Our members

“DESYATE KVITNYA” (“THE TENTH OF APRIL”) is an independent, humanitarian, non-governmental and non-profit organisation, which is based in Odessa, Ukraine. Our main goal is contributing to development of civil society and strengthening the rule of law in Ukraine. The Organisation was founded on August 01, 2012, and was named after the date of birth of the prominent Dutch legal scholar Hugo Grotius. The Organisation was created by the efforts of like-minded human rights activists with professional experience of over 10 years and a particular expertise in refugee rights protection. 
The Organisation provides free legal aid and a limited scope of social assistance to such vulnerable groups as asylum seekers, refugees, internally displaced people, stateless persons and Roma people. The Ogranisation’s activities also include monitoring of human rights protection in Ukraine, cooperation with other stakeholders, and capacity-building actions. Our overall aim is solving the most challenging human rights problems.

Detention Action is a registered charity which challenges the dehumanising effect of immigration detention policy on migrants and asylum seekers in the UK.  We defend the rights and improve the welfare of people in detention by combining support for individuals with campaigning for policy change.  We work alongside people in detention both to seek their own release and to advocate for systemic change, enabling their voices to be heard.  Formerly known as London Detainee Support Group, our volunteer visitors have given emotional support to people in detention since 1993.  We work primarily in the Harmondsworth and Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centres.  We adopted the new name of Detention Action in May 2011, reflecting our evolution from simply visiting detainees to initiating policy change. 

The Austrian Diakonie Refugee Service works in the following areas: Counselling, care and support, housing and accommodation, Education and training, Integration and Medical and psychotherapeutic treatment with asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and Austrians alike. Working in eight Austrian states, through 45 facilities, with close to 700 employees and approximately 600 volunteers, Refugee Service supports its clients so as to achieve their equality of opportunity, self-determination and full societal participation. The Diakonie Refugee Service defines itself as a human rights organisation; its work centres on advocacy for refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. We work actively to prevent racism and discrimination through training and projects. In our public relations and lobbying work, we advocate for the legal, social and economic equality of foreigners who are permanent residents in Austria and Austrians alike.

The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) is an independent international organisation, established to combat discrimination and promote equality as a fundamental human right and a basic principle of social justice. An advocacy organisation, resource centre and think-tank, ERT focuses on the complex and complementary relationship between different types of discrimination, developing strategies for translating principles of equality into practice. 

ERT specialises in nationality and statelessness issues, recognising undocumented and stateless persons as particularly vulnerable to discrimination and prioritising the need to strengthen their protection. ERT’s statelessness work is global in scale, with a strong focus on particularly vulnerable stateless communities including the Rohingya of Myanmar. However, much of ERT’s research, advocacy, training, awareness raising and standard setting work is relevant to Europe. ERT’s engagement on statelessness has particularly focussed on the detention and discrimination of stateless persons.

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is a Budapest-based international public interest law organisation established in 1996 and working to combat anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma through strategic litigation, research and policy development, advocacy and human rights education.  The ERRC’s website includes research reports, the ERRC’s journal (Roma Rights), advocacy submissions sent to national, European and international bodies, and other materials about the ERRC’s work and Roma rights in general.  The ERRC is currently litigating some 60 cases in domestic and European courts concerning Roma rights violations in eleven European countries.

 At the moment, the ERRC is focusing on seven thematic priorities.  Statelessness relates most closely to three of these:  identity documents; women’s and children’s rights; and free movement and migration.   The ERRC comes across Roma at risk of statelessness in all of its areas of work, particularly outside the EU and especially in Balkan countries.  Stateless Roma (and Roma at risk of statelessness) often lack the documents they need to get healthcare, go to school, access to employment, travel across borders, or secure formal recognition of their family relationships. They tell us they feel invisible.

Female Fellows e.V is a non-profit organisation with the mission to empower, inform, include and integrate third-country national women alongside host country female fellows in social, economic and political aspects of their societies in Germany and in Europe. Our vision is to build a society where everyone, including women with migrant and refugee background in Germany and Europe, have a decent and comfortable life together with their female fellows.

Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid was founded in December 2018 to respond to the dire lack of legal representation and information available to refugees on the island of Lesvos, Greece who were escaping their war-torn homes. Fenix fights for the basics: legal assistance, empowerment through information, and the agency of refugees to navigate their own future. We seek to replace charity with empowerment. 
Our field team is based in Lesvos and is made up of lawyers, psychologists, translators, and protection officers. We provide information to refugees about their rights under international law, help present family reunification claims, assist with interview preparation, and facilitate the acquisition of documents and medical and psychological assessments. As part of our daily work in the field, we help refugees navigate the day-to-day frustrations that are part of their daily lives and the often-changing asylum process. 

Forum Réfugiés works to protect the needs and promote the rights of all asylum seekers, stateless persons and refugees. The four main activities of our association are: reception and legal accompaniment of asylum seekers, integration through work and accommodation of refugees, medical and psychological accompaniment, and legal counselling in administrative retention centres. Forum Réfugiés translates its practical work into policy and advocacy activities which aim at raising awareness about the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in France and Europe. Forum Réfugiés  has developed a strong experience and expertise with regards to legislative advocacy. It promotes protection-oriented legislative reforms and policy initiatives at the national and European levels.

FAR (Foundation for Access to Rights) is an NGO aiming to establish a solid ground for access to rights in practice in Bulgaria. FAR’s mission is to increase the institutional and public awareness, sensitivity and commitment to the need to address systemic problems in access to basic human rights in Bulgaria. It further aims to contribute to the development of a favourable legislative environment in line with European and International standards for the protection of human rights and the establishment of best practices on access to rights. Among other activities, FAR predominantly provides free legal assistance to refugees, immigrants and stateless persons. It carries out trainings about the rights of vulnerable groups of persons

Fundación Cepaim's main mission is the provision of comprehensive support to migrants, asylum seekers, stateless persons, as well as nationals, in order to promote social cohesion and fight poverty and social exclusion. Through cooperation with public institutions, private actors and stakeholders, its goal is to achieve an inclusive, diverse and multicultural society, and to enhance communications and relationships between individuals with different social and cultural backgrounds. It is inspired by the principles of equality and non discrimination, cultural diversity, social justice, solidarity, and social transformation. There are different fields where Fundación Cepaim implements its activities focusing on the enhancement of an inclusive society: reception and international protection, employment, youth and family support, community-based development, equality and non discrimination, international cooperation, housing, interculturality and rural development. Its advocacy work aims to promote research, training, and to raise awareness and achieve social advancements in the fields of migration, social and residential exclusion, social vulnerability and cooperation with developing countries.
Fundación Cepaim are part of the International Protection National Reception System which includes beneficiaries and applicants of stateless status in Spain, and it offers them accommodation and cover their basic needs while affording them free legal and psychological aid and interpretation, and the assistance of social workers in their pathway to integration in Spain.