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...
Rwanda
Rwanda: Mental Health Provision and Trafficking
On this page you can download our latest Rwanda COI publications: Rwanda: Mental Health Provision, June 2024 Rwanda: Trafficking, June 2024 Our reports combine timely, publicly available information on Rwanda. Background The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration)...
Rwanda: A Snapshot of Access to Rights and Services for Children and Young People
On this page you can download our report Country of Origin Information (COI) for Children and Young People in Rwanda: A Snapshot of Access to Rights and Services, produced by Asylos and kindly funded by the Trust for London. This snapshot provides a brief overview of...
Rwanda: Treatment of members of the United Democratic Forces (UDF) and people refusing civic service
On this page you can download our report Rwanda : Traitement des membres des Forces Démocratiques Unifiées (FDU) et des personnes refusant le service civique (ingando/urgerero/itorero), produced by Asylos' volunteer network. This research report was produced in...
New Rwanda COI Compilation Published
Asylos’ new Country of Origin Information report, Rwanda: COI Compilation, Asylum System, covers a broad range of information relating to Rwanda’s asylum system. Asylos produced this COI compilation in response to high demand for information illustrating the...
Rwanda: Asylum System
On this page, you can download our commentary on the UK Home Office’s recently published Country Policy and Information Note: Rwanda, asylum system and on the related Country Policy and Information Note: Rwanda, assessment. In addition, you can download our Country of...
New Rwanda Commentary Published
In May 2022, the UK Home Office published four Country Policy and Information Notes about Rwanda in order to assist them in their assessment whether Rwanda could be classified as a ‘safe third country of asylum’, and whether a person relocated to Rwanda would face a...
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...
Rwandan ‘peace camps’, persecution and the struggle to be believed
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...





