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…
Topic: Policy Advocacy
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…
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…
Perspectives from an Inter-American Court Session
Last November, I had the opportunity to partake in a historical session of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights – its 42nd Special Session, and the first ever held 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…