Our members

The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) is an independent human rights organisation. We advocate for the rights of migrants and their families and act as a catalyst for public debate as well as legislative and policy change. The ICI is an Independent Law Centre, which means we can provide legal representation to migrants and their families. We undertake strategic litigation in order to try to effect change and in that context also represent stateless persons in Ireland. We are a non-governmental organisation with charitable status.

The Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (ILPA) is a registered charity and a professional membership association. The majority of members are barristers, solicitors and advocates practising in all areas of immigration, asylum and nationality law. Academics, nongovernmental organisations and individuals with an interest in the law are also members, Founded in 1984, ILPA exists to promote and improve advice and representation in immigration, asylum and nationality law through an extensive programme of training and disseminating information and by providing evidence-based research and opinion. ILPA is represented on advisory and consultative groups convened by Government departments, public bodies and non-governmental organizations. ILPA's official journal is the peer review Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, ILPA publications include Statelessness and Applications for Leave to Remain: Best practice guide, with the University of Liverpool Law clinic (November 2016).

Information Legal Centre (ILC) is a non-governmental organisation founded in 2002. It continued the work of the Legal Centre of International Rescue Committee, American humanitarian organisation, which started its work in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, in 1998. Our purpose is to promote and protect human rights and civil liberties, to strengthen society of tolerance and to provide direct services to the most vulnerable members of our society. In order to accomplish our aims, ILC provides professional services, including free legal aid and protection against discrimination, to the marginalised groups with special emphasis on members of Roma national minority, stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness, elderly persons, women, disabled persons and victims and witnesses of criminal offences.

The Innovations and Reform Centre (IRC) is a non-entrepreneurial legal entity, established in 2010. The mission of the center is to support the implementation of innovative approaches and reforms and act as a strong civil society advocate of democratic processes and the rule of law. It achieves this by supporting current reforms in the field of citizenship and migration as well as working to reduce the number of stateless persons and to prevent statelessness. The center also aims to improve the legal environment, to raise the level of qualification of state officials, and to improve the process of public administration on the central and local level. IRC provides assistance to the population for enhanced access to social services and protection. It actively cooperates with relevant governmental, non-governmental and international organizations. 

The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to leading an integrated, inter-disciplinary response to the injustice of statelessness and exclusion. We believe in the value of research, education, partnership and advocacy as means to promote the inclusion of the stateless and the disenfranchised. We aim to develop and share our skills and expertise with partners in civil society, academia, the UN and governments, and to serve as a catalyst for change. The Institute is registered as a Foundation under Dutch Law, and has an affiliation with Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

International Foundation for Health and Environment Protection "Region Karpat" (the abbreviation in Hungarian is NEEKA) is the international charitable organization, created in 1996 and registered in 1998 as a legal entity in Zakarpattya region, Ukraine. Since that time NEEKA contributed to the development of health protection, medical assistance to the population, social protection for persons with vulnerabilities, and as one of the key direction -free legal aid and partially social assistance to such vulnerable groups as asylum seekers, refugees, stateless persons and Roma people. Our NGO has a well-established cooperation and relationship with government bodies at the local and central levels, as well as with other civil society institutions involved into this scope.

Ivana Canjuga Bedic is an Attorney at law and since March 2006 she has been enrolled in the Directory of Lawyers at the Croatian Bar Association and became a sole practicioner, with wide experience in civil law. From 2008 until present she provides free legal aid in the second instance for asylum seekers in Croatia. 

Jaipreet Kaur is a qualified lawyer specialising in international law, particularly statelessness, refugee law and international human rights law. She is committed to working towards the eradication of statelessness and the protection of stateless persons. Jaipreet has an expertise in the permissibility of loss and deprivation of nationality under international law, and has worked with UNHCR to eradicate statelessness in Europe and globally.
Jaipreet has also worked with Statelessness Network Asia Pacific to conduct research for strategic litigation to provide stateless foundlings in Malaysia with citizenship, and previously worked on providing protection for stateless refugees in Malaysia at UNHCR and civil society organisations.

James C. Hathaway, the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan since 1998, is a leading authority on international refugee law whose work is regularly cited by the most senior courts of the common law world. He is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Amsterdam and Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. From 2008 until 2010 Hathaway was on leave from the University of Michigan to serve as the Dean of Law and William Hearn Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, where he established Australia’s first all-graduate legal education program. He previously held positions as Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada (1984-1998), Counsel on Special Legal Assistance for the Disadvantaged to the Government of Canada (1983-1984), and Professeur adjoint de droit at the Université de Moncton, Canada (1980-1983). He has been appointed a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo, and at the Universities of California, Macerata, Tokyo, and Toronto. Hathaway’s publications include more than seventy journal articles, a leading treatise on the refugee definition (The Law of Refugee Status, 1991, republished in both Japanese and Russian), an interdisciplinary study of models for refugee law reform (Reconceiving International Refugee Law, 1997) and, most recently, The Rights of Refugees under International Law (2005) – the first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees set by the UN Refugee Convention. He is Counsel on International Protection to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants and Founding Patron and Honorary Director of Asylum Access, a non-profit organization committed to delivering innovative legal aid to refugees in the global South. Hathaway also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Refugee Studies and the Immigration and Nationality Law Reports and directs the Refugee Caselaw Site (www.refugeecaselaw.org), a website that collects, indexes, and publishes leading judgments on refugee law. Professor Hathaway regularly advises and provides training on refugee law to academic, non-governmental, and official audiences around the world.

Jared Ficklin is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, and a Director of the School's Law Clinic. The Liverpool Law Clinic combines free advice and representation for clients while teaching modules on human rights and international law, particularly asylum and statelessness, allowing students to study these issues while gaining genuine experience. He also remains a door tenant at Garden Court North Chambers in Manchester, where his practice focused on asylum and human rights cases. Jared also delivers guest lectures and presents at conferences on human rights, migration and access to justice issues. He contributed to two chapters of Macdonald's Immigration Law and Practice 9th Edition, and to a research paper on outreach strategies for the war crimes division of the High Court of Uganda. Prior to pupillage at Garden Court North, Jared worked for Robert Lizar Solicitors and the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit as a caseworker.