Asylum Access

About Asylum Access

Asylum Access is composed of human rights advocates who support forcibly displaced individuals and communities in reclaiming their rights, agency, and power. Their mission is to create a world where refugees everywhere can live safely, move freely, work, attend school, and rebuild their lives. They advocate for a response to forced displacement that honors refugees’ freedom, dignity, and autonomy while also strengthening the communities that welcome them. Their unique approach involves legal empowerment, policy change, and global systems change to turn rights into reality for refugee

What They Do

Asylum Access helps forcibly displaced individuals know, use, and shape the laws that govern their experiences. Their staff conduct Know-Your-Rights workshops to support people in navigating the complex asylum-seeking processes and seeking justice for human rights violations. They also train government officials on the rights of forcibly displaced people to establish broader protection of their rights.

Partnership With EMA

As a funder, EMA Foundation provided Asylum Access with unrestricted funding to support their education initiatives and continues to provide abundance coaching for members of their leadership team. EMA and Asylum Access team members also collaborate on a range of communications projects including branding and visual design for their fundraising campaigns and co-designing social media assets.

Their Impact

Asylum Access evaluates its success by assessing its impact on individual refugees and families, a country’s progress toward increased human rights for refugees, and actions by powerful global institutions that result in concrete impacts for refugees.

In the past decade, Asylum Access has reached at least 95,000 refugees with legal empowerment services. Their contributions to policy change have impacted over 1 million refugees worldwide.

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