Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter

The Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is a monthly electronic publication that provides news, reflection, and learning on the provision of refugee legal aid. It is aimed primarily to be a resource for legal aid providers in the Global South where law journals and other resources are hard to access. It complements the information portal, http://www.frlan.org. The newsletter follows recent developments in the interpretation of refugee law; case law precedents from different constituencies; reports and helpful resources for refugee legal aid providers; and stories of struggle and success in refugee legal aid work.

a monthly forum for news and discussion on refugee legal aid 

Issue 24, March 2012        
ISSN 2049-2650
Editorial Team: Yara Romariz Maasri, Themba Lewis, Nora Danielson, Sara Gonzalez Devant, Annemarie Hulbert, Janet McGiffin

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In this issue:

How to apply for asylum in Brazil

Practice Advisory on Interim Memo regarding law students, graduates and other representatives appearing before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

The importance of psychosocial support in the refugee status determination process

Asylum approval rate in Japan still shockingly low

Changes to refugee system in Canada further undermine refugees

Italy rebuked by European Court after deportations of Somali and Eritrean asylum seekers

Statement on Kenyan Government plan to relocate refugees back to Somalia

Deportation news

Syrian refugees in Europe: news from Belgium and Sweden

Syrians in Jordan: Guests, not refugees

Democratic Republic of Congo London embassy staff resign and claim asylum

Open letter from Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in Djibouti

Letter from the Rwandan Refugee Community in Zambia to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

Refugees in Brazil denounce ‘exploitation network’

Request for Sahrawi COI expert

Publications

Country of Origin and legal news

Conferences and courses

Info links

Resources

Vacancy announcements

Announcements

Scholarships for African Commonwealth candidates for University of Oxford part-time masters in International Human Rights Law

Unless stated otherwise, opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of the authors, and do not reflect the position of the organisations that they are or have been formerly affiliated with, the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Network, or the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter.
 
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Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter is published by Fahamu Trust and Fahamu Ltd., 2nd floor, 51 Cornmarket Street, Oxford OX1 3HA, UK. Tel +44 (0)1865 727006, fax +44 (0)1865 727909, email info[at]fahamu.org. Fahamu Ltd was established in the UK in 1997. Fahamu Ltd was registered and incorporated as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee in 2001 (no. 4241054). Fahamu has offices in Oxford, UK; Nairobi, Kenya; Dakar, Senegal; and Cape Town, South Africa. Fahamu Ltd is registered in Kenya as F15/2006. Board of directors: Belinda Allan, Paddy Coulter OBE, Shereen Karmali, Hakima Abbas. Fahamu Trust was registered as a charity in the UK (no. 1100304) in July 2003, with the following objectives: ‘the advancement of education of the public world wide by the publication of electronic newsletters, courses and disseminating of information on human rights’. Fahamu SA is registered as a trust in South Africa IT 37201. Board of trustees: Belinda Allan, Paddy Coulter OBE, Patricia O. Daley, Maina Kiai, Onyekachi Wambu, Rob Wells. Executive director: Hakima Abbas. Fahamu’s website is www.fahamu.org
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