Our members

Female Fellows e.V is a non-profit organisation with the mission to empower, inform, include and integrate third-country national women alongside host country female fellows in social, economic and political aspects of their societies in Germany and in Europe. Our vision is to build a society where everyone, including women with migrant and refugee background in Germany and Europe, have a decent and comfortable life together with their female fellows.

Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid was founded in December 2018 to respond to the dire lack of legal representation and information available to refugees on the island of Lesvos, Greece who were escaping their war-torn homes. Fenix fights for the basics: legal assistance, empowerment through information, and the agency of refugees to navigate their own future. We seek to replace charity with empowerment. 
Our field team is based in Lesvos and is made up of lawyers, psychologists, translators, and protection officers. We provide information to refugees about their rights under international law, help present family reunification claims, assist with interview preparation, and facilitate the acquisition of documents and medical and psychological assessments. As part of our daily work in the field, we help refugees navigate the day-to-day frustrations that are part of their daily lives and the often-changing asylum process. 

Forum Réfugiés works to protect the needs and promote the rights of all asylum seekers, stateless persons and refugees. The four main activities of our association are: reception and legal accompaniment of asylum seekers, integration through work and accommodation of refugees, medical and psychological accompaniment, and legal counselling in administrative retention centres. Forum Réfugiés translates its practical work into policy and advocacy activities which aim at raising awareness about the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in France and Europe. Forum Réfugiés  has developed a strong experience and expertise with regards to legislative advocacy. It promotes protection-oriented legislative reforms and policy initiatives at the national and European levels.

FAR (Foundation for Access to Rights) is an NGO aiming to establish a solid ground for access to rights in practice in Bulgaria. FAR’s mission is to increase the institutional and public awareness, sensitivity and commitment to the need to address systemic problems in access to basic human rights in Bulgaria. It further aims to contribute to the development of a favourable legislative environment in line with European and International standards for the protection of human rights and the establishment of best practices on access to rights. Among other activities, FAR predominantly provides free legal assistance to refugees, immigrants and stateless persons. It carries out trainings about the rights of vulnerable groups of persons

Frances Meyler is a Law Lecturer and Co-Director of Liverpool Law Clinic at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, specialising in refugee, immigration and human rights law. She is also a part-time judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber).  She practised at the Bar (called 1999, Middle Temple) and spent several years working at a senior level at Refugee & Migrant Justice (also known as 'Refugee Legal Centre'). She ran 'not in accordance with the law' grounds in relation to unremovable Stateless cases, including a case that reached the Supreme Court: MS (Palestinian Territories) v SSHD [2010] UKSC 25. She also developed policy and training for the RLC in relation to the Early Legal Advice Pilot in Solihull. Frances is currently an examiner on the Law Society's Immigration and Asylum Law Accreditation Scheme.

Fundación Cepaim's main mission is the provision of comprehensive support to migrants, asylum seekers, stateless persons, as well as nationals, in order to promote social cohesion and fight poverty and social exclusion. Through cooperation with public institutions, private actors and stakeholders, its goal is to achieve an inclusive, diverse and multicultural society, and to enhance communications and relationships between individuals with different social and cultural backgrounds. It is inspired by the principles of equality and non discrimination, cultural diversity, social justice, solidarity, and social transformation. There are different fields where Fundación Cepaim implements its activities focusing on the enhancement of an inclusive society: reception and international protection, employment, youth and family support, community-based development, equality and non discrimination, international cooperation, housing, interculturality and rural development. Its advocacy work aims to promote research, training, and to raise awareness and achieve social advancements in the fields of migration, social and residential exclusion, social vulnerability and cooperation with developing countries.
Fundación Cepaim are part of the International Protection National Reception System which includes beneficiaries and applicants of stateless status in Spain, and it offers them accommodation and cover their basic needs while affording them free legal and psychological aid and interpretation, and the assistance of social workers in their pathway to integration in Spain.

FWC is a non-profit NGO implementing projects that aim to bring about positive social change in Cypriot society. FWC’s operations are pioneering a number of humanitarian, intercultural, and peace related projects which are implemented by its four Units on Humanitarian Affairs, Global Education, Peace Building and New Media. FWC is the implementing partner of UNHCR in Cyprus through the Humanitarian Affairs Unit (HAU). 

GLOBALCIT is an observatory within the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. It involves three partner institutions and its goal is to provide academics, governments, international organisations and NGOs with citizenship-related information for research and evidence-based evaluation of public policies. The GLOBALCIT website provides country reports on citizenship laws and policies worldwide, comparative citizenship analyses, working papers, case law notes, and policy briefs. In addition, GLOBALCIT has developed eight user-friendly databases on citizenship matters and three databases on electoral right. The databases on modes of acquisition and modes of loss of citizenship, for example, attempt to make legal rules for acquiring or losing citizenship comparable across countries. 

The Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) is an NGO founded in 1989 to support refugees, stateless persons and asylum seekers in Greece. Through various psychosocial and legal services, it helps them to find protection and integrate in Greece. It is the only non-governmental, non-profit organisation that deals exclusively with people seeking asylum in Greece. Moreover, it is registered in the records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity on account of its charitable work and expertise. It is a member of the European Council for Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and an implemented partner of UNHCR. 

The Greek Forum of Refugees is a multinational grassroots network of refugee communities, individuals and professionals working to support asylum seekers, refugees and stateless persons. Involving 9 refugee communities, GFR intends to put the expertise of refugees at the forefront of the debates and solutions on their inclusion process. Its mission revolves around:

•Advocating for a holistic approach to integration
•Defending the rights and protecting the freedoms of refugees and asylum seekers
•Encouraging self-organisation and participation of refugees and their communities
•Informing refugees and asylum seekers of their rights and obligations
•Networking at different levels