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…
Topic: Legal Aid
Interpreters: Partners for Refugee Rights
"All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher Nietzsche could well have been…
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…
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…
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…
Still on the Run: Refugees in Bangkok
The well-publicized image of life in tents on dusty camps is not the only setting of the refugee story. Today, almost half of the world’s 10.5 million refugees reside in…
Thailand’s Detention Disease
At Asylum Access Thailand we confront a constant that is impossible to ignore: all of our clients are continually at risk of arrest and detention, twenty-four hours a day, seven…
Reflections from DC
A letter drafted following a trip to Washington DC, with considerations from San Francisco. Dear Friends, April was an exciting month for Asylum Access: Our team led workshops for colleagues…