The European Court of Human Rights calls on Greece to accommodate and provide medical care to an extremely vulnerable family of recognised refugees, found homeless pending the completion of certain administrative procedures
The report "Immigration Detention Across Borders" examines the detention of asylum seekers in the U.S. and EU, highlighting the severe human rights violations inherent in these practices. Through firsthand accounts and legal analysis, it underscores the need for humane alternatives and transnational cooperation to address this global issue.
Two more families of vulnerable recognized refugees were recently evicted from the Kos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) and found themselves homeless, in precarious conditions, and with no access to food, facilities or medical care.
On June 13, 2024, at 6:30 PM CET, we will be hosting a webinar on the topic "75 Years of the Grundgesetz – Asylum Law, Constitution, and Europe" on Zoom. !The Webinar will be in German only! The discussion will feature Prof. Dr. Pauline Endres de Oliveira and Dr. Patrice Poutrus. Please register via the link below - we will send out the access details in good time before the event. We look forward to active participation!
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled in the case of the unaccompanied minor W.S. against Greece that the conditions for an unaccompanied child in Greece constituted inhuman and degrading treatment and thus violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The non-governmental organization Equal Rights Beyond Borders, a partner organization of terre des hommes, represented the refugee W.S. in his case before the court.
The reform of the Common European Asylum System is doomed to failure – because it is inspired by camps in which people are treated in a degrading or inhumane way, as recognised by the European Court of Human Rights.
For a project on immigration detention, we look for two dedicated and experienced colleagues. We have two open positions, one in our Athens Office and one in our Kos Office, also occasionally covering cases from Leros. Both positions are for a project implemented in close cooperation between the Athens, the Kos and the Berlin Office. Detention will be a focus of the work while also other cases in the wider field of asylum will be undertaken.
Equal Rights Beyond Borders is publishing its third in-depth report on the use and conditions of immigration detention on Kos. For three years of being based with our legal office on the Aegean island of Kos close to the Turkish border, we have gained extensive insight into the immigration detention practices on this island and in the EU in general.
More than half of the 108 million people on the move are categorized as women. Women are particularly vulnerable in an environment of flight and migration. The real danger of sexualized and gender-based violence is omnipresent - whether in the country of origin, on the run or in Europe. Even though binding provisions, such as the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention, provide for comprehensive protection, this is nowhere to be found in reality.
On 12 March 2024 at 6:30 pm CET we will host a Webinar on "Women on the move - forgotten, neglected, abandoned" on Zoom. It will be in German only. Please sign up below, we will send a link to the event to your email in due time before.
