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…
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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…
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…
Staff Updates
Meet Asylum Access's New Development Manager, Ally Basak Russell! Ally joined the AAHQ development team in August 2010 as its first Development Manager. She holds a B.A. in government from…