About
Our Partners 		's partners are non-profit organizations that directly represent asylum seekers in countries of refuge around the world. This site supports their work by providing online assistance for volunteer asylum advocates. In turn, these organizations provide us with the information that makes up the content for their respective countries of refuge. Together, we hope to provide the much-needed legal assistance to the half million people that apply for asylum each year around the world.
  The following page provides a more in-depth look at these partnering organizations.
   
  Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre
 

The Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre is a non-profit community legal centre based in Melbourne specialising in the Law of Migration and Asylum in Australia. It offers advice, assistance and advocacy on behalf of applicants seeking residence in Australia and to their sponsors. Its particular focus are the disadvantaged who could not otherwise afford legal help in their claims. All RILC's services are free and it assists about 2000 people per year.

RILC was founded in 1989 as a joint venture between community and ethnic groups, the legal profession and churches to redress the lack of expert advice to those in need. It has now expanded to an extensive legal education role for the legal and migration agent professions.
   
  FCJ Hamilton House Refugee Project
  The origins of FCJ Hamilton House Refugee Project date back to 1991. Since its beginning as a shelter, the project has welcomed and supported 80 women and their children. These families have come from all around the globe. We now operate two different houses that can offer refuge to seven women with their children. In addition, we coordinate various programs for refugees and immigrants. Today, the Hamilton House's mandate is to meet the diverse needs of uprooted people in communities across Ontario, Canada, as well as in their countries of origin. Specifically, Hamilton House focuses on the problems of poverty, lack of resources, isolation, and discrimination that refugees face here in Ontario and in Toronto specifically. It accomplishes these goals through community-based programs that promote self-help, personal growth, community economic development and greater justice in social, economic and political structures.
   
  TIA/CC Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center
"...to save one life is to save the world."

The Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center (MIHRC) is part of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (formerly Travelers & Immigrants Aid), which has helped immigrants and refugees find safety and opportunity in the United States since its inception in 1888. Founded in 1985, MIHRC's pro bono program provides legal representation to low-income refugees seeking political asylum in the United States. The program is now one of the leading asylum defense programs in the country, handling deportation cases and administrative asylum cases every year.

MIHRC's pro bono program relies almost entirely on volunteer attorneys, the great majority of whom have no previous experience in immigration or asylum law. MIHRC assists its volunteers by providing training, materials, support services and extensive consultation as needed. Largely as a result of the efforts of its volunteers, MIHRC has helped thousands of immigrants and refugees from more than 45 nations begin new lives in the United States and has become a national model for legal clinics providing immigrant and refugee legal services.