Our members

Stefanie Grant’s previous roles include Director of Research, Amnesty International; Director of Amnesty’s Washington DC office; partner [immigration  and refugee law] Bindmans solicitors; Director, research branch of UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sussex; Senior Advisor on statelessness, and on Rohingya research, to Equal Rights Trust. She is currently a consultant to Harrison Grant, solicitors.

Stephanie Huber is a Country of Origin Information (COI) specialist with almost 15 years experience conducting COI research for individual asylum and human rights claims for use in representations to national and international refugee decision making bodies and to the UK Immigration and Asylum Chambers, as well as providing COI research for a number of UK Country Guidance (CG) cases and for UNHCR. She also has extensive experience of undertaking COI reviews for various national and international bodies. Since 2010 she is the co-Founder and Director of Asylum Research Centre (ARC) and between 2016-2022 was the co-Founder and co-Director of its charitable arm, ARC Foundation, where she provides research, advocacy and training on human rights and refugee issues. Prior to founding ARC she worked in a variety of roles for the Immigration Advisory Service, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

The Swedish Organization Against Statelessness is an NGO that raises awareness on issues relating to statelessness. The organization mainly works with advocacy and lobbying. The goal of the organization is to amplify the voices of stateless persons, which is done through a reference group, in order to change policy and laws to end statelessness and ensure the protection of stateless persons’ rights.

Swedish Refugee Law Center The Swedish Refugee Law Center is an asylum center that has worked for legally certain asylum procedures since 1991 and that the Swedish asylum process is in line with international human rights conventions that Sweden. We are a religiously and politically independent non-profit association with around fifteen lawyers who have previously worked at the Migration Agency, the migration courts and law firms specialised in migration law and human rights. We provide legal advice and work as legal representatives and public counsels in individual cases, both nationally and internationally. We also analyse and comment on new law proposals.

Tamás Molnar (1980): is head of unit, Unit for Migration, Asylum and Border Management, Department of EU Cooperation, Ministry of Interior (Hungary) and assistant professor in the Corvinus University of Budapest. In his role for the Ministry of Interior he drafted the national statelessness determination procedure and initiated Hungary’s accession to the statelessness related conventions. He was a member of the European Committee on Migration (CDMG) of the Council of Europe (2008-2011) and CDMG Bureau member for 2010-2011; now focal point of the new Intergovernmental Platform on Migration Issues. He has almost thirty publications in three languages in the fields of public international law and EU law, including issues of nationality and statelessness. His main oeuvres: International Law (co-author, eds.: Gábor Kardos – Tamás Lattmann, Budapest, ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2010); The Handbook on Hungarian Migration Law (co-author with two chapters, one on statelessness; ed. Zoltán Lékó, Budapest, CompLex, 2009) and the Encyclopaedia of International Relations 1945-2005 (co-author with 120 entries on pubic international law; ed. Jenő Horváth, Budapest, Osiris, 2005). He is member of the International Law Association (ILA) – Hungarian Branch, the European Society of International Law (ESIL-SEDI) as well as the Fédération internationale de droit européen (FIDE). He is member of the editorial board of Acta Humana, the leading Hungarian legal periodical in the field of human rights. 

TERRE DES HOMMES LAUSANNE FOUNDATION IN KOSOVO (TDHK), was established in 2010 by the Swiss International NGO Terre des hommes (Tdh) active in Kosovo since 1999.  Terre des hommes Mission in Kosovo is a non-profit organization that has been functioning for more than 15 years in the field of child rights and child protection, leading the establishment and strengthening of a national child protection system in Kosovo. Terre des hommes's expertise spans from direct psycho-social interventions with vulnerable children and their family members and community members, to strengthen local, regional and governmental institutions, and key actors through capacity building and on-job in order to develop and implement child-sensitive structures, policies, standards and procedures. Terre des hommes Kosovo has three main intervention programs:

1) Child Protection;

2) Children and Youth affected by Migration and Anti-Trafficking and

4) Juvenile Justice. 

The Swedish Network of Refugee Support Groups, FARR, is a politically and religiously independent umbrella organization that assists refugee groups, asylum committees and individuals. We are well established in Sweden since 1988. FARR sees providing information about the asylum system at all stages of the procedure to asylum-seekers. Therefore, we have produced a guide called “Good Advice to Asylum Seekers” published in six languages and available on our websitewww.farr.se. FARR is a grassroots’ organization where all the work is done on a voluntary basis. The 55 local groups  cooperate with asylum lawyers and have members that are experienced in asylum law and rules. Our services are free. FARR operates a volunteer help-line to deal with questions from asylum-seekers and those assisting them. Journalists from the media also contact us on a regular basis. People seeking information or advice can also send e-mail requests toinfo@farr.se  that are answered by law-students under the supervision of an experienced board member.

Thomas McGee is a PhD researcher at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness. There, he is working on statelessness in the Syrian context. Since 2011, Thomas has served as an expert on cases of stateless Kurds from Syria within European asylum processes. Speaking Arabic and Kurdish, he has also worked on statelessness more widely in the Middle Eastern and diaspora contexts, publishing on the issue in a number of academic and policy publications. With ENS, Thomas has contributed to the Stateless Journeys project about the experiences of stateless asylum seekers and refugees in Europe, and continues to engage in the issue. As well as being an Individual Member of ENS, Thomas is co-coordinator of the recently established MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati).

The Tirana Legal Aid Society (TLAS) is one of the foremost NGOs in Albania dealing with the issue of statelessness. TLAS offers free legal aid services for thousands of stateless children and adults and has continued to work for the improvement of the birth registration system in partnership with the Albanian Government. The TLAS mission is the fulfillment of the legal and social needs of the poor, education and raising of the awareness of Albanian society on the rule of law and human rights; initiatives on the improvement of the legal system, development of the community and strengthening of democracy in Albania.

Trixiewiz e.V. is a migrant and feminist organisation committed to creating sustainable forms of solidarity in a society shaped by migration. We see ourselves as a space for collaborative networking where we can develop new and effective forms of transnational political participation. To do so, we organise emancipatory projects in which migrants (particularly women*) are treated not simply as audience members, but, above all, as experts in their own right. Through political, cultural, and educational programmes for people who have experienced migration and/or flight, we develop participatory strategies to combat racism and discrimination and initiate processes of self-empowerment.