecuador
In early 2012, Ecuador’s Department of Refugees (DR) organized mobile offices to facilitate the renewal of refugee visas in remote communities. Through these efforts, it came to light that there…
In Tanzania, A Refugee Gives Back
When refugees approach Asylum Access Tanzania (AATZ), they might meet Nondo Nobel Bwami, AATZ Refugee Fellow and an important part of AATZ’s legal services team in Dar es Salaam. “When…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Asylum Access reached a critical milestone in our short history. In 2011 alone, we reached over 5,000 refugees with direct legal services in Ecuador, Tanzania and Thailand for the first…
Refugee Legal Aid in Ecuador
A Photo Essay by Nitsan Tal Above, Maria shows us a certificate from a journalism course. She is a second-generation refugee who left Colombia with her family when she was…
A New Chapter in Refugee Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania
After months of planning, Asylum Access Tanzania launched its inaugural Women’s Empowerment Group on International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011, creating a peer support group where women could learn…
Asylum Access Thailand: Then and Now
Published May 2012 An interview with former Associate Launch Director Vivienne Chew. Five years after she left Asylum Access Thailand (AAT), Associate Launch Director Vivienne Chew visited our office in…