NGO Partners: Ukraine

Hebrew Immigrants Aid Society (HIAS) is a professional non-profit agency of the American Jewish community specialising in the area of international migration. Established more than 120 years ago, HIAS is one of the world’s oldest NGOs in this field and has accumulated substantial expertise in many legal and operational aspects of international migration. HIAS is headquartered in New York and has offices in eight countries of the world.

In 2001, HIAS established a representative office in Kyiv, Ukraine, where it implements several programmes, including the Legal Protection Services programme under a co-operative agreement with UNHCR.

The programme provides legal counselling and assistance to asylum seekers and refugees in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, who constitute approximately 50 percent of all asylum seekers and refugees in Ukraine. In 2003, HIAS was introduced to the Söderköping process. It also acts as a member of the network of experts.

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