International Refugee Assistance Project

Create a system of legal representation for refugees.

Other | United States of America | Community Development |

https://refugeerights.org/

Overview

The International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons. Mobilizing direct legal aid and systemic policy advocacy IRAP serves the world s most persecuted individuals and empowers the next generation of human rights leaders. IRAP is the first organization to provide comprehensive legal representation to refugees throughout the registration protection and resettlement processes working in some of the world s regions most traumatized by war hostility and political upheaval. Since its establishment IRAP has provided legal assistance to more than 10300 refugees and has resettled more than 3200 individuals from conflict zones to safe new countries. IRAP provides pro bono legal representation legal advice and expert referrals to refugees all over the world. IRAP s goal is to ensure that available services and legal protections go to those who are most in need. Utilizing grassroots networks amongst particularly difficult to access populations IRAP works to identify and empower many of the world s most at risk refugees including LGBTI individuals religious minorities subject to targeted violence survivors of sexual and gender based violence children with medical emergencies for which local treatment is not available and interpreters being hunted down by the Islamic State militias and the Taliban in retaliation for their work with the United States and NATO.