Legal Empowerment
Asylum Access lawyers and community advocates use legal empowerment to support refugees as they assert and protect their human rights.
Legal empowerment supports refugee communities and their allies to understand, use and shape the laws that affect them.
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Refugee clients supported through legal empowerment services
Policy change is an important advocacy outcome, making sure that the rights that refugees are owed are enshrined in law.
In many countries, refugee communities are prohibited from accessing the basic rights and opportunities that allow them to support their families and contribute to their new homes. They are not allowed to work, their children can’t go to school, and they live in constant fear of being arrested, detained and sent back to the life-threatening situations they fled.
When laws oppress or discriminate against people, the laws need to be changed.
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Refugees positively affected through our policy change efforts
Lasting change comes when refugees and local actors lead. We press institutions to share power, fund refugee-led organizations, and build responses shaped by lived experience.
1,000,000+
Lives impacted and counting.
Our Story
Asylum Access started in the apartment of our founder, Emily Arnold-Fernández, as a collective of passionate human rights lawyers who saw an opportunity for change. The goal: a world where forcibly displaced people can access their rights and rebuild their lives, wherever they find themselves. We have grown to become a global leader in advancing refugee rights, with organizations and initiatives around the world.
20
Years of supporting forcibly displaced communities
