Asylum Stories: Preserving the Palestinian entity and identity – trapped between legal existence and recognition
This asylum story recounts the uncertain situation of stateless Palestinians who find themselves in a legal limbo, lacking the right to have a nationality and the right to have rights.
read moreAsylum Stories: Transgender and trafficked from Thailand
The second instalment of Asylum Stories, this week we bring you the story of A, a transgender person fleeing from trafficking and prostitution.
read moreAsylum Stories: Rwandan ‘peace camps’, persecution and the struggle to be believed
S is a hutu-tutsi girl who, like many young Rwandans was called to go to the Ingando camps. Described by the Rwandan government as “programmes for peace education” for Rwandan youth and as aiming to be a form of “education for good governance”, the idea of the Ingando camps seems in line with the stance that Rwanda has taken on grassroots, community led transitional justice. However, despite this description, there is strong evidence that Ingando camps are highly militarised.
This story tells the tale of S’s struggles and the way that Asylos’s research was able to support her in gaining asylum.
read moreFrom manual writing to automatic generation: an insight into Asylos research
For Asylos researchers, writing a COI report means a lot of time spent on formatting the text. Asylos came up with a solution: a new tool that helps researchers automatically generate report.
read moreEight geolocation tools to support asylum claims
Confirming the existence of a place mentioned in a testimony can be of crucial importance for an asylum claim. Besides Google Maps, there are a number of mapping services that can help with identifying locations, especially through their street-view feature. Some of...
read moreAsylos trustee Thomas Klau shares his perspective on the EU-Turkey refugee deal
Asylos trustee and co-founder Thomas Klau recently wrote about the EU-Turkey agreement - "an unprecedented deal to expel asylum seekers and war refugees from the EU territory of Greece and deport them back to neighboring Turkey." Read the article on the website of the...
read moreHow to research safely on the internet
Everyone knows that defending human rights around the globe can be a risky business. But even when sitting safely in front of a computer in Europe researching information for an asylum claim, we should be concerned about security: very often, we are trying to dig up facts about highly sensitive human rights issues, specific people or recent events.
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These social media accounts show you the human stories of Europe’s refugees and asylum seekers
If you do not want to lose focus of the human stories of Europe’s refugees and asylum seekers, these are the SM accounts of photographers, journalists and NGOs that keep covering the issue and uncovering personal tragedies behind every boat in the Mediterranean.
read moreHow do you measure persecution?
Recent tragic refugee deaths in the Mediterranean have proven how difficult it can be to reach Europe to claim asylum. But getting to Europe is just the first step. In many cases, receiving asylum requires evidence of persecution that can be difficult to produce.
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