Category: Media Archive

Τhis report by Equal Rights Beyond Borders, HIAS, Refugee Support Aegean, Danish Refugee Council and Pro Asyl, examines the workings of border procedures implemented on the Greek islands from June 2021 to June 2022, revealing new concerns tied to poor quality of asylum procedures and to breaches of fundamental rights. These add to an abundant body of international criticism of the Greek asylum system and merit close scrutiny, not least in the context of ongoing EU-level negotiations on the reform of the Common European Asylum System.

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In this report, borderline-europe, Borderline Sicilia, Flüchtlingsrat Berlin, Sea-Watch and Equal Rights Beyond Borders. critically examine the ‘solidarity’ solution propagated by the EU for the arrival and redistribution of people detained in so-called hot-spot camps in Greece. They focus on the extent to which this procedure allows people seeking protection to preserve their autonomy as well as to escape situations of extreme insecurity. What does relocation offer people seeking protection within the EU to arrive and build a future? Does European asylum policy also relieve the burden on asylum seekers or is relocation exclusively about relieving the burden on EU member states that
are located at an external border of the Schengen area due to the Dublin Regulation?

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CPT, Borderline-Europe & Bordermonitoring.eu

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Report of Pro Asyl on how the number of refugees is ever increasing, and how the EU continues to tighten their defence measures against people seeking protection. Deterrence, detention and isolation in camps – that is the response to people fleeing violence, injustice and oppression. Undoubtedly it makes a huge difference to individuals affected whether they find themselves in a Libyan torture camp, a miserable EU hotspot, or a German »AnkER« centre, where they can demand their human rights to be respected. But no matter which camps we are talking about: an end must be put to the internment and isolation of people seeking protection. Camps are places of control, stigmatisation, humiliation and violence – strategies used in an attempt to deny asylum to those seeking protection. The common foundation of Europe’s democratic societies is under threat. EU member states must guarantee individual human rights. Camps are unworthy of a society committed to human rights.

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