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.
The Greek Ombudsman has requested the immediate release of people who were first shipwrecked and then immediately detained in the infamous detention center in Corinth, known only as "the fridge".
On 7 November, the European Ombudsman opened an inquiry into the European Commission’s administration of Greece’s EU-Funded Border Operations (case 1418/2023/VS).
We are looking for an Arabic interpreter and case-worker on Kos starting as soon as possible.
The EU interior ministers have just agreed on stricter border procedures (using a "fiction of non-entry", which will foreseeably lead to imprisonment or detention-like accommodation), an extension of the concept of "safe third countries" and an unreliable solidarity mechanism as well as the retention of the Dublin system. and the retention of the Dublin system to a large extent. For the full statement (in german), see link below the picture.
Earlier this month Equal Rights Beyond Borders hosted the first-ever conference on immigration detention on the Aegean island of Kos. The conference, which took place from June 8-June 10, brought together nearly 100 legal practitioners, scholars, and activists from across the EU to discuss the different detention practices across Europe.
