“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…
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A Day in the Life of a VLA – Rita Crowley-Ornelas
Published May 2012 Name: Rita Crowley-Ornelas Office: Ecuador Age: 25 Hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico What made you volunteer as a VLA? I was intrigued by the opportunity to work abroad,…
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…
Honorable Mentions and Quarterly Highlights
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…
Day in the Life of a VLA- Elizabeth Sandoval
Name: Elizabeth Sandoval Office: Ecuador Age: 31 Hometown: Quito, Ecuador What made you volunteer as a VLA? My passion for human rights -- refugee issues are interconnected with human rights…
Urban Refugees in Tanzania
The following article is based on Asylum Access’s forthcoming report, “No Place Called Home”. **UPDATE** A PDF file of the report is now available online. Print copies are also available upon…
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…
Notes from Geneva
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…
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…