Humanist Immigration & Asylum Information
Humanist Mutual Aid Network is frequently contacted by atheists & humanists who want to leave their religious nation - to live somewhere else where they won’t be persecuted for their non-belief.
This request is often made by Ex-Muslims, from Afghanistan, Morocco, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc. Ex-Christians also ask HuMAN for assistance - notably from Ethiopia.
This webpage aims to be a resource center, listing everything HuMAN knows about this topic.
NOTE: To get asylum as a victim of persecution for being an atheist, applicants usually need to back up all their assertions with documentation, i.e., threatening letters, emails, photos. Applicants also need to provide proof that they are who they say they are, and they often need to provide at least 2 references who can confirm their identity and all of their statements.
The following groups can be contacted:
Secular Underground Network - provides moral support, job finding, help fleeing a dangerous situation, shelter, and study assistance to atheists, agnostics, secularists, and apostates. Their scope stretches out to all freethinkers or people that are being persecuted because of their beliefs or the way they chose to live their lives. If you need help urgently, fill out this form.
Atheist Refugee Assistance Program (ARAP) provides services to atheist refugees in Turkey.
Secular Rescue / Center for Inquiry (email: mcravatta@centerforinquiry.org)
Eureka Community / Facebook Page (email: info@eureka-c.com)
International Atheist Alliance / Asylum Protocol (email: asn@atheistalliance.org)
Asylum Access / Address: C/O Port Workspaces, 344 Thomas L Berkley Way, Oakland, CA 94612 / Telephone: +1.510.891.8700 / email: info@asylumaccess.org
Refugee Empowerment Center Omaha, Nebraska
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (email: hello@ex-muslim.org.uk)
Atheist Refugee Relief - located in Germany, can provide information and assistance.
The Aman Project is a refugee- and trans-led LGBTQ+ grassroots organization based in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2017, the Aman Project started as a local initiative to provide shelter for refugees from the LGBTQ+ community in Istanbul. Since then, the Aman Project has evolved to runningas a grassroots initiative that runs a number of programs centered on advancing the rights of refugee LGBTQ+ persons in Turkey and the wider MENA region. More specifically, the Aman Project focuses on:
Providing emergency financial assistance and access to basic needs (such as shelter, rent assistance, food, and medicine) for LGBTQ+ refugees in Turkey and Afghanistan
Supporting the resettlement and evacuation of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers from Turkey and Afghanistan to third countries
Facilitating access to psychosocial support for LGBTQ+ refugees
Advocating and campaigning on the rights of LGBTQ+ refugees in the MENA region
Humanist Mutual Aid Network has contacts in Nepal that can assist humanist refugees there.
Links to Canadian Immigration articles are below: