Our Africa team researcher Yowali shares her take on what motivates her to volunteer with Asylos. I recently made a big move from Belgium to Canada, and my new routine has given me little to no time for extra activities. Saturdays and Sundays are the only days during...
The third in a series of posts that portray the complex journeys of individual asylum seekers who come to Asylos by Emanuela Colaci Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights affirms that “everyone has the right to a nationality”. Despite this, UNHCR...
The second in a series of posts that portray the complex journeys of individual asylum seekers who come to Asylos. by Michaela Korodimou This instalment of Asylum stories brings you the story of A, a young person from Thailand who like so many others faced the...
The first in a series of posts that portray the complex journeys of individual asylum seekers who come to Asylos. by Michaela Korodimou 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...
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. by Marius Jammes When writing a Country of Origin Information (COI) report,...
by Radu Botez 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...
by Ellen Riotte and Sebastian Kraus 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...