External Support Directory

r/ExMuslim: public Reddit global peer support network

Faith to Faithless (UK): support helpline and in-person meetups for religious trauma survivors

Recovering From Religion: global support groups and helplines for religious trauma survivors

Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain: online and in-person peer support meetups and workshops

Ex-Muslim Support Network of Australia (EMSNA): virtual peer support group for Ex-Muslims living in Australia

Ex-Muslims of North America (EXMNA): local support groups

Secular Therapy Project: global network of secular therapists providing 1:1 counselling

Faithless Hijabi: not-for-profit organisation connecting Ex-Muslims with therapists

Divorcing Religion: paid therapy services with a religious trauma specialist

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre: provides essential information for people seeking asylum in Australia about the visa application process and available services, to help you understand and access your rights

Atheist Refugee Assistance Program (ARAP): provides crucial support and assistance for non-believing refugees who have sought refuge in Turkiye due to religious persecution

Atheist Support Network: If you are an atheist at risk or if your life is unbearable because you are an atheist, contact asn.service@atheistalliance.org

Atheist Refugee Relief: provides practical assistance to refugees in Germany

Defend Defenders: provides protection support to human rights defenders in/from the East and Horn of Africa

IIE Artist Protection Fund: fellowship grants to threatened artists from any field of practice, and places them at host institutions in safe countries where they can continue their work and plan for their futures

UNHCR - The United Nations Refugee Agency: support for refugees and asylum seekers

Human Rights Protection Fund: provides rapid financial assistance to those who defend human rights

IIE Artist Protection Fund: fellowship grants to threatened artists from any field of practice, and places them at host institutions in safe countries where they can continue their work and plan for their futures

Scholars at Risk: protects scholars suffering grave threats to their lives, liberty, and well-being by arranging temporary research and teaching positions at institutions in our network as well as by providing advisory and referral services

Lila.help: lists accurate, vetted and safe helplines and local emergency service information for more than 90 countries

Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration: provides support for LGBTIQ asylum seekers worldwide

Rainbow Railroad: provides support for LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics

Committee to Protect Journalists: provides short-term, emergency support to working journalists and media workers following an incident related to their journalistic work. Support includes financial and non-financial assistance

Human Rights Protection Fund: provides rapid financial assistance to those who defend human rights

Reporters Respond: provides support to media professionals in distress with emergency assistance, legal support, and safety advice

Reporters Without Borders: provides financial and administrative assistance to professional journalists and citizen-journalists who have been the victims of reprisals because of their reporting

ProtectDefenders.eu: provides a 24/7 emergency helpline and other support for human rights defenders across the globe at risk of persecution

Secular Rescue: designed to assist human rights advocates, specifically journalists, secular-freethought writers and bloggers, and secular publishers and atheist rights activists whose lives and freedom are in danger because of their writing, nonreligious views, and related public activism