01.11.2024 -37 organisations are calling on the Greek authorities to urgently restore interpretation services for asylum seekers, whose access to vital services, including healthcare and the asylum procedure itself, is currently being hampered by these disruptions.
30.10.2024 – Following Ursula von der Leyen’s recent endorsement of offshore detention centres, and other EU leaders announcing various rollbacks on asylum and refugee rights, migrant-led organisations write to EU institutions to demand alternatives to the EU’s deadly border regime.
Open Letter EU leaders: Change course and end your war on migrants Read More »
28.10.2024 -ELA has joined more than 80 organisations in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen calling for the abolition of Frontex and its replacement with a migration policy based on care and compassion that redistributes resources to provide access to safe routes and support for people on the move.
Open Letter Abolish Frontex for its 20th Anniversary Read More »
02.10.2024 – 8 organisations are calling on the Greek state to examine how the new EU Pact on Asylum and Migration, which will come into force in 2026, will affect the Greek asylum system
07.08.2024 – 19 organisations are calling on the Greek state to resume cash assistance to asylum seekers, which has been halted since May 2024, leaving people in extreme precariousness.
07.08.2024 – I Have Rights, Mobile Info Team and ELA presented evidence to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in their review of the implementation of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece & Rahimi v. Greece, denouncing the appalling conditions still faced by asylum-seekers in Greece.
16.07.2024 – The signatories of the letter call on the government to take all the necessary actions so that the beneficiaries of international protection can exercise the social rights to which they are legally entitled under the same conditions as Greek citizens and are not excluded from the right to health and social assistance.
29.05.2024 – The signatories of the statement call on the Ministry to take action to ensure the continuous and unimpeded provision of interpretation services during reception and identification procedures and throughout the whole processing of asylum claims.
30.04.2024 – Through the stories of eleven asylum seekers, our video series “Lost in a legal maze” aims to reveal the difficulties of navigating a legal system designed to fail them.
Lost in a legal maze, a series of 11 stories of asylum seekers in Europe Read More »
21.03.2024 – On the eighth anniversary of the EU-Turkey Statement, ELA signed the letter on the normalisation of containment of migrants on the Greek islands, in hotspot camps, and expanded and erroneous use of safe third country concept.
Eight years of Violence, Discrimination, Segregation, and Exclusion Read More »
