Our members

Refugee Action is an independent national charity working with refugees to build new lives in the UK. We provide practical advice and assistance for newly arrived asylum seekers and long‐term commitment to their settlement through community development work. We also provide confidential, impartial and non-directive advice and information to asylum seekers and irregular migrants who are considering whether to return to their country of origin voluntarily. We campaign for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and work to ensure their voices are heard in public policy and the media. As one of the country’s leading agencies in the field, Refugee Action has over 20 years’ experience in pioneering innovative work in partnership with refugees.

The Refugee Council is one of the leading charities in the UK working directly with refugees, and supporting them to rebuild their lives. We also speak up for refugees using our direct work as an evidence base, and ensure refugees have a stronger and more influential voice in decisions that will affect them. We work with a range of partners and in collaboration to ensure we can best support our clients.
The charity was founded in 1951 in response to the UN Convention for Refugees, which was created after World War II to ensure refugees were able to find safety in other countries. Since then, the Refugee Council has provided practical and emotional support to refugees from across the world to help them rebuild their lives and play a full part in society.
 

We are a street-law-clinic, providing legal consultation and working on cases related to migration and asylum law in Germany, since eastern 2015. We were established by law-students as a private club/students-initiative, in cooperation with our university and some professors. We are supported, pro-bono, by professional experts (lawyers). They supervise our work and can also take cases, when it is necessary.

The Refugee Law Clinic is a project conducted by law students from Cologne which supports migrants, in particular refugees and asylum seekers. They offer pro-bono legal and non-legal advice and other support, e.g. accompanying and giving guidance to clients when attending appointments with the border agency. To that end the Refugee Law Clinic collaborates with qualified lawyers and other charity organisations.

‘Refugee Rights Turkey’ is an independent human rights organization based in Istanbul, which provides legal information and assistance services to asylum seekers and other vulnerable migrants, organizes trainings and generates reference materials for lawyers and NGO workers, and advocates for improvements in Turkey’s legislation and policy concerning the legal protection of refugees and migrants in line with international standards. From 2005 to 2015, the organization existed by the name of ‘Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly – Refugee Advocacy and Support Program’ (HCA-RASP). As of March 2015 it was formally transitioned into a new organizational framework and rebranded ‘Refugee Rights Turkey’. It remains a leading civil society voice on refugee and migrant protection issues in Turkey and internationally.

Reinhard Marx has practiced as a lawyer in Germany since 1983 with a specific focus on immigration and refugee law as well as law on statelessness and citizenship. He is the author of law books and numerous contributions in journals with respect to these items. 

René De Groot is Professor of Comparative Law and Private International Law in Maastricht, Aruba and Hasselt. He studied Law at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands) and at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster (Germany). Since 1982, he has taught Private Law, Comparative Law and Private International Law at Maastricht University, where he obtained the degree of Doctor iuris and was later appointed as Professor. He has published extensively on comparative law, private international law, legal education, problems of legal translation, the law of property and nationality law. He is a consortium member of the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship, contributing a number of comparative studies of nationality legislation, including on birthright citizenship. He has worked closely with the Council of Europe in the development of regional standards relating to the regulation of nationality, including in the role of Scientific Expert of the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists on Nationality. He recently prepared a paper on ‘Preventing Statelessness among Children: Interpreting Articles 1-4 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and Relevant International Human Rights Norms’ for UNHCR, helping to guide an Expert Meeting on the same question in May 2011.

Right to Protection is a Ukrainian not-for profit organization operating in close partnership with the global NGO HIAS, one of the world’s oldest refugee aid organizations. Like HIAS, R2P is dedicated to protecting refugees who find themselves in Ukraine due to dire circumstances. Additionally, R2P ensures the protection and human rights of other vulnerable migrants - the internally displaced, the stateless and those at risk of statelessness and the undocumented. 

Rights Georgia (formerly known as “Article 42 of the Constitution”) is a non-profit entity founded in September 1997 uniting professionals to promote human rights and freedom. Rights Georgia takes a multifaceted approach: promoting human rights awareness and supporting the development of national legislation to international human rights standards by monitoring state activities. 
The mission of the organization is to assist the promotion of rights guaranteed in different international agreements and support their implementation; to support the establishment of the rule of law; to develop the system of justice; to support the work of human rights defenders; to work on public awareness about human rights and tolerance, and to support the enhancement of professional legal education.
Rights Georgia is a sole legal partner of the UNHCR in Georgia and the only organization in Georgia, which is focused on protecting and empowering asylum seekers, refugees, humanitarian status holders, and statelessness persons. Rights Georgia provides legal assistance and legal consultation to the persons of concern on asylum-related cases, as well as on access to rights and expulsion cases.  

Roma Active Albania (RAA) was established in April 2006 to contribute to the empowerment and mobilisation of Roma, in order to bring them together in a Roma grassroots movement that can change the position of Roma and fight against exclusionary mechanisms. It lobbies and advocates on Roma issues at local, national and international levels. RAA is specialised in addressing issues, conducting analysis and developing new methods and strategies to tackle the exclusion of Roma people in Albania and Europe. RAA also supports the empowerment of women and youth. We were granted the European Commission 'Award on Roma Inclusion in Western Balkans and Turkey 2014' to honor the contribution and work of our organisation in supporting the social inclusion of Roma. 

Roma Active Albania is an active and founding member of the ERGO network, and was a founding member of the TernYpe International Young Roma Network, supporting the efforts of Roma youth organisations.