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Added to our COI Experts for Mexico
CENTRO PRODH
Contact Information: internacional [at] centroprodh [dot] org [dot] mx (internacional[at]centroprodh.org.mx)
Since its foundation by the Jesuits in 1988, the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center (Center Prodh) has worked to defend, promote and increase respect for human rights in Mexico. Center Prodh's mission is to promote and defend the human rights of victims, especially those in situations of vulnerability and poverty, and to build a more just, equitable, and democratic society that fully respects human dignity.
Centro PRODH is useful as a resource point for contact regarding human rights conditions in Mexico. They provide a gateway into information about human rights in Mexico and relevant signposting to other links that might be necessary upon inquiry. They produce general reports on Mexico and human rights.
Added our Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Russia
Inter-Regional Public Charitable Organization “Faith, Hope, and Love”
11, Myachkovskiy Avenue
Moscow
Tel: (495) 346-18–00
Fax: (495) 346–18–01
Email: oplykina [at] yandex [dot] ru (oplykina[at]yandex.ru)
The organisation offers legal aid and advice for forced migrants, refugees, other socially unprotected categories of people inculding refused asylum seekers who were deported to Russia. Their services inculde counselling; drafting of applications, complaints, and statements of claims; drafting of inquiries on problems of vulnerable persons to different instances; establishment of contacts with government administrative bodies.
Added to our NGOs in Costa Rica
Alianza Por Tus Derechos
Website:http://www.alianzaportusderechos.org/article/apoyo-legal/
Address: Santa Marta de Montes de Oca, San Pedro.
Contact telephone:(506) 2524-1327
Contact Email:alianza [at] alianzaportusderechos [dot] org (alianza[at]alianzaportusderechos.org)
The defence of Human Rights of all people is a fundamental principle in our organization. We are prepared to attend people in broad areas such as Sexual Abuse, violence, abandonment, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Child Pornography, Child Labour and trafficking, etc. We provide free legal assistance( for those on low economic resources and a symbolic cost for those that have resources) which covers enquiries, complaints, follow up and coordination in any case of violation of the human rights of minors. We provide legal assistance to those refugees who are minors.
We also work in coordination with other state and non-state organizations the assistance, shelter and rehabilitation of victims. We seek reinstatement of the family structure, as long as it is adequate to the interest of the minor, as well as Access to the education system and society as fundamental rights.
La defensa de los Derechos Humanos de todas las personas, es fundamental para nuestra organización, estamos preparadas para atender a personas en temas como: Abuso Sexual, Agresión, Abandono, Explotación Sexual Comercial, Pornografía Infantil, Trabajo Infantil, Trata y Tráfico de Personas, etc. Brindamos asesoría legal gratuita (para todas aquellas personas que no puedan costearlos y un costo simbólico para quienes si tengan los recursos) desde la consulta, denuncia, seguimiento y coordinación en cualquier caso de violación a los Derechos Humanos de las Personas Menores de Edad. Brindamos asesoría legal a refugiados que sean menores de edad. Así mismo, coordinamos con otras organizaciones estatales y no gubernamentales la atención oportuna, el albergue y rehabilitación de las víctimas. Procuramos el reintegro al seno familiar siempre y cuando sea lo adecuado para la persona menor de edad, así como su reinserción al sistema educativo y a la sociedad, como derechos fundamentales.
Added to our NGOs in Paraguay
Comité de Iglesias para Ayudas de Emergencia CIPAE
website: www.cipae.org.py
Address: Azara Nº 113 c/ Independencia Nacional – Asunción, Paraguay
Contact telephone: (595 21) 493 381 – 495 161 – 493 297
Fax: (595 21) 443 932
Contact e-mail: cipae [at] cipae [dot] org [dot] py (cipae [at] cipae.org.py) – areaddhh [at] cipae [dot] org [dot] py (areaddhh[at]cipae.org.py)
Contact: Mr Víctor Ayala, Executive Director or Mr Rodolfo Manuel Aseretto, Legal Advisor ACNUR (UNHCR)-CIPAE.
(CIPAE) es la agencia socia del ACNUR en Paraguay, encargada de la implementación de los programas. Como organización otorgamos asistencia legal a refugiados y solicitantes de asilo. Otorgamos asesoramiento para la petición del status de refugio ante la Comisión Nacional de Refugiados (CONARE) y acompañamiento para la tramitación de las documentaciones ante las instancias pertinentes en el país. Promovemos la inclusión de salvaguardas de protección adecuadas para refugiados y solicitantes de asilo en el marco de políticas nacionales de migración. Bregamos junto a los representantes de la CONARE y autoridades nacionales de inmigración para mejorar el acceso al territorio de los solicitantes de asilo y para prevenir los casos de devolución al país de origen. Paraguay alberga alrededor de 130 refugiados y solicitantes de asilo provenientes de cerca de 10 países de América Latina, África, Asia y Europa del Este. En los últimos años, la mayor cantidad de solicitudes ha sido de ciudadanos de origen cubano y colombiano.
CIPAE is UNHCR´s partner agency in Paraguay, in charge of implementation of programmes. We provide legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. We provide advice for asylum claims before the National Refugee Commission (CONARE) and accompaniment in the obtaining of documents before the relevant instances. We promote adequate inclusion of safeguards of protection for refugees and asylum seekers within national migratory policy. We work with CONARE representatives and national immigration authorities to improve access and to prevent cases of return to the country of origin. Paraguay hosts about 130 refugees and asylum seekers from 10 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. In recent years, the largest number of requests has been citizens of Cuban and Colombian origin.
Added to our COI Expert for Pakistan
Dr. Emma Varley
Email: emma [dot] varley2012 [at] gmail [dot] com (emma.varley2012[at]gmail.com)
Tel:(92) 0345-400-0611
Dr Emma Varley is a Medical Anthropologist. Since 2012, she is an Associate Professor and the Acting Head of the Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (MNCH) Department at the Health Services Academy in Islamabad. Before that, Emma was an Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. In 2008, she obtained her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and her doctoral dissertation focused on the impacts of sectarian conflict and political instability for health service provision and use in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. She returned to Pakistan in 2010, where she has since been teaching and conducting research. Emma's regional expertise concerns women's and children's health, traditional cultural beliefs and practices, gender and Islam, politics and governance, sectarianism, and conflict. In addition to her extensive research in northern Pakistan, Emma has worked throughout the country on academic projects and development initiatives.
Added to our COI Experts for Nicaragua
Dr. Harry E. Vanden
Contact E- Mail: Vanden [at] usf [dot] edu (Vanden[at]usf.edu)
Dr Harry E. Vanden is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of South Florida, Tamp. He holds a Ph.D., Polit¬ical Science with a minor concentration in Latin American Studies from The New School for Social Research, New York, an M.A in Political Science and a graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, a B.A.in International Affairs, minor in Spanish from Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania and a "Diploma" from the Universidad Computense de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Madrid, España (New York University Junior Year in Spain). He has written and researched extensively on Central America political conditions and Central American Gang Activity. He has also carried out election observation in Nicaragua, Venezuela and Mozambique. He has acted as an expert Witness on country conditions in U.S. Immigration, Federal and State Courts in the areas of general political and social conditions, gangs and gang victimization in Central America, status of homosexuals and domestic violence. His most recent published books include: Social Movements and Leftists Governments in Latin America. London: Zed Press, 2012, Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva and Harry E. Vanden, eds.; José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology of His Writings. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011, translated and edited by Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker; Latin America: An Introduction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011,Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden; Politics of Latin America: The Power Game. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edition (further revised with additional new chapter on U.S.- Latin American Relations ), 2012, Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost; Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century, Resistance, Power, and Democracy, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden and Glen Kuecker, eds (Chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2009) and Inter-American Relations in an Era of Globalization. Beyond Unilaterialism? Whitby, Ontario: de Sitter Publications, 2007, Jorge Nef. and Harry E. Vanden, eds
Added to our COI Experts for Peru
Dr Jelke Boesten
Contact E-mail:j [dot] boesten [at] leeds [dot] ac [dot] uk ( j.boesten[at]leeds.ac.uk)
Dr Jelke Boesten is a Senior Lecturer in Social Development and Human Security at the School of Politics and International Studies of the University of Leeds.She holds a Ph.D. in Gender and Latin American Studies from the University of Amsterdam. She has researched and written extensively about Peru and specifically women in Peru. She has acted as an Expert Witness before.
Added to our COI Experts for Ecuador
Professor Steve Striffler
Email: striffler [at] hotmail [dot] com (striffler[at]hotmail.com)
Professor Striffler is the Doris Zemurray Stone Chair in Latin American Studies, and Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the University of New Orleans.
He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research, an MA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, and a BA in Political Science from UCLA. He is the co-editor of The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics. He has written extensively on Latin America and Ecuador.
Added to our NGOs for Italy
Cooperativa sociale K-Pax
Via Pelabrocco 14
25043 Breno (BS)
Email: info[at]k-pax.eu, segreteria[at]k-pax.eu
Tel: (0039) 0364 321365
K-Pax is a managing body of Italian SPRAR (Services for asylum seekers and refugees). It works in direct link with the local public services. The services offered include:
Social services:
- day and night hosting
- Italian language lessons, professional courses and job training
- social housing, help finding employment and accommodation
- integration moment with the local population
- monthly newsletters with news about the refugees situation
Legal services:
- support and orientation in the bureaucracy of the asylum seeking process
- help preparing interviews at the “Territorial Commission of Milan”
- legal assistance to asylum seekers and refugees in Valle Camonica through specialist lawyers
Medical services:
- medical assistance through local health services and monitoring,
- psychological and psychiatric support, particular focus on vulnerable categories (mental disorders, torture victim)
Added to our COI Experts for Honduras
Dr. Peter Peetz
Contact E-mail: peetz [at] giga-hamburg [dot] de (peetz[at]giga-hamburg.de)
Dr Peetz currently works at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg/Germany. He is the Head of Finance and Administration and was previously a Research Fellow / Doctoral candidate and Head of Public Relations and Publications Department. He also worked for InWEnt (Capacity Building International, Germany) as a Freelance instructor for development workers, carrying out country studies of Honduras. He holds a D.Phil.; magna cum laude; from the University of Hamburg. His doctoral thesis was titled “Maras, media, military: Social discourse and governmental politics regarding youth gangs in Honduras”. He also holds an M.A. in Political Sciences (major subject), Contemporary and mediaeval history (minor subject) and Spanish (minor subject) with Excellence. He has written extensively on Honduras and youth violence in Honduras and Central America.
Added to our COI Experts for Nicaragua
Dr Karen Kampwirth
Contact e-mail: kkampwir [at] knox [dot] edu (kkampwir[at]knox.edu)
Karen Kampwirth is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Latin American Studies program of Knox College. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. from Knox College, summa cum laude in Political Science and Spanish. She has written extensively on gender and Central America. Her publications include Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics 2010, where she was Editor and contributor; Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas 2004 ; Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba 2002 (Translated to Spanish and Turkish(Forthcoming) and Radical Women in Latin America: Left and Right, editor and contributor (with Victoria González), 2001.
Added to our COI Experts for El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
Dr. Harry E. Vanden
Contact E- Mail: Vanden [at] usf [dot] edu (Vanden[at]usf.edu)
Dr Harry E. Vanden is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of South Florida, Tamp. He holds a Ph.D., Political Science with a minor concentration in Latin American Studies from The New School for Social Research, New York, an M.A in Political Science and a graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, a B.A.in International Affairs, minor in Spanish from Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania and a "Diploma" from the Universidad Computense de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Madrid, España (New York University Junior Year in Spain). He has written and researched extensively on Central America political conditions and Central American Gang Activity. He has also carried out election observation in Nicaragua, Venezuela and Mozambique. He has acted as an expert Witness on country conditions in U.S. Immigration, Federal and State Courts in the areas of general political and social conditions, gangs and gang victimization in Central America, status of homosexuals and domestic violence. His most recent published books include: Social Movements and Leftists Governments in Latin America. London: Zed Press, 2012, Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva and Harry E. Vanden, eds.; José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology of His Writings. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011, translated and edited by Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker; Latin America: An Introduction. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011,Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden; Politics of Latin America: The Power Game. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edition (further revised with additional new chapter on U.S.- Latin American Relations ), 2012, Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost; Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century, Resistance, Power, and Democracy, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden and Glen Kuecker, eds (Chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2009) and Inter-American Relations in an Era of Globalization. Beyond Unilaterialism? Whitby, Ontario: de Sitter Publications, 2007, Jorge Nef. and Harry E. Vanden, eds.
Added to our COI Experts for Peru
Dr Paulo Drinot
Contact Email: paulo [dot] drinot [at] ucl [dot] ac [dot] uk (paulo.drinot[at]ucl.ac.uk)
Dr Paulo Drinot is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute of the Americas of University College London. He has taught at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and OxfordHe holds a DPhil (PhD) in Modern History from St Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, an MPhil in Latin American Studies from St Antony’s College of the University of Oxford and a BSc (Economics) Special Subject Economic History form the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an Historian of Modern Peru and has written extensively on the subject.
Added to our Links & Blogs
UPM - Vie di Fuga
Via Porporati 3
10152 Torino
Email: redazione[at]viedifuga.org
Tel: (0039) 011 4368038
Permanent observatory on refugees - online journal
Added to our NGOs in Italy
Borderline Sicilia
http://siciliamigranti.blogspot.it/
Via Ritiro, 24 Modica (Rg)
Email: borderline-sicilia[at]libero.it
Tel: (0039) 3409802196
Monitors migration in Sicily: the arrival of migrants, their arrival in centers, and their administrative detention, with a particular focus on vulnerable categories (women, minors, asylum seekers)
- Publishes on their blog material about their activities
- Sends monthly newsletters summarising important events of the month
- Legal, social and medical assistance and monitoring
- Lobbying and advocacy activities
- Promotion of important cases in different tribunals
- Management with other organisations of the Observatory against discrimination “Noureddine Adnan”
UPM (Ufficio Pastorale Migranti) - Turin
Via Ceresole 42,
10155 Torino
Email: migranti [at] diocesi [dot] torino [dot] it (migranti[at]diocesi.torino.it)
Tel: (0039) 011 242092
- Family reunion practices
- Help with citizenship requests and renewal of papers
- Help preparing CVs and work interviews
- Italian classes and vocational guidance
UPM - Il punto di domande - centro aiuti elaborazione storie richiedenti d’asilo
Via Porporati 3
10152 Torino
Email: puntodidomande [at] upmtorino [dot] it (puntodidomande[at]upmtorino.it), schedepaese [at] upmtorino [dot] it (schedepaese[at]upmtorino.it)
Tel: (0039) 011 4368038
Mobile: (0039) 3889853785
- Support and orientation in the bureaucracy of asylum seeking process
- Helps preparing interviews at the “Commissione Territoriale di Torino” (Territorial commission of Turin)
- Helps finding legal services
Added to our COI Experts for Uruguay
Dr Francesca Lessa
Contact email:francesca [dot] lessa [at] lac [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (francesca.lessa[at]lac.ox.ac.uk)
***Dr Lessa will be able to assist on cases from May 2013.***
Dr Lessa is currently a Junior Research Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, and Post-Doctoral Research Officer and Associated Teaching Staff at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Her PhD Thesis was entitled “The Missing Memory of Transitional Justice: How Argentina and Uruguay confronted past evils, 1983-2009” and a book taken from the thesis will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2013 with the title of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity. She also holds a Master of Arts in International Studies and Diplomacy (Distinction) from the School of Oriental and African Studies from the University of London and a Bachelor of Arts in European Studies (2:1) from Royal Holloway, University of London. She has written extensively on Uruguay, Human Rights, and Transitional Justice. Dr Lessa will be able to assist on cases from May 2013.
Added to our NGOs in Turkey
Association for Solidarity with Refugees (Mülteci-Der / Mültecilerle Dayanışma Derneği)
Anafartalar Caddesi
Salepcioglu Ishani, No.96/511
Konak-Izmir
Turkey
Phone: +90 232 483 54 21
Mobile: +90 5494 835 421, +90 5494 835 422
Email: ofis[at]multeci.org.tr, bilgi[at]multeci.org.tr
In order to protect and defend the rights of the asylum seekers, immigrants and refugees, who have taken shelter in Turkey, Association for Solidarity with Refugees (MülteciDer) was founded in 31 January 2008 in İzmir. In August 2012, Mülteci-Der opened its branch in Edirne which is located at the border between Turkey and Greece. As an organisation working in the area of human rights, humanitarian solidarity and humanitarian aid, the main aim of the organisation is to protect and promote human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants and other target groups. Mülteci Der conducts its work independent of any political party, governments or intergovernmental organisations. Without making any discrimination regarding language, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, political or ideological beliefs, ethnic origin or on any other bases, it addresses the human rights and humanitarian needs of the target population. Mülteci-Der gives direct legal counselling to people in the target group, in particular to those in need of international protection, and engages in advocacy, lobbying and raising awareness activities to empower their basic rights.
For this purpose Mülteci-Der
- Provides legal counselling and assistance to those in need of international protection in detention or in risk of deportation regarding access to asylum, access to basic rights, cases of non-refoulement, cases of readmission, migration related child detention and detention of vulnerable groups;
- Provides legal counselling and assistance for problems faced during the asylum procedures before the UNHCR and the Turkish authorities;
- Provides psychosocial counselling and assistance for basic needs when possible and directs those who need basic or specialised support to the related organisations and specialists.
- Carries out monitoring, research and reporting activities on access to rights and conditions in detention places; on access to the services for basic needs such as health, education, shelter, food and clothing in satellite cities where refugees and asylum seekers are requested to reside.
- Advocates and lobbies activities directed to national, local as well as international bodies to improve the legal framework, policies and practices of refugee and migrant rights;
- Tries to mobilise the attention of all related authorities to intervene about inhuman, degrading behaviours and conditions and abuses.
- Conducts raising awareness activities, trainings, production of written and visual materials for refugee and migrants rights addressing to NGOs, lawyers, activists, universities, media, local and national authorities and the general public.
- Encourages and participates in networks and platforms to promote refugee/migrant rights.
Added to our Pro Bono Legal Aid and Other Refugee Services and to our Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Serbia
Asylum Protection Centre
Sime Igumanova street no.14
11118 Belgrade
Serbia
Phone: +381 11 2457376; +381 11 3085259, +381 63 7047080
Email: sediste [at] apc-cza [dot] org (sediste[at]apc-cza.org)
Contact person: Rados Djurovic, rados [dot] djurovic [at] apc-cza [dot] org (rados.djurovic[at]apc-cza.org)
The Asylum Protection Centre (APC) offers pro bono legal aid for refugees and failed asylum seekers in Serbia. APC works in reception centres for foreigners, asylum centres, centres for foreign minors and in their office.
APC provides complete legal representation for refugees applying for asylum in Serbia
Added to our COI Experts for Paraguay
R. Andrew Nickson
Email: R [dot] A [dot] Nickson [at] bham [dot] ac [dot] uk (R.A.Nickson[at]bham.ac.uk)
R. Andrew Nickson is Honorary Reader in Public Management and Latin American Development at the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. He has extensive worldwide experience of teaching, research and consultancy on public administration reform, local governance, decentralisation, and the regulation of privatised public utilities. He had long-term attachment to the Ministry of Economic Planning, Sierra Leone (1974-76) and from 1979-89 was lecturer and Graduate Admissions Officer (1986-89), at the International Development Department. He was advisor to the Nepal Administrative Staff College (1990-91). From 1992-98 directed a European Union regional training program for senior public administrators in Latin America and from 1999-2000 he directed a European Union Project for State Reform in Paraguay. His most recent research has focussed on decentralisation and poverty reduction, private sector participation in urban water supply, and the relationship between language, governance and citizen participation. He is a regular writer for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Oxford Analytica and Jane’s Information Group. He is Associate Expert in Governance, UNDP Regional Service Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (RSCLAC), Panama and an External Trainer for the United Nations Service Staff College (UNSSC), Turin, Italy and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has written extensively on Paraguay and was co-editor of The Paraguay Reader (2012).
Added to our NGOs in Paraguay
PARROQUIA DEL MIGRANTE
Website: http://www.arzobispado.org.py/promocion-humana?cont=3
Address: Av. Kubischek 661 y Azara.Asunción, Paraguay.
Contact telephone: 205.008 o 205.991/2 Interno 130
Contact email: parroquiadelmigrante [at] hotmail [dot] com (parroquiadelmigrante[at]hotmail.com)
Esta Parroquia tiene como misión atender a todos los inmigrantes de la Arquidiócesis, sea en su aspecto espiritual, cultural, social y jurídico, ya que el ser humano abarca todos estos aspectos de la vida. Nuestra misión con los migrantes ya tiene una historia de más de 10 años en esta iglesia particular en la defensa de los derechos de los inmigrantes, bien como en la atención a aquellos paraguayos emigrantes afuera de este país. Brindamos asistencia e orientación jurídica gratuitas a personas migrantes y solicitantes de Refugio.
This parish has as its mission is to serve all immigrants in the Archdiocese, is in its spiritual, cultural, social and legal aspects as being a human beings covers all these aspects of life. Our work with migrants has a history of over 10 years of defending the rights of immigrants, as well as assisting Paraguayans that emigrate from Paraguay. We provide free legal assistance and guidance to migrants and asylum seekers.
Added to our NGOs in El Salvador
CEMUJER
Website: www.cemujer.com
Address:Colonia Médica, Boulevard Dr. Héctor Silva Romero #144, Casa Morada de la Mujer San Salvador, El Salvador.
Contact Office Telephone: (503) 2275/7563
Help line: (503) ) 2226/5466
Contact Email:cemujer [at] integra [dot] com [dot] sv (cemujer[at]integra.com.sv)
CEMUJER es una organización que contribuye a la promoción de los derechos humanos de las mujeres, niños y adolecentes. CEMUJER cuenta con un equipo multi/pluridisciplinario que brinda orientación y asesoría a aquellas mujeres, niños y niñas que denuncian violencia, a fin de contribuir a la disminución de la violencia contra las mujeres, niños y niñas, en una búsqueda permanente por contribuir a la igualdad real entre los géneros. CEMUJER otorga asesoría legal y apoyo sicológico a mujeres que han sufrido violencia de género que son refugiadas o solicitantes de asilo en El Salvador como también mujeres que están en El Salvador y necesitan solicitar asilo en otros países.
CEMUJER is an organization that contributes towards the promotion of the human rights of women, children and adolescents. CEMUJER has a multidisciplinary team that provides guidance and advice to those women and children that denounce violence, with the aim of reducing violence against women and children, in a permanent search for real gender equality. CEMUJER provides legal assistance and psychological support to women refugees and asylum seekers that have suffered gender violence and also has helped women that have suffered gender violence in El Salvador and are in need to seek asylum in other countries.
Added to our COI Experts for Bolivia
Dr. Kepa Artaraz
Email: k [dot] artaraz [at] brighton [dot] ac [dot] uk (k.artaraz[at]brighton.ac.uk)
Dr. Kepa Artaraz is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the School of Applied Social Science of the University of Brighton. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma of Higher Education in teaching and Learning, University of Chester a PhD(awarded with minor corrections) from the University of Wolverhampton in Sociology/History, an MPhil(Distinction) from the University of Glasgow in Latin American Development/Research Methods, a BA Hons (First class) from the University of Central Lancashire in Health Studies and Sociology and a Diploma of HE in Nursing, from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Dr. Artaraz has written extensively on Latin America, and on Bolivia more specifically. His latest book “Bolivia: Refounding the Nation” (2012) is an account of the rise of MAS in Bolivia.
Added to our 'Pro Bono Legal Aid and Other Refugee Services'-list and to the Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Italy
Everyone Group
Viale Monte Grappa, 30
24047 Treviglio (Bergamo)
Tel: +39 331 3585406
Email: info [at] everyonegroup [dot] com (info[at]everyonegroup.com)
International Human Rights Organization with particular reference to protection of the rights of refugees, migrants and other social groups victims of persecution, discrimination and marginalization.
Added to out Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Greece
Dr. Dr. Eftihia Voutira
Professor
Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies
University of Macedonia
156 Egnatia Str.
Thessaloniki, 54006
Tel: +30-2310-891476
Fax: +30-2310-891422
E-mail: voutira [at] uom [dot] gr (voutira[at]uom.gr) , effievoutira [at] gmail [dot] com (effievoutira[at]gmail.com)
Professor Voutira monitors deportations from Greece.
Added to our Links & Blogs
European Address Book Against Racism
UNITED for Intercultural Action
http://www.unitedagainstracism.org
Postbus 413
NL-1000 AK Amsterdam
Telephone: +31-20-6834778
Fax: +31-20-6834582
Email: info [at] unitedagainstracism [dot] org (info[at]unitedagainstracism.org)
The European Address Book Against Racism provides a useful tool for organisations that want to get in touch with other organisations to start collaboration. UNITED has done continuous research to come up with up-to-date and correct data. The annual printed edition contains the addresses (including e-mail and websites) of 2300 organisations and magazines active against racism, fascism, nationalism and in support of migrants and refugees, and 135 funding institutions.
The searchable online database contains over 4000 entries.
The Address Book is an invaluable tool, in total an estimated 40.000 - 50.000 copies are circulating in Europe, due to the fact that groups produce duplicates for their affiliates. The Address Book is one of the most well-known and well-used information tools in these working fields: whether you want to establish cross-contacts or improve the flow of information on a national or international level. It can be the basis for the development of common activities and campaigns.
Added to our NGOs in Nicaragua
CENIDH
Website: http://www.cenidh.org/
Phone: 2222563 - 2668940 – 2682116- 2666265
Email: cenidh [at] cenidh [dot] org (cenidh[at]cenidh.org)
CENIDH was created in May 1990 as a civil Society initiative, with concerns over the promotion of Human Rights in Nicaragua. As a member of the National Comission of Refugee Aid(CONAR), created in 2008 through the Refugee Protecion Act. We investigate complaints, carry out human rights workshops to promote and defend human rights working with a network of volunteer human right promoters in various municipalities. We produce a yearly report on human right conditions in Nicaragua. In those cases that a person is claiming refugee status, we accompany them and follow up their case in coordination with UNHCR. We also support members of the LGBTI community.
El CENIDH nació en el mes de mayo de 1990 por iniciativa de un grupo de personas representativas de la sociedad civil, preocupadas por la defensa y promoción de los Derechos Humanos en Nicaragua. Como miembro de la Comisiòn Nacional de Ayuda al Refugiado(CONAR) , creada en el 2008 a través de la Ley de Protección a los Refugiados. Investigamos denuncias, impartimos talleres de derechos humanos y mucho más para promover y defender los derechos humanos en el paìs, contando con una Red de Promotores voluntarios de derechos humanos en varios municipios Elaboramos cada año un informe sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Nicaragua. E n aquellos casos que una persona solicite refugio se les acompaña ante las instancias correspondientes para que haga su tramite dandole seguimiento a su caso en coordinaciòn con ACNUR . También otorgamos apoyo a miembros de la comunidad LGBTI.
Added to our NGOs in Costa Rica
CIDEHUM
Website: www.cidehum.sitew.com
Address: San Pedro de Montes de Oca. Oficentro Casa Alameda, oficina n°7. San José, Costa Rica.
Phone: (506) 2280-8968 Fax. (506) 2234 0182
Email: cidehum [at] gmail [dot] com (cidehum[at]gmail.com)
CIDEHUM provides legal assistance, psychosocial services and orientation to migrants and asylum seekers in order to obtain relevant documents. CIDEHUM carries out monitoring of migration and asylum laws and rules developed by the state, some of these such as the new law against human trafficking under collaboration with CIDEHUM, from a legal human rights perspective.
El CIDEHUM, da orientación jurídica, atención psicosocial y fundamentalmente orienta a los y las migrantes y solicitantes de la condición de refugiado, en el marco de la gestión que debe llevarse a cabo para obtener documentos.CIDEHUM colabora en el monitoreo leyes y reglamentos, algunas de ellas, como la ley contra la trata de personas, resultado directo de la labor de incidencia y trabajo directo con las autoridades de Poder Ejecutivo y Judicial, desde la perspectiva jurídica de protección a los derechos humanos de poblaciones vulnerables.
Added to out Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Serbia
Praxis
Head office:
Alekse Nenadovica 7-III, Belgrade, Serbia, 11000
Tel: +381 11 344 4486
Fax: +381 11 344 4483
Email: bgoffice [at] praxis [dot] org [dot] rs (bgoffice[at]praxis.org.rs)
Field office:
Heroja Maricica 70, Kraljevo, Serbia, 36000
Tel: +381 36 312 659
Fax: +381 36 312 658
Email: kvoffice [at] praxis [dot] org [dot] rs (kvoffice[at]praxis.org.rs)
The NGO Praxis provides free legal aid to the most marginalized and socially excluded communities, national minorities (Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian), displaced persons and people who have returned on the basis of readmission agreements. Its work covers the fields of nationality, personal documents, housing, education, health care, social protection and employment, as well as the area of sexual and gender-based violence.
Added to our NGOs in The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Journalists for Human Rights
Venijamin Macukovski 2A-3/16
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Phone: +38922461322
Email: detstvo [at] detstvo [dot] org [dot] mk (detstvo[at]detstvo.org.mk)
Our work is enhancing Human Rights in Macedonia and the broader region. Regarding refugees
• we spread information about the refugee situation through the media
• we offer education and workshops with asylum seekers about their rights and responsibility
• we work with internally displaced people
Added to our NGOs in Costa Rica
CENDEROS
Website: http://cenderos.org/inicio
Central Central San Jose Office:
Address: Del BCR 25 metros Este, 25 metros Norte, Sabanilla, Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica.
Telephone: (506) –22 24 7478- 22534352
Email: cenderos [at] cenderos [dot] org (cenderos[at]cenderos.org)
Upala Office
Dirección: Upala Centro, de La Fiscalia 50 metros al este, Upala, Costa Rica.
Telefonos: 2470 21 22, 2470 04 78.
Email: cenderos [at] cenderos [dot] org (cenderos[at]cenderos.org)
CENDEROS offers assistance to all migrants and refugees that need support with legal and psychosocial matters. We also provide information and orientation regarding labour rights and migration. We accompany and provide support with paperwork. On weekends, our central office offers a place of training and rest during the day to women that are domestic workers.Our Upala office promotes and supports projects directed to the empowering of women. We work with the cominities of Upala, Los Chiles, Guatuso and the Southern Micro-region of Nicaragua.
CENDEROS ofrece asistencia a cualquier persona migrante o refugiada que necesite nuestro apoyo en asuntos legales, psico socials. Además brinda información y orientación sobre derechos laborales y migratorios, así como facilitar los tramites migratorios y se le da acompañamiento.En la sede central, funciona los fines de semana la Casa de la Mujer Migrante donde las mujeres migrantes trabajadoras domesticas pueden pasar el dia descansando, capacitandose.Desde la sede Upala se promueven y apoyan proyectos de emprendimiento de mujeres. Se trabaja con las comunidades de Upala, Los Chiles, Guatuso y la Micro-Región Sur de Nicaragua.
