Our members

Legal Center Montenegro is a non-governmental organization, established in 2007 with a mandate to provide counselling, legal assistance on behalf of displaced persons from Kosovo and refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina - particularly members of minority groups such as the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian (RAE) communities who often lack documents and face discrimination. It especially strives to contribute to the prevention of statelessness which particularly affects the RAE population displaced during the conflicts in the region, and to ensure their equal access to rights. 

The Legal Information Centre for Human Rights (LICHR) was founded in May 1994. In its activities the LICHR has mapped four high priority strategic spheres. Firstly, conflict prevention: identifying the causes of potential conflicts through analysis and dissemination of information, as well as by enhancement of awareness and knowledge about the human and minority rights. Secondly, fostering the creation of a society based on human rights. Thirdly, analysis of the legislation for its conformity with the international instruments on human and minority rights. Fourthly, the provision of legal advice and aid (through hotline, online and personal consultations) to individuals and groups of individuals, whose rights are violated or are not duly guaranteed.

Leonhard Call-Blaßnig holds Master degrees in Law and Social Anthropology, both from the University of Vienna. He has been working as legal counsellor for refugees and asylum-seekers at Austrian NGOs since 2008. He also held positions at UNHCR Austria where he, inter alia, conducted research on birth registration and the identification and determination of statelessness. Areas of research and interest include: statelessness determination procedures, access of stateless persons to social rights, anthropology of human rights.

Lithuanian Red Cross (LRC) is a humanitarian organization that provides different kinds of assistance to asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and stateless people in Lithuania. LRC monitors conduct border monitoring, which covers monitoring at the borders, asylum seekers' detention and accommodation centers and initial asylum interviews. LRC lawyers provide regular legal consultations to asylum seekers at the borders, detention and accommodation centers, as well as legal counseling to stateless people, residing in the territory of Lithuania. The focus of LRC strategic litigation is on asylum cases, detention of vulnerable asylum seekers cases and non penalization for illegal border crossing cases. LRC case managers assist asylum seekers at community based accommodation and refugees during their integration in municipalities. LRC runs two one stop shop centers in Kaunas and Klaipeda, where any foreigner can receive social, employment, legal, psychological assistance, learn Lithuanian language, get orientation courses and participate in community events. LRC advocacy focuses on reception conditions and asylum procedures, integration, community based accommodation for most vulnerable people, family reunification. LRC also provides Restoring Family Links services to those people, who are in need to contact, trace or reunite with their family members.

The Liverpool Law Clinic is part of the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. The Clinic provides a free legal service. Third year law students work on immigration and asylum cases, including the cases of stateless people, under the extremely close supervision of qualified lawyers who are specialists in the field. Staff at the Law Clinic started this work in 2013 and now contribute to policy initiatives at national and international level.

Lynn was born as a stateless Palestinian in Syria. In 2014, Lynn arrived in Sweden and has since been working to raise awareness on the impact statelessness has on people living in Europe. She has been advocating for better treatment and respect of stateless people's rights. She has spoken at various regional and national events on the issue, and is an active member of the European Network on Statelessness and the Swedish Organisation Against Statelessness.

The Macedonian Young Lawyers Association (MYLA) is an association of lawyers established in 2004 to serve the needs of the local community for qualified and easily accessible pro bono legal service related to the protection of human rights and freedoms and support to the socially marginalized groups. MYLA monitors implementation of laws and regulations related to protection of human rights, anti-discrimination, birth registration and prevention and reduction of statelessness through screening of the legal implementation process, analytical work and preparation and publication of reports.

I am a French and New York licensed attorney. I studied one year in South Korea, earned a JD from Sorbonne Law school and completed an LL.M from UCLA. I helped a charity foundation to promote children’s rights in Bangladesh. I lived in Boston for 2 years and assisted an association in the field of sexual violence in civil society and in the incarcerated population. As a probono attorney, I helped underrepresented residents with cognitive impairments to access US citizenship. Finally, I am an active legal fellow of UnitedStateless, an organization promoting human rights for stateless individuals in the US. I intend to join the immigration committee of Lille bar and help people by providing free legal advice but also by supporting them on their journey to access citizenship. I have a strong interest in ethics and justice and wishes to further structural changes to prevent civil rights violations.

Manuela Sissy Brucker has practiced as a lawyer in Berlin for 12 years. She is on the honorary board of the NGO Christopher-Street-Day in Berlin, and in November 2012 published a dissertation on Human Rights and the right to a nationality. 

Maria Julia is a Costa Rican lawyer, human rights consultant, and former legal advisor for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, where she collaborated in the statelessness division. She has been working on statelessness issues since 2016 for the Costa Rican government, and as a consultant for UNHCR. Currently Maria Julia is undertaking the LLM in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex.