By Sophie Kloos For lawyers and for adjudicators, ascertaining a potential risk on return may be especially challenging when involving children. Children may not express a fear of return as elaborately as adults, and a very young child may not even have such a fear....
In this edition of our asylum stories, we bring you the journey of Aynoor*, a young Pakistani woman who feared returning to Pakistan due to her atheist beliefs. by Eden Gebremeskel International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on...
By Sophie Kloos, Olivia Baskerville, Maya Pritchard and Serena Sorrenti Lara Casalotti joined Asylos in autumn 2015 as a volunteer coordinator of the Afghanistan research team. Since then her unyielding commitment to the principle that all asylum-seekers should be...
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by Alexandra Dufresne Alexandra Dufresne is a Trustee of Asylos. She is an American lawyer specialising in refugee, immigration, and child law and policy. She taught seminars in law and policy at Yale from 2006-2015 and currently teaches law at several Swiss...
The sixth in a series of posts that portray the complex journeys of individual asylum seekers who come to Asylos. by Julia Z. Pohl and Olivia Baskerville Arranged marriage is a relatively common occurrence in conservative parts of Afghanistan. They are an opportunity...
The fifth in a series of posts that portray the complex journeys of individual asylum seekers who come to Asylos by Julia Z. Pohl This edition of our asylum stories brings you the journey of J, a young gay man from Serbia who moved to the UK to escape violent...
The fourth in a series of posts that portray the complex journeys of individual asylum seekers who come to Asylos by Julia Z. Pohl This edition of our asylum stories brings you the journey of C, a young Tologese child who was born intersex and had to face the...
by Daniel Buchman Once a year our volunteers join with the Austrian Red Cross’s COI research department to discuss best practices, reinforce research skills, and explore the future of digital investigations. This year, our intern Dan brought back six essential...
by Daniel Buchman Our intern Dan explores how data helps us understand the process of claiming asylum, whose stories are being heard, and whose aren’t. In our 2018 statistics report, Syrian cases make up a mere 3% of 2018 research requests, despite making up the...
The research Asylos produces helps give asylum seekers a credible voice in the courtroom. But if country of origin information research is the engine of dignity, the arguments are its fuel. The lawyers who work with Asylos use precise and nimble arguments to defend...