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Why declaring Rwanda a safe third country of asylum is incoherent with available country information
by Emily Wilbourn and Sophie Kloos The dramatic European Court of Human Rights intervention that prevented the first planned deportation of asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda on 14 June 2022 has provided only momentary relief for those who may soon find themselves...
How Interviews Can Help Fill Information Gaps
by Nanneke Wisman and Sophie Kloos At Asylos we believe that those seeking asylum and their counsel should have access to information to support their claim to asylum or other forms of international protection. Decisions on individual claims should be fair and based...
Four tips for efficient child-specific COI research
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....
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Register for our COI Fundamentals and Specialised Training webinars – Autumn 2024
We are pleased to announce that we have now opened registration for a series of free training webinars throughout Autumn 2024, aimed at legal representatives and those providing Country of Origin Information (COI) support, in the UK and beyond. Researching and Using...
New Rwanda research reports on mental health and trafficking published
Background The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024 is a law in the UK which came into force on 25 April 2024. The law states that decision makers must conclusively treat Rwanda as a safe country. The law does not allow for a decision to be challenged on...
New report on autism in Sierra Leone
We are pleased to share a new report covering: Sierra Leone: autism. This report was produced in response to a query from an asylum professional, and responds to the research questions submitted to us. By making our research more widely available, we hope to...