ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This report was written by Sumaiya Islam, Zaid Hydari, Coline
Schupfer, and Kevin Cole, with the support of other colleagues
from both the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Refugee
Solidarity Network, namely Alexandra Zetes and Joana Clemens.
A special thanks goes to Grant Mitchell, Hannah Gordon, and
Jessica Laidler from Nationality for All, for their central role
in organizing a webinar series from September to December
2020; their invaluable support made this report possible.
Special thanks also to all the legal experts that informed and
shaped this report, especially Sara Hossain, Brian Barbour,
Vivienne Chew, Davina Wadley, Manzoor Hasan, Haider Imtiaz,
Ravi Hemadri, Lalita Yawangsan, Deepa Nambiar, Lars Stenger,
Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Razia Sultana, Nimisha Srivastava,
Naiyana Thanawattho, Khalid Hussain, and Maalini Ramalo.
The report was edited by David Berry. We would like to thank T.
Alexander Aleinikoff and Ian M. Kysel, of the Secretariat of the
Global Strategic Litigation Council for Refugee Rights, for their
review of and suggestions on a draft of the report.
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Covere photo: Refugees gather outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees in Jakarta, Indonesia, on January 26, 2017. Photo: © Kemal Jufri/NYTimes/Redux
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