Added to our Pro Bono Legal Aid and Other Refugee Services and to our Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Germany
Café 104 in Munich
Café 104
Görresstraße 43
80797 München
(Take U2 to ‚Josephsplatz‘ or Bus 154 to ‚Görrestraße’)
Phone.: +49 (0)89 45 20 76 56
Fax: +49 (0)89 45 20 76 57
Email: cafe104 [at] live [dot] de (cafe104[at]live.de)
Café 104 provides support for those without official permissions to reside in Germany, for these people have few enforceable rights and are under constant threat of beeing uncovered and then deported. Café 104 accompanies their clients to the authorities, proposes applications for "Duldung" or humanitarian protection, searches for accommodation, and if required for an application, obtains a medical and psychiatric examination. Café 104 can initiate dialogue with the authorities as a possible pathway to legal status. Another important function is to provide medical and legal assistance to pregnant clients until the residence is clarified after the birth of child.
All this involved are working free of charge, voluntarily, anonymously and independently.
Added to our COI Experts for Peru
Dr. John Crabtree
Email: john [at] crabtree-condor [dot] u-net [dot] com (john[at]crabtree-condor.u-net.com)
Dr. John Crabtree is a freelance consultant editor, writer, broadcaster and teacher on Latin American politics, economics and international relations.He is also a research associate at the Latin American Centre, Oxford University and Senior Member of Saint Antony’s College. He holds an MA in Modern History from the University of Oxford, a B. Phil in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool and a Ph.D from Oxford Brookes University.He has written vastly on Bolivia and Peru and his expertise as a COI expert regards the overall political conditions in Peru.
Training Films Added at http://www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org/content/films
Earlier this year, Shari Robertson and Michael Camerini, who produced the films, ‘Well-Founded Fear of Persecution,’ have given permission for two of their films to be shared on www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org: Well-Founded Fear and Practicing Refugee Law. These two films provide excellent training and we strongly recommend that they be used to train legal aid providers, interpreters, and judges as well as for raising awareness of the plight of asylum seekers. We ask anyone not from an NGO in the South or lacking the funding to do so, should go to their web site http://www.epidavros.org/ss/products and purchase the films. As they put it: ‘Yes, we are still selling all three on our web site, but we'd love to help. Is there some way for you to filter for decidedly first world down loaders? Would hate to see too many American Universities downloading for free - they can afford a little support for filmmakers! By the way, our post Well-Founded Fear project, an endless one, is here: Twelve Stories: How Democracy Works Now | Home.’
Added to our NGOs in Venezuela
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Website: http://www.ucab.edu.ve/inicio.194.html
Address: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Urb. Montalbán, Av. Teherán, Edf. Cincuentenario, piso 5, Caracas 1020, Venezuela.
Contact email: cddhh [at] ucab [dot] edu [dot] ve (cddhh[at]ucab.edu.ve)
Contact telephone: +58-212-407-4434
The Centro de Derechos Humanos of the Universidad Católica Andres Bello works in refugee studies in research, teaching and defense of legal cases before international organizations such as the ICHR and the UN.
El Centro de Derechos Humanos de la UCAB trabaja en el área de refugiados en las líneas tradicionales de la academia: investigación, docencia y extensión y además hacemos defensa de casos y acciones ante órganos internacionales (CIDH y ONU) sobre la materia.
Added to our NGOs in Germany
Ärzte der Welt (Doctors of the World - Medical NGO) – Project Open.med München
http://www.aerztederwelt.org/projekte/openmed-muenchen.html
Görresstr. 43
80797 München
take U2 to Josephplatz or Bus 154)
Tel: +49 (0) 177 511 69 65; +49 (0)89-45207658 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10am to 5pm)
Email: suzanne [dot] bruins [at] aerztederwelt [dot] org (suzanne.bruins[at]aerztederwelt.org)
open.med offers medical aid and social support to migrants experiencing difficult situations in their life and to people without health insurance. We work independently of the authorities and respect the anonymity of the people.
Consulting hours:
Tuesdays from 5pm to 8pm
Fridays from 10am to 1pm
Consulting hours for children:
1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month, from 3pm to 4.30pm
Consulting hours for women:
2nd and the 4th Wednesday of each month from 10am to 1pm.
Added to our NGOs in Guatemala
Casa del Migrante Nazareth
Website: http://www.migrante.com.mx/index.php
GUATEMALA Office
Address: Casa del Migrante en Guatemala, 15 Ave. 1-94 "A" Zona 1, Guatemala, GUATEMALA.
Contact Tel.:(502) 2230 2781
E-mail:movhuceg [at] quetzal [dot] net (movhuceg[at]quetzal.net)
TECUN UMAN Office
Address: Ave. del Migrante 22, Col. Olguita de Leon, Tecún Umán - Guatemala
Contact Tel. : Area (502) 7776-8416
Fax: (502) 7776-8417
E-Mail: migrantetecun [at] yahoo [dot] com [dot] mx (migrantetecun[at]yahoo.com.mx)
At Casa del Migrante we welcome people that come from the south of Mexico and Central America, or anybody that is going up to the US. We welcome Mexican deportees or repatriates that come from the US. Though we do not work directly with refugees we also have welcomed refugees in the past.
En la Casa del Migrante le damos acogida a personas que vienen desde el sur de México y América Central, o a las personas que están viajando hacia Estados Unidos. También le damos acogida a mexicanos deportados o repatriados que vienen desde Estados Unidos. Si bien no trabajamos con refugiados directamente hemos recibido con asistencia humanitaria a refugiados en el pasado.
Added to our Pro Bono Legal Aid and Other Refugee Services and to out Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Canada
Parkdale Community Legal Services
1266 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M6K 1L3
Phone: +1 416 531 2411
Fax: +1 416 531 0885
Contact person: Geraldine Sadoway: extension -229, email: SadowayG [at] lao [dot] on [dot] ca (SadowayG[at]lao.on.ca)
Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) is a teaching clinic with law students from Osgoode Hall Law School who work under the supervisions of the staff lawyers. PCLS offers assistance in immigration and refugee cases:
- Humanitarian and Compassionate landing applications
- Refugee claims and pre-removal risk assessment applications
- Landing and family reunification of refugees
- Work permits, visitor extensions
- Admittance to schools for immigrant children
- OHIP for immigrants and renewing interim federal health coverage
- Loan application for right of landing fee
- Invitation letters to visitors
- Sponsorship of relatives
- Deportation and sponsorship appeals
- Federal Court applications for judicial review
PCLS's work is free of charge but criteria for taking on cases is limited by geographic area and our own resources. Please contact for more information.
Added to our Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Egypt
مركز النديم للعلاج والتاهيل النفسي
3 ا شارع سليمان الحبي، من شارع رمسيس - القاهرة
El Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence
3A Soliman El Halabi street, from Ramsis street
Cairo, Egypt
Phone: + 202 25787089;
Fax: +202 25776792
Email: elnadeem [at] info [dot] org (elnadeem[at]info.org)
Contact person: Mona Hamed Imam, phone: + 002 01006010050; email: mona [at] alnadeem [dot] org (mona[at]alnadeem.org)
Our center has been providing psychological management and rehabilitation for victims of violence. Our services are free of charge for Egyptians, asylum seekers and refugees. Currently, our legal unit works only for Egyptians but we are handling the legal situation of the others through networking with other organizations.
Added to our NGOs in Israel
Marak Levinski
https://www.facebook.com/soup4lewinski
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel: +972-52-7828252
Email: yaeluna [at] gmail [dot] com (yaeluna[at]gmail.com)
Saving the refugees from starvation with a group of volunteers, the group was founded by Orly Feldheim and Yigal Shtayim.
Levinsky Soup Kitchen is an ad hoc group of local people who prepare food in their homes for the African refugees who, forbidden to work and locked out of their home country, have no other recourse to find basic sustenance.
For more information please contact us.
