?? July 2024 Newsletter | Tangible steps to Meaningful Refugee Participation
Asylum Access
We provide advocacy, community empowerment, and legal services to refugees ??. Proudly refugee-led
Dear?Friend,
We're delighted to bring you the latest updates on our work to support forcibly displaced communities.
We recently participated in UNHCR's Global Consultations with NGOs, a key dialogue space held annually in Geneva. While we value the opportunity to engage with UNHCR and our peers across the sector, we recognize the potential to further improve the meaningful participation of refugee leaders at this important forum. You can read our thoughts and reflections in our latest blog post. For further insights on practical steps toward meaningful refugee participation, you can also access the latest report from Cohere?on the subject, to which we were expert contributors.?
Our national organizations in Mexico and Thailand have also been strengthening their collaborative efforts with refugee communities in both countries. In this edition, you can read about workshops supporting refugee businesswomen and the first major event held by the Myanmar Response Network.
Finally, following the highly contested results of Sunday's election, we wish to express our solidarity with our Venezuelan peers, colleagues, and friends during this time of painful?uncertainty and civil unrest as the fight for freedom, justice, and the full enjoyment of human rights continues.
With gratitude,
The Communications Team
Reflections on the 2024 UNHCR global consultations with NGOs
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)’s Global Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have been convened for 30 years as a space to exchange ideas, identify policy priorities, and inform collaboration between UNHCR and NGOs. Asylum Access, a regular attendee, participated in this important forum from June 11-13, 2024, in Geneva, represented by?Deepa Nambiar, Director of Partnerships, and Interim Co-CEOs?Rouba Anka?and?Lisa D’Annunzio?(pictured above). As part of our ongoing efforts to promote refugee participation and leadership, we shared some of our thoughts and recommendations in our latest blog post.
Equitable partnerships position paper and toolkit now available in Spanish
Earlier this year, we released our position paper and accompanying toolkit on equitable partnerships.?These resources offer a framework to strengthen accountability in partnerships with local civil society in ways that are rooted in equity, power-sharing, and uplifting local and refugee leadership. We are pleased to share that these useful resources are now also available in Spanish.
Asylum Access and RRLI contribute to Cohere guide on meaningful refugee participtation
Our friends at Cohere released an important report: “Five Organisational Pathways for Enabling Meaningful Refugee Participation: A Step-by-Step Implementation Guide.”?This report is a practical roadmap, with carefully curated, tested, and actionable pathways that empower refugee response organizations to enhance their practices. We were very glad to be invited as expert contributors to this report alongside brilliant refugee leaders and allies from across our sector.
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#TodasJuntas: Asylum Access Mexico kicks off series of business management workshops for refugee women
Asylum Access Mexico held a series of workshops in Tijuana and Mexico City to support refugee women start their own businesses as part of its Hospitality Route program. In the workshops, titled #TodasJuntas (All Together), the businesswomen were coached in entrepreneurship and business management to help make their dreams a success and to support their economic integration in Mexico. The workshops also provided a valuable opportunity for the women to connect and form a support network. A big thanks to Centro 32 and?Sparkassenstiftung Alemana Latinoamérica y el Caribe for making the initiative possible!
Myanmar Response Network releases first policy report in Mae Sot event
Following the launch of its inaugural report earlier this year, the Myanmar Response Network (MRN) brought together policymakers, academics, civil society, and refugee communities to discuss the findings and next steps. The event included a moving traditional dance performance by students from the Children on the Move Network. MRN is a network of seven NGOs, including Asylum Access Thailand, that?work on different issues to respond to the humanitarian needs and human rights of refugees from Myanmar.
Featured positions
Our open positions accept applications on a rolling basis and will close once a suitable number of candidates have applied--so apply soon! Further open positions can be found on the Careers section of our website.
Green Border by Agnieszka Holland
‘Green Border’ (2024) by Agnieszka Holland is a gripping dramatization of the very real human rights abuses carried out against forcibly displaced individuals and families trapped between Poland and Belarus. The film centers on a Syrian family, an Afghan English teacher, a Polish border guard, and a group of Polish humanitarian activists as their lives become tangled up with one another as a result of the damage inflicted by new anti-asylum policies. Green Border is screening now in select cinemas across the US and Europe.
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