In addition to our ongoing, case-based research, we undertake a range of projects to improve access to information for asylum claims, manage knowledge in our own organisation, and explore how technology can help improve decision-making on asylum claims.
Take a look at some of our ongoing and previous projects below. If you have a project idea that you want to share with us, contact us on info@asylos.org.
Project duration: April 2021 - March 2022. The next project of this format focusing on statelessness is currently ongoing. Through consultations with legal representatives in the UK, we became aware of the absence of relevant Country of Origin Information about...
On this page you can download our report Nigeria: Children and Young People with Disabilities, produced jointly by Asylos and Asylum Research Centre (ARC) Foundation and kindly funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Our report combines relevant and timely publicly...
This joint report by Asylos and ARC Foundation addresses an information gap on the topic of state treatment of LGBTQI+ persons in Ghana. The topic was chosen through consultation with legal representatives in the UK who identified an existing gap in country of origin...
Project duration: November 2019 - ongoing This project aims to improve asylum decision-making by raising the quality of country information. We develop and teach a research training curriculum to legal representatives in the UK, who use these skills to better...
This joint report by Asylos and ARC Foundation addresses an information gap on the topic of victims of trafficking returned to Vietnam from the UK. The topic was chosen after consultation with legal representatives who identified a major gap in country-of-origin...
Legal representatives representing young Albanian asylum seekers in the UK and elsewhere in Europe identified this topic as a major gap in country-of-origin information (COI) relating to young person and child-specific persecution and harm and a common barrier for...
Endorsed and peer-reviewed by the Asylum Research Centre (ARC) Foundation and the Dutch Council for Refugees, Asylos has compiled this country-of-origin information (COI) research report on the situation of young male ‘Westernised’ returnees to Kabul, Afghanistan....
Thorough research is vital for a successful asylum claim. Such country-of-origin information (COI) is used to support specific elements in asylum-seekers’ claims. As asylum seekers often lack documents that prove a risk of persecution on return, they rely on...