International Refugee Assistance Project
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 79.5 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced, including 26 million refugees and 42 million asylum seekers. In the past year, the withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, the shutdown of asylum routes across the U.S./Mexico border, and the absence of legal pathways available to people displaced by extreme weather have only exacerbated challenges refugees face in seeking refuge and highlighted the urgent need for systematic reform. Since 2008, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) has delivered legal assistance to almost 40,000 displaced people around the world and set groundbreaking legal precedents for refugee and immigrant protections in the United States. With Corporation support, IRAP will continue to expand its programs safeguarding refugee rights and resettlement. It will challenge new and existing threats to legal and procedural rights for refugees and asylum seekers and provide legal assistance to many of the world’s most vulnerable refugees.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 79.5 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced, including 26 million refugees and 42 million asylum seekers. Xenophobic rhetoric and policies in the United States and elsewhere have only exacerbated challenges refugees face in seeking refuge from violence and persecution, a reality compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2010, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) has delivered legal assistance to more than 30,000 displaced people around the world and set groundbreaking legal precedents for refugee and immigrant protections in the United States. With Corporation support, IRAP will continue to expand its programs safeguarding refugee rights and resettlement. It will challenge new and existing threats to legal and procedural rights for refugees and asylum seekers and provide legal assistance to many of the world’s most vulnerable refugees.
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Project Title
For core support of the International Refugee Assistance Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Fiscally sponsored by the Urban Justice Center, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) employs a volunteer network of more than 2,000 law students and pro bono attorneys to safeguard the rights and resettlement of refugees, and to challenge threats to the legal and procedural rights of refugees and asylum seekers. As the world continues to face its most serious global refugee crisis, with 65 million displaced persons around the globe, IRAP fills a critical legal services gap in the United States, where immigration has become a highly contentious political issue. With Corporation support, IRAP will continue to provide refugees with comprehensive legal representation and advocate for systemic changes to ensure that the rights of refugee populations are upheld everywhere.