Added to our NGOs in Mexico
Casa del Migrante Nazareth
Website: http://www.migrante.com.mx/index.php
TIJUANA Office
Address: Casa del Migrante en Tijuana, A.C. Calle Galileo 239 Col. Postal, Tijuana, B.C. 22350
Contact Tel.: (664) 382-7685, (664) 682-5180
E-mail:cdelmigrante [at] yahoo [dot] com (cdelmigrante[at]yahoo.com)
TAPACHULA Office
Address: Casa del Migrante en Tapachula - Albergue Belén, Avenida Hidalgo s/n, Colonia San Antonio Cahoacán, Apartado 87. Tapachula, Chis. C.P. 27900
Contact Tel. : ( 962) 625-4812 Fax (962) 626-7770
E-mail: cdelmigrante [at] yahoo [dot] com (cdelmigrante[at]yahoo.com)
NUEVO LAREDO Office
Address: Calle Francisco I. Madero, # 350 Colonia Victoria, C.P. 38030, NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas.
Contact Tel. : (867) 714 5611
Migrant Reception Opening hours : Every day 4:00pm to 9:30pm
Office hours: Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 1:00pm
E-mail: casamigrantenl [at] yahoo [dot] com (casamigrantenl[at]yahoo.com)
At Casa del Migrante we welcome people that come from the south of Mexico and Central America, or anybody that is going up to the US. We welcome Mexican deportees or repatriates that come from the US. Though we do not work directly with refugees we also have welcomed refugees in the past.
En la Casa del Migrante le damos acogida a personas que vienen desde el sur de México y América Central, o a las personas que están viajando hacia Estados Unidos. También le damos acogida a mexicanos deportados o repatriados que vienen desde Estados Unidos. Si bien no trabajamos con refugiados directamente hemos recibido con asistencia humanitaria a refugiados en el pasado.
Added to our Pro Bono Legal Aid and Other Refugee Services and to out Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Germany
Medibüro Hamburg (medical NGO)
http://www.medibuero-hamburg.org/
WIR Internationales Zentrum
Verikom Hospitalstrasse 109
22767 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 238 558 322
Email: info [at] medibuero-hamburg [dot] org (info[at]medibuero-hamburg.org)
We arrange medical care regardless of your residency permit or health insurance status. We are a non gouvermental, antiracist organisation. Our counseling and arrangement is free of charge and confidential. If possible the medical care we arrange is free as well.
Communication in the following languages is usually possible: German, English, Spanish, French. Interpreters are always welcome.
Consultation hours are Mondays and Thursdays between 3 pm and 5 pm.
Added to our COI Experts for Guatemala
Professor Cecilia Menjivar
Email: menjivar [at] asu [dot] edu (menjivar[at]asu.edu)
Professor Menjivar has written about social and cultural aspects, particularly family, women and gender violence in Guatemala. She is a Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Sociology at the University of Southern California; Master of Science, International Education at the University of Southern California; Master of Arts, Sociology at the University of California, Davis; and Ph.D., Sociology,University of California, Davis . She is a Cowden Distinguished Professor and Associate Director in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University.
Added to our Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Serbia
IAN Center for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims
International Aid Network IAN
Admirala Geprata 10,
11000 Belgrade
Phone: +381 11 7617 197
Fax: +381 11 7617 205
Email: office [at] ian [dot] org [dot] rs (office[at]ian.org.rs)
Contact person: Sandrina Speh Vujadinovic sspeh [at] ian [dot] org [dot] rs (sspeh[at]ian.org.rs)
Those failed asylum seekers with experience of torture or ill-treatment who are deported to Serbia are provided with comprehensive rehabilitation services including psychological, psychiatric, medical, legal and educational support on arrival in Serbia. Even if they are not torture victims, the IAN Centre can provide them free of charge psychological support (counselling and psychotherapy) for those in this kind of need. We have Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and English speakers.
Added to our Post-Deportation Monitoring Network for Lithuania
Lithuanian Red Cross Society
Department of Refugee Affairs
A. Juozapavičiaus g. 10A,
LT-09311 Vilnius
Phone No: (+370 5) 2127322
Fax No: (+370 5) 2619923
Email: info [at] redcross [dot] lt (info[at]redcross.lt)
Contact Person: Aiste Dumbryte: Aiste [dot] dumbryte [at] redcross [dot] lt (Aiste.dumbryte[at]redcross.lt)
The Lithuanian Redcross provides legal, social and humanitarian aid to asylum seekers and recognized refugees. They also provide integration programs through trainings, trips, summer camps and leisure activities as well as operate a consulting center for foreigners in Lithuania. They also have an outreach program to train students, border officers and state officials on working with refugees and asylum-seekers.
They monitor conditions at the point of asylum in the border as well as forced returns/ deportations from Lithuania.
Added to our Pro Bono Legal Aid and Other Refugee Services for Germany
MediNetz Hannover – Medizinische Flüchtlingsberatung e.V. (medical aid for refugees)
http://www.medinetz-hannover.de/
c/o Kargah - Flüchtlingsbüro,
Zur Bettfedernfabrik 3
30451 Hannover
Tel: +49 511 215 30 31, +49 176 811 196 54 (Please leave a message on our answering machine outside office hours. MediNetz will call you back as soon as possible.)
Email: medinetz-hannover [at] gmx [dot] de (medinetz-hannover[at]gmx.de)
MediNetz Hannover gives medical aid to refugees and migrants who don't have documents and makes appointments with doctors of all disciplines. The treatment is anonymous and as far as possible free of cost. MediNetz Hannover does not give any information to governmental institutions and does not collect personal data.
Consultation hours are Mondays between 5:30 pm and 7 pm.
Medinetz Essen - Medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe (medical aid for refugees)
http://www.medinetz-essen.de/index.html
Medinetz Essen e.V.
Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 30
45127 Essen
Tel: +49 201 220 04 19 (If you are calling outside office hours, please leave a message in the answering machine, which is checked regularly.) In emergencies call +49 178 198 29 95.
Email: info [at] medinetz-essen [dot] de (info[at]medinetz-essen.de)
Medinetz Essen is a human rights initiative whose goal is to improve the situation for refugees and migrants who, because of legislation in Germany, are partly or completely denied access to medical assistance.
In our consulting hours we arrange appointments with physicians who are prepared to attend to refugees and migrants anonymously and for free or reduced rates. Consultations can furthermore be arranged for other times and places, if necessary. We guarantee that the consultations will remain confidential regardless. No personal information is collected by our staff. This conversation will help us to decide which type of medical specialist would be best able to provide.
The patient will then be transferred to a doctor who is cooperating with us. Translations can also be arranged if necessary.
Medinetz Essen does not give any information to German authorities. The content of the conversation is strictly confidential.
Consultation hours are Mondays between 6.00 pm and 7.30 pm (except holidays).
Medizinische Flüchtlingshilfe Bielefeld (medical help for refugees)
http://typo3.ak-asyl.info/beratung/med-fluechtlingshilfe/
Kavalleriestraße 26
33602 Bielefeld
(Entrance is on Paulusstrasse)
Tel: +49 521 787 152 45
Email: mfh [at] ak-asyl [dot] info (mfh[at]ak-asyl.info)
The medical help for refugees offers assistance in finding doctors or therapists who treat people without papers or without insurance.
Added to our Information on Unaccompanied and Separated Children
Age Determination
Age Assessment (Scottish Refugee Council, June 2012) Available here
- Practice Guidance and an Information Guide are available.
Position Paper on Age Assessment in the Context of Separated Children in Europe (Separated Children in Europe Programme, 2012). Available here
Protection
A Framework for the Protection of Children (UNHCR, June 2012), available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4fe875682.html
Psychosocial Care
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, vol. 2012, no. 136 (Summer 2012).Available here and [Google preview here]
- Special issue on “Independent Child Migration—Insights into Agency, Vulnerability, and Structure.”
Added to our COI Experts for Bolivia
Daniel Goldstein
Email:dgoldstein [at] anthropology [dot] rutgers [dot] edu (dgoldstein[at]anthropology.rutgers.edu)
Daniel Goldstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University since June 2007. He has a B.A. in Anthropology, Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. He has presented, researched and written extensively on Bolivia and Latin America.
Added to our NGOs in Guatemala
Bufete Popular Universidad Rafael Landívar
Website: http://www.url.edu.gt/PortalURL/Principal_01.aspx?s=76
Address: Dirección: 13 calle 2-73 zona 1, Guatemala, Guatemala.
