Awn Project
The Awn Project aims to address the legal challenges faced by Yemeni migrants and refugees in the United States by raising their legal awareness, establishing an effective communication mechanism to receive and address their issues, providing the necessary legal support, and documenting cases to improve the legal environment.
Motivations for Launching the Project:
Legal challenges have been a significant obstacle to the integration of Yemeni migrants and refugees into American society and achieving social harmony. Recently, there has been a sharp increase in these legal challenges due to cultural differences and limited legal awareness among newly arrived Yemeni migrants and refugees in the United States.
Project Objective:
The project aims to solve the legal challenges faced by Yemeni migrants and refugees in the United States by:
• Raising their legal awareness.
• Establishing an effective communication mechanism to receive and address their legal issues.
• Providing the necessary legal support.
• Documenting cases to improve the legal environment.
Workstreams and Mechanisms:
1. Legal Awareness:
Educating Yemeni migrants and refugees in the United States about their rights and responsibilities, increasing their awareness of legal ways to solve their problems, and encouraging them to take the initiative to regularize their legal status through media and awareness seminars.
2. Case Management and Handling:
Establishing a system to handle cases, ensuring that migrants and refugees are informed about their legal rights and obligations, and encouraging them to resolve their issues through proper legal channels.
3. Reporting and Advocacy for Legal Environment Improvement:
Documenting cases and preparing reports to advocate for an improved legal environment that supports the integration of migrants and refugees.
Added Value for the Implementing Entity:
The Awn Project is one of the initiatives of the Association maonah for Human Rights and immigration, which serves as a coordinator for civil society organizations. It includes a number of licensed civil society organizations in the U.S. that focus on Yemeni migrants and refugees’ affairs.
• The project team includes experts from the migrant and refugee communities directly involved in addressing these challenges, in addition to Yemeni and American legal consultants experienced in immigration and asylum laws.
• A broad network of relationships with U.S. government agencies, human rights organizations, and relevant non-governmental and community organizations.
• Partnerships with Yemeni, American, and international media outlets, ensuring the project’s message reaches a wide audience.