Asylum Access: Making Refugee Rights A Reality

Asylum Access envisions a world where refugees are seen as people with rights, not just people with needs. Through legal aid, strategic litigation, policy advocacy and community education, we empower refugees in Africa, Asia and Latin America to assert their human rights -- creating effective, lasting solutions for refugees around the world.
 
Why Refugee Rights?
Imagine fleeing from a government that threatens to torture or kill you, only to arrive in a foreign country without travel papers, without money, without access to your bank account. 

Could you go into a courtroom, alone, and convince a judge that you shouldn’t be deported?

Refugees fearing persecution or fleeing civil war usually land first in Africa, Asia or Latin America.  Traumatized and alone, recent refugees are especially vulnerable to human rights violations.

Many of them face immediate deportation back to threats of torture, imprisonment or death.  Many more are “warehoused” for years in camps, prisons or shantytowns, unable to work, move freely, or re-establish a permanent home.