Phone: (502) 22305111-17-21-31
email: cpabril [at] url [dot] edu [dot] gt (cpabril[at]url.edu.gt)
The legal Clinic or "bufete Popular" of Universidad Rafael Landívar is part of the Social and Legal Sciences Faculty. We provide legal advice and practical training of students en their professional development. We provide legal advice in diverse matters, including advice to refugees. Legal advice is free to those that lack means to pay.
Added to our NGOs in Honduras
CIPRODEH
Address: Colonia Florencia Norte, Bloque K, Primera calle, casa 4036. Tegucigalpa
Contact email: ciprodeh [at] cablecolor [dot] hn (ciprodeh[at]cablecolor.hn)
Contact telephone : (504) 22323572, 22323553, 22320857
fax: (504) 22323519.
CIPRODEH is a human rights organization, which has a programme of free legal assistance to asylum seekers, refugees and foreign nationals that wish to regularize their migratory status and have limited economic resources.
Added to our Post-deportation monitoring Network for South Africa
Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town
Rebecca Chennells, Advocacy Officer
Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town
47 Commercial Street
Cape Town, 8001
Phone: +27 (0)21 465 6433
Fax: +27 (0)21 465 6317
Email: rebecca [at] scalabrini [dot] org [dot] za (rebecca[at]scalabrini.org.za)
Perceiving migration as an opportunity, the Scalabrini Centre (established in 2002) is committed to alleviating poverty and promoting development in the Western Cape while fostering integration between migrants, refugees and
South Africans. In providing our assistance we advocate respect for human rights and use a holistic approach that considers all basic needs. The Centre works with all nationalities and issues and our programmes include:
. Advocacy Programme
. Counselling services
. Employment Access Programme
. English School
. Health Clinic
. Lawrence House Children's Home
. Welfare Programme
For those asylum seekers and migrants who are at risk of deportation, the Advocacy Programme is now developing a manual for to inform migrants about their rights and how the legal system should operate. The Advocacy Programme also offers basic legal assistance regarding asylum claims, appeals, access to refugee offices and services, and provides referrals to other organisations.
Added to out Post-deportation monitoring network for Sri Lanka
SANRIM/ Lakshan Dias Associates
Contact:
Mr Lakshan Dias
Attorney At Law
10/2 Mendis Lane,
Idama, Moratuwa,
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
mobile phone: +94 (0)757119417, +94 (0)714534527
Skype: lakshanjagath
Email: lakshandias [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk (lakshandias[at]yahoo.co.uk); sanrimsl [at] yahoo [dot] com (sanrimsl[at]yahoo.com)
SANRIM is an NGO for returnees, deportees, refugees, IDPs and migrants based in Colombo. They provide protection visitations and pro-bono legal support as well as expert evidence, and documentary evidence for asylum cases. SANRIM picks deportees up from BIA Airport Katunayake, Colombo. They have a team of volunteers and paralegals to support this work and they are a member of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APPRN).
SANRIM works closely with Lakshan Dias Associates, a law firm that files fundamental rights cases in the supreme court of Sri Lanka as well as cases under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) , and cases in High Court on PTA. Moreover, Lakshan Dias Associates have access to individuals in detention centers, prisons and police stations.
Added to our Post-deportation monitoring network for Germany
MediNetzBonn e.V. - Medizinische Beratungs- und Vermittlungsstelle für Flüchtlinge (medical NGO)
MediNetzBonn e.V.
Oscar-Romero-Haus
Heerstr. 205
D - 53111 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 695266
Email: info [at] medinetzbonn [dot] de (info[at]medinetzbonn.de)
Since its foundation in 2003 MediNetzBonn has established a network offering anonymous medical, dental and psychological treatment free of charge for undocumented migrants from non-EU countries who reside in Bonn.
MediNetzBonn helps to get appointments at medical specialists and assists in finding translators. If needed Medinetz Bon will meet you outside consultation hours at a place other than their office. In case of hospitalisation, clients may have to contribute financially.
Added to our COI experts for El Salvador
Professor Cecilia Menjivar
Menjivar [at] asu [dot] edu (Menjivar[at]asu.edu)
Professor Menjivar has written about social and cultural aspects, particularly family, women, and gender of El Salvador as well as the situation of Salvadorian migration. She is a Bachelor of Arts, Psychology and Sociology at the University of Southern California; Master of Science, International Education at the University of Southern California; Master of Arts, Sociology at the University of California, Davis; and Ph.D., Sociology,University of California, Davis . She is a Cowden Distinguished Professor and Associate Director in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University.
Added to our information on the situation of failed asylum seekers:
Human Rights Watch (2012): United Kingdom: Halt Deportation Flight to Sri Lanka. Urgently review Tamil Allegations of Torture
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a document on the situation of rejected asylum seekers in Sri Lanka. The document gives an account of Ethnic Tamils being subjected to arbitrary arrest, torture and other ill-treatment by local authorities after their arrival in Sri Lanka. Having submitted the document to the UK Immigration minister HRW urges the UK government to impose a moratorium on returns, to review relevant UK policies and to introduce new risk assessment guidelines. Although the UK Border Agency acknowledges reports of torture being a widespread practice in Sri Lanka, a blind eye is turned to evidence that Tamils deported to Sri Lanka risk torture on arrival, according to HRW.
Added to our NGOs in Argentiina
Fundación Comisión Católica Argentina de Migraciones
Website: http://www.migracionesfccam.org.ar/r_refugiados.html
Address:Laprida 930 - Capital Federal, C.P. 1187 -Bs. As., Argentina
Contact telephone: (+54 11) 49631520
Fax: (+54 11) 4962 8175
Contact email: mail [at] migracionesfccam [dot] org [dot] ar (mail[at]migracionesfccam.org.ar)
Fundación Comisión Católica Argentina de Migraciones
For more than thirty years FCCAM implements assistance plans developed by UNHCR. FCCAM Works within four areas in cooperation with other civil society organizations and UNHCR.
1. FCCAM provides within its Social Area access to the study of Spanish courses, to the Health Service, employment skills training and a clothes bank as well as other projects.
2. Within the Legal Area of work FCCAM provides assistance with regards to the asylum seeking process in Argentina, its stages, consequences and the rights and obligations that asylum seekers and refugees have. FCCAM also provides advice in areas such as accessing education, work or housing due to lack of documentation. We also assist those that need help with family reunification or voluntary repatriation. Though FCCAM does not provide legal representation in court, it will help to refer cases and provide assistance together with other governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
3. Mental Health: We provide individual interviews for refugees and asylum seekers in order to detect mental health issues with the aim to work towards supporting individuals in such issues.
4. Housing: FCCAM searches for alternatives that combine existing resources and allow to provide housing solutions at a national and local level.
Added to our NGOs in the United Kingdom
Coram Children’s Legal Centre
http://www.childrenslegalcentre.com/
Address: Coram Children's Legal Centre University of Essex Wivenhoe Park , Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ DX: 3616 Colchester
Tel: 01206 877910 Fax: 01206 877963
E-mail: clc[at]essex.ac.uk
Tel (for migrant legal advice): 0207 636 8505 - line open 10am to 6pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Email: mcp[at]essex.ac.uk
The Migrant Children's Project offers one-to-one advice on all issues affecting migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee children and young people, including: immigration and asylum law and policy, nationality and citizenship, support and accommodation, age assessment, education, work and training, and healthcare.
Added to our NGOs in Kenya
Heshima Kenya
http://www.heshimakenya.org/index.html
Address: Operations Office
P.O. Box 63192-00619
Nairobi, Kenya
Email: info[at]heshimakenya.org
Heshima Kenya specializes in identifying and protecting separated and orphaned refugee minors living in Nairobi, Kenya. Our shelter, education and community outreach services, coupled with local resources and the refugee community, enable and empower unaccompanied refugee minors, especially adolescent girls, to live healthy lives.
