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…
Topic: Legal Aid
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…