- CIMADE
- Region: France, Europe
- Issues: Refugees, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Each year, the Cimade welcomes and accompanies
several tens of thousands of migrants and petitioners of refuge in its permanence.
The Cimade contributes to their insert by the organization of specific formations.
It accommodates equally close to 200 persons per year in its two centers
of welcome of Béziers and of Massy.
Facing a legislation always more complex and more restrictive, the Cimade brings its expertise and its counsel to the foreigners so that they can exercise their rights. Intervening in the centers of administrative retention, it is loaded by the authorities of a mission of accompaniment and of defense of the rights of the constrained foreigners to leave the territory. Because it is necessary to let the law evolve and the mentalities, it campaigns more generally for the defense of the basic rights of the foreigners and the respect of their dignity.
To their side to the Newspaper, the Cimade can indicate what they live and difficulties that they meet. Because to welcome the foreigner is equally to understand from which it comes, the Cimade supports partners in countries of the South around projects linked to the defense of the basic rights, to the assistance to the refugees or to the support to the renewed persons in their country. It gives henceforth priority to the reinforcement and to the work with the civil corporations of the South and North for the defense of the rights of the migrant ones.
- Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance
- Region: Egypt, Middle East
- Issues: Human Rights, Refugees, Transitional
- Mission Statement: AMERA-Egypt operates as a foreign branch of
AMERA-UK under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2000 there were no Egyptian
lawyers trained in refugee/human rights law. Today, through the training
that has been ongoing since 2000, AMERA's permanent staff are all Egyptian.
In addition, three times a year, AMERA trains ten volunteer lawyers and
psychologists/social workers from Egypt and the rest of the world. These
volunteers are self-funded and remain with AMERA for at least six months.
The work of AMERA-Egypt is overseen by an Advisory Committee, chaired by Dr. Harrell-Bond and appointed by the AMERA-UK Board. AMERA-Egypt meets its goals and objectives through teams, each headed by a legal officer or psychosocial worker. The volunteer legal advisors and psychosocial workers are assigned to work with a team and are also responsible for representing individual refugee status determination cases.