Added to our COI experts for Chad and Sudan
Jérôme Tubiana
Email: tubiana [at] gmail [dot] com
Jerome Tubiana holds a PhD in African Studies and is a specialist on Sudan (in particular Darfur), Chad and the Horn of Africa. Over the past fifteen years he has conducted or participated in around twenty field research missions in northern and eastern Chad, western and South Sudan and eastern Niger, initially focusing on the Tubu and Beri peoples. Since 2004, Jerome has worked in Sudan and Chad as a research consultant for various NGOs as well as for the United States Institute of Peace, USAID, the African Union and the UN Security Council Panel on the Sudan. Jerome’s expertise lies in conflicts, causes of conflicts, armed movements and peace processes.
Added to our NGOs in Mexico
Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Matías de Córdova A. C.
Address: 1era Norte No. 37, Col. Centro (Entre 3era y 5ta Oriente) CP. 30700. Tapachula, Chiapas.
Website: http://www.cdhfraymatias.org/index.html
Email: direccion [at] cdhfraymatias [dot] org (direccion[at]cdhfraymatias.org) – defensa [at] cdhfraymatias [dot] org (defensa[at]cdhfraymatias.org)
Phone number: (01) 962 6425098
Fray Matías de Córdoba (CDH Fray Matías) Center for Human Rights is a non-profit Civil Organization, independent of any government or political ideology or religious creed, founded in 1994. Ours work is based on defense and promotion of human rights, especially for the migrants, asylum seekers and refugees and their families who live in the southern border of Chiapas, Mexico. We provide Pro-Bono advice, orientation and legal representation in paradigmatic cases.
Added to our NGOs in El Salvador
Clinica de Asistencia Legal de la Universidad General Gerardo Barrios.
Website: www.ugb.edu.sv
Address: Avenida Las Magnolias, Calle Las Flores 200 metros, al sur de DIDEA, San Miguel, El Salvador
Contact telephone: 2545-6506
Contact email: Coordinator: Lic. Krissia Morena aguirre Rosa
E-mail: krismar1979 [at] ugb [dot] edu [dot] sv (krismar1979[at]ugb.edu.sv)
“The Clinica de Asistencia legal provides free legal advice and support to those that have economic dificulties, whether they are nationals, foreign migrants or refugees. Also, the facultad de Ciencias Juridicas provides support to migrants regarding their labour rights.”
Added to our COI experts in Guinea-Bissau
Dr Henrik Erdman Vigh
Email:henrik.vigh[at]anthro.ku.dk
Dr Vigh is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. He completed his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2003. Vigh is the author of Navigating Terrains of War (Berghahn, 2006). He has researched issues of youth and conflict in both Europe and West Africa and has done extensive fieldwork in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. His areas of expertise are centered on network politics, non-state agents of violence and power. He is currently heading a comparative research project focusing on undocumented and irregular migration from Africa to Europe
Added to our COI Experts in Guatemala
Dr Deborah T Levenson
Email: levensod[at]bc.edu
Dr. Deborah T. Levenson is an associate professor of history at BC and an affiliate of the Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala, located in Guatemala City. She has written extensively about Guatemala since 1983. Her work has centered on labor unions, violence and gangs. Her most recent book is Adiós Niño, The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, published by Duke University Press.
Added to our NGOs in El Salvador
Programa de Atención a Personas Refugiadas (PARES)
Iglesia Episcopal Anglicana de El Salvador
Address: Oficina de Derechos Humanos y Asistencia Legal
Av. Sierra Nevada, #914 B, Col. Miramonte, S.S.
Contact number: (503) 2261 1858 * (503) 2260 0422 * (503) 2260 1541
Contact email: pareselsalvador [at] yahoo [dot] com (pareselsalvador[at]yahoo.com)
The Iglesia Episcopal Anglicana de El Salvador, is UNHCR´s partner organization. Its aim is to support all asylum seekers in El Salvador as well as those that already have refugee status. We provide legal aid to all asylum seekers and refugees free of charge.
Added to our NGOs in the UK
Access to Justice Project
Refugee Action
Website: http://www.refugee-action.org.uk/ourwork/projects/accesstojustice.aspx
To refer someone to the Project, please contact:
Bristol: 0117 941 5960
anthonyj [at] refugee-action [dot] org (anthonyj[at]refugee-action.org)
Manchester and Liverpool: 0161 831 5434
catherineh [at] refugee-action [dot] org [dot] uk (catherineh[at]refugee-action.org.uk)
London: 020 7952 1552
philipb [at] refugee-action [dot] org [dot] uk (philipb[at]refugee-action.org.uk)
The Access to Justice Project helps asylum seekers who have been refused Controlled Legal Representation (CLR) - i.e. Legal Aid for their asylum appeal - to challenge that refusal and, if successful, to find new legal representatives. Subject to certain limitations eligibility criteria and to capacity, the Project will accept referrals of all asylum seekers who have been refused Controlled Legal Representation within each area and challenge those refusals regardless of the perceived merit of their case. Capacity will be slightly different in each area. Initial target capacity for each office will be:
Bristol - 55 cases per year
Manchester and Liverpool – 70 cases per year
London – 85 cases per year
The project is initially funded until 31st March, 2013 only.
Added to our COI experts in Namibia
Dr John Friedman
Email: j.friedman[at]roac.nl
Dr. Friedman is Associate Professor in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Development at Utrecht University’s Roosevelt Academy in The Netherlands. His field of expertise is in Namibian politics and the state, incorporating such issues as history, government, development, indigenous rights, democratization, traditional leadership, and customary law. In addition, Dr. Friedman has conducted research on one of southern Africa's biggest (and most controversial) proposed dams, the Lower Kunene River Hydroeclectric Project, as well as on various issues relating to youth development. He has been working and researching in Namibia since the early 1990s. Amongst his publications are Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia (2011); ‘Context and Contestation in the Development Process: Lessons from Kaokoland (Namibia)’ (2009); ‘Making Politics, Making History: Chiefship and the Post-Apartheid State in Namibia’ (2005); and ‘Mapping the Epupa Debate: Discourse and Representation in a Namibian Development Project’ (2000).
Added to our NGOs in Israel
We Are Refugees (Anu Plitim)
http://www.facebook.com/WeAreRefugees (english)
http://www.facebook.com/AnuPlitim (hebrew)
http://www.wearerefugees.org/wp/ (english - under construction)
Tel: +972-3-5186642
Fax: +972-3-5189663
Address: Reg. NGO No. 580530442
11 Tuval St.
Ramat-Gan 52522, Israel
Email: anu [dot] plitim [at] gmail [dot] com
"We are Refugees" is a non-profit organisation founded on October 2010, by a group of lawyers who represent detained asylum seekers and refugees in Israel on a pro-bono basis. We Are Refugees has submitted a large number of petitions, of which 85% were granted, releasing the petitioners from prison. We have established several legal precedents that assist the general population of asylum seekers in Israel, and submitted principal petitions to the High Court of Justice regrading refugees rights in general and on urgent issues.
Added to our COI experts in Sri Lanka
Dr Timmo Gaasbeek
Email: timmogaasbeek[at]gmail.com
Dr. Gaasbeek lived and worked in Sri Lanka between September 2000 and December 2008. During this period, he lived in Colombo, Batticaloa and Trincomalee, as well as spending short periods in Mannar and Kilinochchi. Dr. Gaasbeek conducted PhD research at Wageningen University on the topic of 'everyday inter-ethnic interaction' in the southern part of Trincomalee District. This research included in-depth study of day-to-day relations between people of different ethnic groups and patterns of violence. It included over 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork
Added to our NGOs in Nigeria
Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme (PADEAP)
Address: 135 Zaria Road
Box 130 Funtua, Katsina State, Nigeria
Tel: +234 69 77 1526
Email: info_ng[at]padeap.net
PADEAP started working with refugees in 2001. The project works with urban refugees in Kampala. In 2009 in order to deliver its services and the advocacy work to those living in rural areas PADEAP extended its programme to the refugee settlement of Nakivale.