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…
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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…
Asylum Access to Host Trafficking Symposium at Georgetown Law Center
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 Asylum Access and the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute will present “Spiraling into Desperation: The Connection Between Refugee Rights and Human Trafficking." The event will…
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…
Day in the Life of a VLA – E. Rania Rampersad
“I remember one man in particular, who was living homeless with his two year old son. I told him the bad news: “You are not going to get any assistance…
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…
Quarterly Highlights
Ecuador Figures: Provided individualized, personalized legal assistance to 208 asylum seekers and refugees in our Quito office and 18 cases through local protection networks. Highlights: AAE filed an extraordinary protective…
Day in the Life of a VLA- Anne Davis
Fulbright Scholar and current VLA at Asylum Access Ecuador in Quito, Anne Davis is originally from San Diego, California. Anne received her Bachelors in Political Science and Spanish from the…