This joint document between Asylum Access and other civil society organizations offers guiding principles and concrete proposals to UN Member States negotiating the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular…
Topic: Policy Advocacy
Asylum Access Malaysia submits shadow report to CEDAW regarding the rights of refugee women in Malaysia
Asylum Access Malaysia presented an independent report yesterday, February 20, in Geneva to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The report focused on the…
Brazil Plan of Action: Evaluation 2014-2017 (Spanish)
The Brazil Plan of Action, adopted by 28 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2014, defined specific actions to strengthen protections and sustainable solutions for refugees, forcibly displaced…
Statement by Asylum Access on the Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Refugees
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 1, 2018 Media contact: Brian Rawson, Asylum Access, Mobile: 617 283 8709 Oakland, CA - Responding to the Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Refugees,…
Asylum Access launches refugeeworkrights.org
Asylum Access is pleased to announce www.refugeeworkrights.org, an interactive website that evaluates refugees’ access to safe and lawful employment in countries around the world. Based on research conducted by Asylum…
Asylum Access convenes High-Level Roundtable to advance refugee rights protections in Latin America
“Migrants and refugees are not only subjects of humanitarian aid, but generators of prosperity for the countries that receive them”, Sergio Vallejos, Director of Noox commented during his reflection at…
Asylum Access represents Latin American civil society organizations in call for migrant rights at UN Session on the Global Compact on Migration
Geneva - On October 11, Asylum Access Latin America represented Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) civil society in a formal statement to the UN body convening the Global Compact on…
UNGA side event: Asylum Access convenes dignitaries, business leaders, and experts for event on refugees’ work rights
Refugees can rebuild their lives and contribute to the economy if given the right to work - this was the central message delivered by business leaders and relief experts to…
Syrian refugees need access to work rights and economic opportunity, new Asylum Access report says
For Syrian refugees, the route to self-sufficiency begins with the right to lawful work, says a new report launched today by Asylum Access. For the nations that host them in…
Asylum Access testifies before the Inter-American Court on Human Rights
On August 24, 2017, two members of the Asylum Access Latin America (AALA) team testified on the rights of asylum seekers during a Public Hearing before the Inter-American Court on…