Asylum Access’s 8th Annual Summer Soiree and Auction featured U.S. Olympian Meb Keflezighi on Thursday, June 27, 2013 at The City Club of San Francisco. Thank you to all our…
Region: Global
Strategic Litigation for Refugee Rights Empowerment
An update from the UN Annual Consultations with NGOs This June, Asylum Access went to Geneva for the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs with a big goal: to foster dialogue…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Asylum Access Ecuador and the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) presented our new report on “Refugee Status Determination in Latin America: Regional Challenges and Opportunities” at the Washington…
An Interview with Meb Keflezighi
An Eritrean refugee who moved to the United States with his family at age 12, Meb started running in high school and went on to become an Olympic silver medalist…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Five years after opening its doors, Asylum Access Thailand has provided individualized legal counsel and/or representation for a landmark 900 cases! ED Emily Arnold-Fernandez is featured in the California Bar…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
Asylum Access's story was published in a chapter co-written by founder and Executive Director Emily Arnold-Fernandez in the book "Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities" edited by Zachary D. Kaufman.…
Annual Report 2011-2012
This year marked the fifth full year of operations for Asylum Access. We continue to help increased numbers of refugees assert their rights each year, and to achieve policy changes…
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…
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…
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…