The Global Asylum Seeker Human Rights Defenders Committee (GASHDC) is a frontline marginalized people’s social justice movement working at the local, regional, and international levels to address asylum embedded human rights abuses, monitor and inspect asylum third-party country destinations and amplify the voices of human rights defenders in asylum as we strive to bring to an end the inhuman degradation faced by asylum seekers.

There has been a steady increase in the number of countries at war resulting in the generation of a massive flow of people seeking protection elsewhere. As new conflicts continue to erupt, and old conflicts grow, the world’s willingness to support those affected is being overstretched to a breaking point.

Asylum seekers arrive in the safety countries overwhelmed with emotional experiences of torture. Their faces are still engulfed in fear, anger, insecurity and sadness. Despite being engulfed by such hysterical emotional experiences, it is critically alarming that asylum settings do not provide reliable programmatic trauma management. The long case-processing duration experienced, unusual deaths that go uninvestigated (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/25/asylum-seekers-deaths-home-office-housing-data), sexual exploitation with promises of work and residence authorization, widespread discrimination in social services, traumatizing shared accommodation, stigma, sexual minority bullying and racial inequity during and before integration have all been associated with psychological disorders, suicide, and suicide attempts, and in developed countries where this is rampant, States have kept silent, justifying how asylum has lost values and purpose. GASHDC works to free asylum seekers and refugees from the most unethical and ruthless silent human rights abuses occurring behind asylum camp walls.