Members will remember voting to support the inaugural conference in Nairobi on ‘Strategic Legal Mechanisms for Delivering Social and Economic Justice in Africa’ last October. The conference ran for 3 days at the University of Nairobi as a collaboration between Oxfam International and the University of Nairobi and was a… Read more
Launch of Refugee Legal Confidence Programme in Surrey by Lady Hale at University of Surrey, February 2020 LAP’s Joss Saunders, Ade Henderson and Louise Curd join Lady Hale, together with Liz Williams, Prof Alex Sarch and Prof Graham Miller of Surrey’s School of Law We are delighted to announce the… Read more
Further funding in Lesvos In 2018 members voted to provide a grant of £15,000 to Oxfam in Greece to support Oxfam’s continuing legal aid programme for asylum seekers on the Greek islands. This followed on from LAP’s earlier grant in 2017 of €10,000 which funded 1 GCR lawyer for 5… Read more
The start of a new year in Lesvos has seen the arrival of a paradoxical new challenge: while a bottleneck of asylum seekers applying for settlement has been the problem to date – many wait up to two years for an interview – speed is now the enemy. On 1st January… Read more
Is the right to asylum related to the language spoken by the asylum seeker? Could a victim of torture be deprived of his right to apply for international protection due to lack of interpretation? Not according to international law, but in Lesvos, from 15 to 20 November 2019, 28 asylum… Read more
Report on Lawyers Against Poverty and guest speakers event, November 2019 On 14 November Lawyers Against Poverty hosted an evening of talks on the topic: How lawyers can use their legal skills in order to promote rule of law and access to justice. This discussion took place in the context… Read more
As part of the Flourishing Diversity Series, Lawyers Against Poverty hosted a Listening Session regarding indigenous land rights at Simmons & Simmons on 11 September 2019. The Flourishing Diversity Series The Flourishing Diversity Series provided a unique opportunity to listen, learn, and communicate with indigenous leaders from across the world…. Read more
Lawyers Against Poverty is currently in the midst of its second series of refugee confidence sessions in collaboration with Refugee Resource in Oxford. These sessions are intended to offer the refugee community information on their rights in the UK. We want to empower and support refugees in their efforts to… Read more
According to the World Health Organisation, it is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), with three million at risk every year. FGM is defined as the removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons (whether complete or incomplete)… Read more
Lawyers Against Poverty is delighted that Oxfam in Greece, European Lawyers in Lesvos and the Greek Council for Refugees yesterday announced the release of a pamphlet on seeking asylum in Lesvos (entitled Seeking Asylum: Basic Legal Information for Applicants of International Protection). It is available in ten different languages (Amharic,… Read more
