We have handed over the work of our projects to some fantastic organisations. Please find details below.
Rights in Exile is a technology-driven legal empowerment platform, working to strengthen opportunities for displaced people to secure protection and access their rights. By developing and centralizing resources for legal practitioners and for refugees, Rights in Exile aims to promote and strengthen the legal protection of refugees worldwide.
You can find the Rights in Exile platform at: www.rightsinexile.org
The management of the platform is now being run by AsyLex. For any queries regarding the new platform, you can contact Asylex at rightsinexile@asylex.org.
From 2022-2024, AMERA International had the wonderful opportunity to partner with SolidariTee to fund and support the development of the Therapeutic Legal Assistance Model (TLAM). This is a framework delivered as part of a facilitated training and professional development course based around three key pillars:
SolidariTee will now host and manage resources associated with the Model. SolidariTee will continue to collaborate in continued dissemination of resources and delivery of training and professional development opportunities.
Though resources developed specifically for the TLAM program are only available to those who are signed up to a training cohort, a resource index of collated, publicly available articles, research and toolkits produced by academic and third-sector organisations has also been prepared and can be freely accessed, to support anyone interested in learning more about therapeutic legal assistance and trauma-informed approaches, and to offer a toolbox of useful references for legal practitioners in their representation of refugees.
You can find out more about the model and access the Resource Index on SolidariTee’s website here.
The Deportation Monitoring Network was established with three main goals:
The network identified a need to develop a methodology for systematic monitoring of immigration removals/deportations and outcomes. In 2022 AMERA set up a pilot project in the UK, the UK Deportations and Removals Monitor (UK DRM). The UK DRM established methodologies for monitoring removals from the UK and their outcomes, and created a database for tracking removals.
We are delighted that Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) will be continuing the work of the UK Deportations and Removals Monitor, including tracking removals and deportations, and monitoring outcomes.
We want to thank everyone for contributing over the past 20 years to AMERA’s work in pursuit of access to justice for refugees. We will leave you with the words of our founder, Barbara Harrell-Bond:
“Until refugees have access to effective legal remedies, humanitarian assistance will continue to be inhumanely delivered… This approach is not about discretionary assistance when the mood for benevolence takes us. It is about defending, advocating and securing enjoyment of human rights.”