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Honorable Mentions
Asylum Access leadership staff from Ecuador, Thailand, Tanzania and San Francisco gathered in Geneva, Switzerland to attend the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs. Asylum Access Executive Director Emily Arnold-Fernández was…
Notes from Geneva
Dear Friends, 2011 has been a year of exciting growth and change in Asylum Access. All four of our offices are settled into great offices spaces, and our permanent leadership…
Reaching Wrongly-Detained Refugees
In September 2010, VLA Ashley Connell and I nervously waited as prison guards searched us before letting us into the Centro de Rehabilitación Social de Varones de Quito #2, one…
Quarterly Highlights
Ecuador Figures: Provided personalized legal assistance to 138 asylum seekers and refugees in Quito office, and 54 cases outside of Quito. Highlights: In October, AAE brought its first case in…
Staff Updates
Meet Asylum Access's New Development Manager, Ally Basak Russell! Ally joined the AAHQ development team in August 2010 as its first Development Manager. She holds a B.A. in government from…
Asylum Access to Host Trafficking Symposium at Georgetown Law Center
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 Asylum Access and the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute will present “Spiraling into Desperation: The Connection Between Refugee Rights and Human Trafficking." The event will…
Google Corporate Giving Council Awards $100,000 Through Tides Foundation
Published Autumn 2010 Asylum Access received a $100,000 grant from Google Corporate Giving Council through the Tides Foundation to create the Asylum Access Refugee Rights Toolkit, a replicable, sustainable model…
An Update From Thailand
Our office in Thailand looks like a private townhouse, an attached brick-and-plaster building with a gated driveway. A small sign on the gate reads “Asylum Access Thailand”. “We had to…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Honorable Mentions Asylum Access leadership staff attended a convening on LGBTI refugee issues in Washington, DC with other human rights NGOs, UNHCR representatives and funders. Asylum Access Thailand Country Director…