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Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre and UCD School of Law are hosting a rapid response seminar on the recently published White Paper to End Direct Provision. The White Paper proposes to shift fundamentally the manner in which the…

Currently the project is working with 36 women from 14 different countries, providing participants with free English language classes and a personal plan based on their education and employment goals.  "We try to ensure that the women get…

Nasc is deeply concerned by the latest figures on the delays in the International Protection Process. The figures revealed in response to a Parliamentary Question by Catherine Connolly TD show that median processing times for all…

On the 26th January 2021 new rules on the right to work provisions for asylum seekers came into force. These new rules have reduced the period of time it takes, from 9 months to 6…

Nasc will be closed from the end of the 22nd December and we'll reopen again on the 04th January 2021. You can read our 2020 updates here. Our team would like to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday…

Our Legal Information Service will be closed between 06th April 2021 and 09th April 2021 (inclusive). Our phone line will reopen again on Monday 12th April. If you have any other inquiries, please email reception@nascireland.org Thank you…

Like everyone else around the world, Nasc’s year has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. For us in Nasc, the pandemic quickly exposed the effects of inequality and social…

In light of the publication of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG) submission to the Advisory Group on Direct Provision, Nasc would like to respond to some of the key concerns raised therein. As has been…

Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre are delighted to announce our four-part seminar series ‘Exploring the Day Report’. The seminar series co-hosted by University College Dublin Sutherland School of Law, begins on the 17th November…

UCD Sutherland School of Law and Nasc, Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre invite to you a series of short seminars discussing the recommendations of the Day Advisory Group, through reflections from those who issued the report, academic…