Liga za ľudské práva/The Human Rights League
The Human Rights League is a non-profit organization, since 2005 providing comprehensive and free legal counselling to asylum seekers, recognised refugees and persons with other forms of protection, thus contributing to improving the overall quality of the asylum procedure in Slovakia.
The Human Rights League closely co-operates with the Law Clinic at the University of Trnava and provides personnel capacities for teaching law students in the framework of the Clinic of Asylum Law. At the same time, the Human Rights League closely co-operates with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Slovak Republic.
In addition to asylum issues, the organization has also been implementing legal projects in the field of migrant integration and unaccompanied minors. Within these projects, the Human Rights League also co-operates with the Migration Information Centre of the IOM.
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Nadácia Milana Šimečku/Milan Šimečka Foundation
As part of its diverse portfolio of activities, the Foundation is also working in the field of migration. Migration is a subsection of its programme Education on Human Rights is a Human Right in which the Foundation focuses on intercultural education and inter-ethnic relations.
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Slovenská humanitná rada/The Slovak Humanitarian Council
The Slovak Humanitarian Council is a national volunteer centre coordinating 175 humanitarian and charity organisations, civic associations and foundations working in a broadly defined area of social affairs throughout Slovakia. It provides its members with direct financial assistance for administration and humanitarian projects. Since 1999, the Council has been the implementation partner of the UNHCR in a project of material assistance and social counselling for asylum seekers in refugee centres. The organisation has implemented several projects in the field of asylum, such as monitoring and crisis assistance before the entry into the asylum procedure, facilitating integration of recognised refugees, social assistance to unaccompanied minor migrants, and general social and legal counselling.
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Spoločnosť ľudí dobrej vole/The Goodwill Society
The Goodwill Society has been working with asylum seekers and recognised refugees since the 1990s. It has its seat in the city of Košice, but operates throughout the country. It has continuously provided social and psychological counselling, legal representation of refugees in administrative procedures, and assistance to individuals and families with accommodation and employment. The organisation also provides settlement grants and grants for accommodation as well as organising retraining courses, social events, etc.
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