Our members

The Roma Lawyers Association is an independent not-profit association formed by a group of Roma law students and the first Roma female attorney at law, who is one of the only two Roma attorneys in Macedonia. The association was founded in August 2015 as a response to the need of Roma lawyers to get into the legal profession and be able to represent the interest of Roma community, influence the government, be a public opinion shaper, initiate policy and legislative analysis and changes, and advocate. The final aim is to ensure the full enjoyment of rights by the Roma community as granted by the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Macedonia.

Roma Versitas Kosovo is the only organization that mainly works with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian students throughout Kosovo, on daily basis. The work of this project has been going on for more than five years, and the leading staff gained more than 5 years of direct experience in support of 500 Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian students in three resource centers of Kosovo, Prishtina, Prizren and Peja. The main aim was, and it will continue to be to raise the performance and capacity in academic and professional development of these three communities. We strongly believe in most students as great contributors of Kosovo and their own communities’ future. 

As a result of successful implementation, the project that started five years ago, turned into an organization that aims to act as a portfolio with programs that will work more towards successes of all the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian students in Kosovo. Roma Versitas Kosovo as organization has been established in May 2017.

Roua is a PhD candidate at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)/ Ulster University. Her research is on transformative gender justice, examining forced displacement-associated socioeconomic harms experienced since the start of conflict in Syria in 2011. She focuses on a particular, yet significant, segment of the population: the displaced families affected by the gender discriminatory nationality law(s) (GDNL) and with children at risk of statelessness.

Our association (Asociación Juvenil Colectivo Saharaui LEFRIG) works to eradicate statelessness in general, and in particular we work with Sahrawis who arrive in Spain from the Sahrawi Refugee Camps in Tindouf (Algeria), to request Statelessness Status. It is a situation that we know very well because many of the members of the association have the recognition of the State of State by the Spanish State.

Our association was born to disseminate the situation of the Sahrawi people, but currently most of the work we do is accompanying and advising applicants for the Stateless Status.

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR) is an NGO that endeavours to preserve universal principles of dignity and respect by shielding democracy and human rights.

In the pursuit of this vision, SALAM DHR aims to influence British, European and UN representatives to improve the situation in the Middle East, and foster awareness of human rights and democracy.

To accomplish these goals, SALAM DHR conducts monitoring and analysis, produces reports, develops recommendations on policy and legislation, organises advocacy campaigns, conducts trainings, and builds effective coalitions. SALAM DHR is actively involved in international cooperation for human rights and democracy, including the production of alternative reports on key human rights topics, coordinating coalitions, lobbying for reform of flawed institutions, and articulating NGO positions at the UN Human Rights Council, the European Parliament, and various domestic bodies.

Sangita Bajulaiye is the advocacy and outreach officer at the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI). She is responsible for coordinating the human rights advocacy work, involved in movement building, and conducts research on (children’s) right to a nationality in unrecognised states. She represented ISI on the governance board of the Statelessness Network Asia Pacific (SNAP). Sangita is also a PhD candidate at Tilburg University (Tilburg Law School). Her PhD research focuses on (arbitrary) deprivation of nationality and the implications this has for the citizen-state relation. She holds an LLM in International and European Law from the same university. Sangita is also one of the "Faces of Science" appointed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Scottish Detainee Visitors is a small charity, based in Glasgow, that supports people affected by detention in Scotland and influences policy on detention.  They provide a visiting service to people detained by the immigration service in Dungavel detention centre; run a Life After Detention project providing peer support, casework and a space for creative activity for people who have experienced detention, and they conduct policy and awareness-raising work. They are the only organisation in Scotland with a specific focus on detention. 

Scottish Refugee Council is Scotland's national refugee charity that provides advice and information to people seeking international protection and refugees living in Scotland. They campaign for a fair and humane protection system in the UK and support and promote diverse and welcoming communities in Scotland.

Sdružení pro integraci a migraci (the Association for Integration and Migration (AIM)) is a non-profit, non-government organization based in Prague, the Czech Republic. For the past 20 years it has provided legal and social counselling to third country nationals and stateless persons living in the Czech Republic. AIM also attempts to use its legal counselling experience and knowledge in support of advocacy and legislative activities within the Czech Republic and the wider EU.

The SJM is a network of Jesuit organizations focused on providing support, service and protection for migrants and migrant organizations. To this end it implements intervention projects (related to reception of migrants, training, associative accompaniment, human rights advocacy, etc.) and carries out public awareness, advocacy campaigns and research initiatives. The JMS is made up of different organizations committed to the objective of promoting an inclusive, cohesive and intercultural society: the University Institute of Migration Studies (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid),the Migra Studium Foundation (Barcelona), the  CeiMigra  Foundation (Valencia), the San Juan del Castillo Foundation  (Madrid), the  Ignacio Ellacuría social Foundation (Bilbao) and the Claver Volunteer Association (Sevilla).  It works in coordination with the JMS Latin America-Caribbean and joins efforts with the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe to take part in Northern Africa where they work with migrant populations.