Name of the organization: Tafawol Association for Special Needs and Development
Title of the project: Assesing the Legal Rights of Newly Arriving Sudanese to Egypt
Date of the update: October 10, 2024
Over the past month, Tafawol staff members have held two interviews with refugee lawyers, one who is independent and another who works for Saint Andrew’s refugee services, on the updates to legal entitlements owed to Sudanese refugees and migrants in Egypt.
Questions asked related to the Four Freedoms Agreement, residency, UNHCR application and closed-file refugees, education, housing, employment, healthcare, access to courts, detention and expulsion, and documentation for things like birth, marriage, and death certificates. Notes were taken at both meetings. Currently, the research consultant and deputy chair are analyzing the information against the 2020 Refugee Entitlements in Egypt report published by the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo.
This information is being written down in a mapping document which shows the similarities and changes with regard to these entitlements since 2020 for Sudanese refugees and migrants. The mapping document will be finalized by October 15, 2024.
