Amidst warnings from over 50 Civil Society Organisations, EU lawmakers reached a political agreement on the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum in December. The agreement is a continuation [...]
RLS is one of 20 civil society organisations to have joined together to denounce inhumane and degrading living conditions in the Samos refugee camp – known as the Closed Controlled [...]
RLS’s Athens Legal Coordinator, Lucy Alper, recently delivered training to staff of Meraki community centre in Athens. She covered the asylum procedure and people’s rights as well as history and [...]
My name’s Chris Randall, I’m a former human rights solicitor and the chair of trustees at RLS. On International Migrants Day, I thought it was a good time to reflect [...]
Europe’s (digital) borders must fall End the expansion of the EU’s EURODAC database Civil society calls for an end to the expansion of EURODAC, the EU database for the registration [...]
27/11/2023, Athens On 19th October, we joined 33 other civil society organisations, led by the Greek Council for Refugees, to send a letter to the Ministry of Migration regarding the [...]
Read the full report here. 16/11/2023, Athens Claiming asylum is a basic right, yet in Greece people have long been subjected to destitution and left undocumented as they struggle to [...]
Ελληνικα παρακάτω / Greek version below Athens, 9th of November 2023: The undersigned organizations are sounding the alarm on the ongoing malfunctioning of the country’s reception system that deprives asylum [...]
Greece remains the first place in Europe that many people fleeing persecution land. Demand for our support here is huge. However, with so much else happening, Greece has slipped out [...]
My name’s Zofia, I’m an immigration and asylum lawyer in the UK and have worked in the sector for 20 years now. I recently joined the RLS team to supervise [...]
