Rights in Exile: the Digital Hub Providing Access to Justice for Refugees
AsyLex is a Swiss NGO providing free legal aid and representation to asylum seekers by making use of digital tools. Recently, we have taken over the Rights in Exile Platform, an online hub centralizing legal information for asylum seekers and legal advisories on over 150 countries worldwide. With our presentation, we aim to give an in-depth overview on the platform and discuss how the digital age provides new opportunities to tackle social challenges, in our case concretely overcoming hurdles to accessing justice for displaced people.
While the modern global refugee community faces unprecedented challenges, it has one key advantage over previous generations: it is overwhelmingly tech-savvy and smartphone enabled. Thus, there is great potential in fostering access to justice for displaced peoples by making legal information easily available through digital tools. The Rights in Exile Platform, hosted by AsyLex, follows this vision by centralizing legal information on over 150 countries. In practice, this allows displaced people all over the world to effortlessly access urgently needed information on their rights and find organizations providing protection near them. Further, the platform provides information for legal advisories, and thus contributes to a more cohesive international legal community that can exchange best practices and specialist knowledge on legal frameworks and relevant trends in the field of asylum globally.