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Surviving Deterrence: How US asylum deterrence policies normalize gender-based violence

11/10/2022

2 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Migrants and asylum seekers often flee unspeakable acts of gender-based violence (GBV) at home such as human trafficking, sexual assault, sexual slavery, kidnapping, harassment, and other trauma. In trying to seek safety in the US, many endure further atrocities and exploitation at the US-Mexico border. Drawing on interviews and surveys of social and legal service […]

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Briefing paper

A People’s Vaccine For Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people

30/11/2021

3 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As we continue to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital that no one is excluded from vaccine coverage. This briefing note addresses some of the challenges faced by displaced people – including refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, stateless people, and others in displacement contexts – in accessing COVID-19 vaccinations. It identifies a range of […]

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Briefing paper

Detention as the Default: How Greece, with the support of the EU, is generalizing administrative detention of migrants

16/11/2021

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Putting migrants and asylum seekers into detention for administrative reasons is a common practice in Greece, despite this policy contravening human rights. Greek authorities are using detention and the new EU-funded closed compounds as a way to discourage people from seeking asylum in Europe. Detention, as outlined in Greek law, should only be used as […]

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Briefing paper

Tipping the Scales: The role of responsibility- and solidarity-sharing in the situation on the Greek islands

15/02/2021

1 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English

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This report assesses the impact of EU countries’ refusal to relocate asylum seekers on the Greek islands. It illustrates that they have consistently failed to show solidarity by not delivering on commitments to relocate people, either by refusing to participate in the first place or by not fulfilling their pledges. This has left thousands of […]

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Briefing paper

Diminished, Derogated, Denied: How the right to asylum in Greece is undermined by the lack of EU responsibility sharing

02/07/2020

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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The new Greek asylum law that entered into force on 1 January 2020 has significantly diminished protection for people seeking asylum. The law and its amendments increase asylum seekers’ vulnerabilities, while limiting access to their fundamental right to seek asylum and be protected from serious risks. Meanwhile, the Greek policies and practices are part of […]

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Media briefing

Vulnerable and abandoned: How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum

09/01/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Greece and its EU partners are failing pregnant women, unaccompanied children, victims of torture or sexual violence and other vulnerable people who seek protection in Europe. These people are being put at risk by flawed processes and chronic understaffing in EU ‘hotspot’ camps on the Greek islands. They do not receive adequate support from the […]

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Surviving Deterrence: How US asylum deterrence policies normalize gender-based violence

A People’s Vaccine For Refugees: Ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and other displaced people

Detention as the Default: How Greece, with the support of the EU, is generalizing administrative detention of migrants

Tipping the Scales: The role of responsibility- and solidarity-sharing in the situation on the Greek islands

Diminished, Derogated, Denied: How the right to asylum in Greece is undermined by the lack of EU responsibility sharing

Vulnerable and abandoned: How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum