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Up to 600 people drown off Pylos, Greece – only days after EU leaders agreed to further erode the right to asylum Open letter signed by over 180 human rights [...]

A new guide produced by the Afghan Pro Bono Initiative provides much-needed step-by-step information on the UK’s Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP). The new guide: به زبان فارسی اینجا [...]

Supporting colleagues and allies in the sector to more effectively support their clients is a key part of our strategic plan. As part of this commitment, Lucy Alper recently delivered [...]

DATE: Thursday, June 15, 2023 TO: Mr Daniel Esdras, Minister of Migration and Asylum; Mr Emmanuel Logothetis, Special Secretary-General for the Reception of Asylum Seekers; Ms Patrina Paparrigopoulou, Minister of [...]

Dear Suella Braverman, We, the undersigned, are writing to express deep concern about the proposal to house asylum-seekers arriving to the UK on the barge ‘Bibby Stockholm’ as of July [...]

Photo credit: ©bookerphotos As a coalition of 176 civil society organisations representing the human rights, migrant, refugee, asylum, anti-slavery and trafficking, children’s, violence against women and girls, LGBTQI+, disability rights, [...]

For the last year, RLS has been running our Calais project. We provide up-to-date, high quality UK legal support and information to people blocked in Northern France and the organisations [...]

On the 21st of March, together with our APBI team and guest speakers, we reflected on the significance of Nawruz in Afghan culture, and heard about how Nawruz promotes the [...]

Photo credit: @bookerphotos Alongside a colleague from Mobile Info Team, RLS’s Elèna Santioli discusses the denial of basic human rights for people seeking asylum in Greece and the EU’s outsourcing [...]

RLS is a co-signatory to the below joint statement, available here in Greek and in Turkish. March 18 2023 marks the 7th anniversary of the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement. In 2016, [...]