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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....
Atheist asylee: Aynoor’s story
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...
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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...
Learn more about Child-specific Country of Origin Information (COI)
Join us online for our roundtable discussion on Child-specific Country of Origin Information (COI) and learn more about our new Publications on Children and Young People. At this event we will present new publications, our Country of Origin Information report on: The...