The Umbrella Refugee Committee is actively promoting education and training courses to enhance refugees’ opportunities wherever they go.
To this end, thanks to the support of the UN Refugee Agency we established a partnership for 2024 with DLA Piper to provide legal training sessions to our committee members.
Under the programme “Know Your Rights (KYR)”, this renowned Global Law Firm with lawyers in over 40 countries agreed to conduct four legal training sessions aimed at improving the resources available to asylum seekers and refugees. Using a two-hour modules format, the common framework of these sessions is ‘Non-Profit organisations management‘, a crucial topic for the effective operation of our independent refugee committees.
Sessions are held at our refugee Community Centre and are open to the public upon registration. They are conducted primarly in English with consecutive translation into French, and, to ensure inclusivity, we also guarantee the presence of volunteer translators for Ukrainian, Arabic and any other language requested by the audience in advance.
Trainings overview
1
Non-profit organisations
management
Monday
10 June 2024
18:30-20:30
2
Rental contract
and disputes
Thursday
29 August 2024
18:30-20:30
3
Employment contracts
and disputes
Tuesday
15 October 2024
18:30-20:30
4
Starting a business
or NGO
Monday
2 December 2024
18:30-20:30
Take a look at the images from our first legal training session, where DLA Piper’s lawyers Melanie Dangreau, Helene Carbonnelle, and Robin Karpiel shared their insights on the topic ‘Management of a Legal Entity for a selfless purpose: Procedures, Structures, Requirements, and Liabilities’.
English 
French