Romanian National Council for Refugees
CNRR offers social assistance and legal counseling services through its specialized departments to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. The CNRR ROCCORD Research and Documentation Center specializes in providing country of origin (IOC) information to all parties involved in the asylum procedure. All these services are offered free of charge.
The Spanish Commission for Refugees (CEAR) is a non-profit organization founded in 1979. Its character is volunteer, humanitarian, independent and plural. CEAR was founded based on strong ethical values, such as justice, solidarity, freedom, equality, plurality, transparency and coherence.
Bulgarian Refugee Council
The Bulgarian Council on Refugees and Migrants (BCRM) was founded in 2005 by the Bulgarian Red Cross, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and Caritas-Bulgaria as a platform of their activities related to the refugee and migration policy, protection and integration of refugees and migrants.
The Italian Refugee Council
The Italian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organization formed in 1990 in Italy at the initiative of the United Nations with the aim of defending the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. CIR works to encourage access to protection for people fleeing war and persecution and to help build decent conditions for reception and integration, with full respect for human rights. CIR is a non-profit organization, endowed with legal personality and has a light structure of legal practitioners, social, cultural mediators, doctors and psychologists.
Caritas in Turkey
Caritas in Turkey works with a variety of groups needing support: refugees, migrants, ill-treated women, children, the elderly, handicapped people and minorities. Caritas Turkey helps to provide services in the fields of emergencies, health, education, social adjustment and employment.
Poland
An important role of NGOs in the protection of asylum seekers is related to surveillance activities which include, but are not limited to, monitoring access to asylum applications at borders. A good example is the monitoring visit of the representatives of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights at the Brześć-Terespol (Brest-Terespol) border crossing between Belarus and Poland, which took place in 2016. One of the purposes of that visit was to observe the application procedure. international protection at the Terespol border crossing point. Activists also asked foreign nationals about their experiences in contacts with the Polish Border Guard (Straż Graniczna). Following the visit, the Helsinki Foundation revealed violations of the Polish.