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Roshni Shanker is the founder of Margins to Access Project (MAP) (2013)[1], an Indian non-profit working on human rights and women & children from New Delhi.
Margins to Access Project (MAP)
Margins to Access Project, formerly the Migration and Asylum Project, is a Delhi-based legal aid centre working at the intersection of migration, gender and justice. It is the first organisation in South Asia with a formal agreement to represent asylum claims before UNHCR, and also runs a labour-rights desk for migrant workers and support for survivors of gender-based violence.
Margins to Access Project (MAP) reports the following, on its own site:
- 90% success rate in cases represented, recognised by the UN HQ as a best-practice model replicated in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia
- Programmes expanded across 3 states, reaching 30 districts, training over 1,700 paralegal volunteers and empaneled lawyers
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- New Delhi
- Founded
- 2013
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “MAP was founded in 2013 by Roshni Shanker, who was then working as a lawyer with UNHCR's field offices, assessing asylum claims from conflict-affected countries.” — Margins to Access Project (MAP). Source
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