I first attended the “Encuentros de Mujeres” (Meetings of Women) in August 2011, during my first weekend in Quito, Ecuador. I have long been interested in sexual and gender-based violence…
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Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Executive Director Emily Arnold-Fernandez spoke at the International Human Rights Funders Group Conference 2012 on mainstreaming refugees into human rights discourse. Our Right to Work blog has been receiving record…
Helping Wrongly-denied Refugees
Kevin was just 22 years old when he left home in 2009 with his brother. Rebel groups living near his village often came to collect food and forcibly recruit youth.…
Day in the Life of a VLA- Ben Lewis
Name: Ben Lewis Office: Tanzania Age: 32 Hometown: Kansas City, Kansas, USA What made you volunteer as a VLA? After working with Asylum Access San Francisco as a Policy Advocacy…
Forging a New Path for Urban Refugees
“I went to a local church to ask for help. They assisted me with a place to stay and gave me some money for food. However, it did not take…
A Day in the Life of a VLA – Rita Crowley-Ornelas
Published May 2012 Name: Rita Crowley-Ornelas Office: Ecuador Age: 25 Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico What made you volunteer as a VLA? I was intrigued by the opportunity to work abroad,…
Working Through the Floods in Thailand
An Interview with Asylum Access Thailand Legal Services Manager Michael Timmins Following months of heavy rain, a third of Thailand has been inundated in what has been called the worst…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Asylum Access participated in Opportunity Collaboration in Ixtapa, Mexico, asking activists and investors dedicated to ending poverty to ensure their programs do not exclude refugees. Asylum Access Executive Director was…
Day in the Life of a VLA- Elizabeth Sandoval
Name: Elizabeth Sandoval Office: Ecuador Age: 31 Hometown: Quito, Ecuador What made you volunteer as a VLA? My passion for human rights -- refugee issues are interconnected with human rights…
Urban Refugees in Tanzania
The following article is based on Asylum Access’s forthcoming report, “No Place Called Home”. **UPDATE** A PDF file of the report is now available online. Print copies are also available upon…