Our members

Asylum Aid has been representing refugees through the UK asylum process for thirty years as well as advocating on behalf of asylum seekers for a better, fairer process in the UK. We are now part of the Helen Bamber group, a charity that specialises in providing care and support for torture survivors.

Asylum Aid has had a specialist focus on Statelessness for the past fifteen years and campaigned alongside ENS for the UK Statelessness process to be created. We have continued to represent statelessness applicants through this process and hope to campaign for legal aid funding in the future.

ASYLUM PROTECTION CENTER (APC) was founded in 2007 and from the very beginning of the asylum system in Serbia (2008) it has been providing legal, psychosocial and interaction/integration aid to exiles, asylum seekers and persons who have been granted asylum or other protection in the Republic of Serbia (also focusing on children and youth, providing legal, psychosocial, interaction/integration aid to minors, unaccompanied minors and youth). APC is recognised by the Strategy of the Government of the Republic of Serbia on the Management of Migration as an organization that provides legal and other assistance to asylum seekers in the system in Serbia (Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia no. 59/2009.). APC is a member of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), and it is a unique organization which in its daily field work, provides comprehensive support to asylum seekers ranging from free legal aid to psychological, social, interaction/integration assistance and works, all through APC teams of lawyers, psychologists, social workers, educators, volunteers, interns and translators – in all places where asylum seekers are situated throughout Serbia. Activities of the APC as grass root organization are reflected through our strong presence and engagement at local levels in local communities, in order to establish a dialogue and interaction between asylum seekers/refugees/exiles and local citizens; primarily through the organization of public local events, exhibitions, fairs, asylum corners, interaction/integration, creative and other workshops, round tables, work of APC local networks of volunteers and APC interns, cultural mediators support and other events and activities in local communities, as well as through numerous collaborations with local governments, organizations, institutions, schools, local cultural and youth centers. APC political scientists and researchers actively work in the field of research and advocacy, using extensive APC experience and field data, in order to get to the root of issues and problems of the migration, asylum system and refugees, strengthening and spreading information to the wider general and local public and experts, advocating and fighting to reduce prejudice and xenophobia in local and general public thus building more tolerant and inclusive society in Serbia.

Aurelia has a Doctorate in law from the Universidad of León (awarded in 1986). She is a Senior lecturer, accredited as a Professor of Private International Law Area, attached to the Department of Private Law and Business Law of the University of León. She teaches at the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Labour Sciences, and Faculty of Sports Sciences.

Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) is a leading NGO that focuses on investigating human rights abuses in Bahrain. We work in three stages: exposing, supporting victims, and seeking accountability. We have developed a unique yet incredibly effective strategy of lobbying, peaceful protests, the media and creative use of the legal process. As a result, a week barely passes without the human rights abuses of the small state of Bahrain appearing in the news. Through our campaigning, we have drawn attention to the Bahraini government’s use of the revocation of citizenship as a tool to silence dissent. Our Director of Advocacy, Sayed Alwadaei, is a prominent Bahraini human rights defender who was rendered stateless in 2015 as a reprisal for his human rights work. With his exceptional experience and knowledge of the abuses in Bahrain, we are working on a research and advocacy project relating to the activities of Bahraini stateless people in Europe after they have had their citizenship revoked.

BID is an independent, national charity that exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. We provide legal advice, information and representation on bail to people held in immigration detention and we aim to influence policy to ensure that people are only detained as a last resort and that such safeguards as exist against arbitrary detention are adhered to. We run a telephone helpline, disseminate a self-help book (How to Get out of Detention, available in 5 languages) and run bail workshops in detention centres. We also prepare and present in court a limited number of bail applications for the most vulnerable of people (e.g.  survivors of torture and parents separated from their children) and people who cannot be removed from the UK. We have a strategic approach to litigation and refer cases of unlawful detention for High Court action.

Bairska Svetina is a non-governmental organization that contributes to strengthening the capacity of Roma communities, improving their socio-economic status, building of capacities among young Roma activists and improving the level of education.

Namely, our organizational mission is based aiming toward enjoyment of basic human rights and direct inclusion and integration the Roma community in the processes. Also, the point for inclusion is based on the strategically access of Bairska Svetlina which main aim is to develop a method of clear organizational orientation by taking the activities by priority areas and establishing partnerships in order to improve the situation of the Roma community.

Center for Development of Roma community "Bairska Svetlina" counts more than 10 active volunteers who together create a model of development, dissemination and contribution.

Barbara von Rütte is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Prior to this she has completed her PhD at the University of Bern within the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR - on the move. Her doctoral and postdoctoral research focuses on the regulation of nationality in international law, in particular the right to nationality. Her broader research interests include questions relating to citizenship law and theory as well as statelessness, Swiss nationality law, legal identity, and the administrative detention of migrants both from a constitutional law as well as a human rights perspective. Since 2020 she is a member of the Swiss Federal Commission on Migration and serves as a book review editor for the Statelessness and Citizenship review. Until 2019 she also served as a consultant for the Council of Europe on the committee of experts on administrative detention of migrants (CJ-DAM).

Before starting a Ph.D. in Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh, I took an M.A. in International Studies at Seoul National University, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Business Studies at the University of Mannheim. In 2012, I was an exchange student at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. Since 2019, I've been a co-chair of the “Normative Theory of Immigration Working Group” which is an international collective of scholars working at the intersections of migration studies, policy studies, and political theory. Moreover,

Bhutanese Community in The Netherlands (BCN) is an association of all the former Bhutanese Citizens who came to the Netherlands as refugees and are now living in the Netherlands. It is a non political, non profit, non religious and purely an association that runs through voluntary contributions from its members and sympathisers.

BCN was primarily formed in September 2009 for the following major purposes:- 
1.    To unite all the former Bhutanese Citizens who are living in The Netherlands after being evicted from Bhutan.
2.    To assist them for getting Dutch Citizenship/eradicating statelessness in the community and for the effective integration in the Dutch Society with proper knowledge of Dutch Language and their ways of living.
3.    To work commonly for the preservation and promotion of our mother tongue, positive parts of our culture and traditions besides giving more focus to Dutch Language and integration.
4.    To show support and solidarity to both our community members and other communities during needs and emergencies.
5.    To provide platform for our community members to show their skills and talents by organizing periodic cultural programs, seminars, workshops, leadership trainings and other related productive gatherings.
6.    To act as a network with our communities living in other parts of the world and make effort to work together towards preserving our common history, documents and other precious articles.
7.    To make effort to bring awareness about our existance with our local communities and government by inviting them in our cultural and other events time to time.
8.    To make possible efforts for the reconnection with families and friends living back in Bhutan

The Bhutanese Welfare Association (BWA) is a non-profit organisation established on 27th July 2011. It was established by a group of Bhutanese people within the UK to bring all Bhutanese together to nurture, facilitate, empower and promote Bhutan’s culture, and to aid the population in the development of the skills that are essential for establishing a new life in the United Kingdom. The mission of BWA is to ensure the development of support services that will enable the Bhutanese people to improve their standard of living and increase their self-worth, independence, and autonomy.
BWA’s methods for facilitating the growth of Bhutanese culture, social integration and personal development of individuals includes various activities, programs and guidance. It is an invaluable resource for all Bhutanese to discover their strength and potential to thrive at the start of a new life in a new country, by successfully adjusting to English culture while also retaining their own traditions.