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New Pact on Immigration and Asylum: Unacceptable regression in the protection of asylum seekers

Refugee Support Aegean | 11 July 2024

New Pact on Immigration and Asylum: Unacceptable regression in the protection of asylum seekers

The recent adoption of the reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) in May 2024 marked the deconstruction of EU rules and the annulment of basic security guarantees for the protection of refugees, as well as the establishment of wide-ranging derogation regimes and violations of the rule of law.

Refugees & Migrants
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Acknowledgment of Racist Motive in the Case of the Events at Sappho Square

hias.org | 11 July 2024

Humanitarian Governance
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Greece Country Report

This report draws on information inter alia provided by the Directorate of the Hellenic Police and the General Secretariat for Vulnerable Persons and Institutional Protection (GSVP) of the Ministry on Migration and Asylum, national and international jurisprudence, reports by international, European and national human rights bodies and institutions, international and non-governmental organisations, publicly available data, media information as well as GCR’s observations from practice and information provided by the GCR Legal and Social Unit.

Events
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Conference in honour of Evthymios Papataxiarchis Mytilini, 17-18 May 2024

The Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean invites you to a scientific conference in honour of Emeritus Professor Evthymios Papataxiarchis
Mytilene, 17-18 May 2024
Amphitheatre of Geography Department

Refugees & Migrants
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Press conference of the defense team for the nine survivors of the Pylos shipwreck

The team of defense lawyers for the nine survivors of the Pylos shipwreck invites you to a Press Conference on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 12:00, at ESIEA (Athens Press Union, 20 Akadimias Street, Athens, 3rd floor). The trial of the nine Egyptian survivors of the deadly shipwreck of Pylos is set for the 21 May 2024, in Kalamata.

Centers & Facilities
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The martyrdom of the drop for 2,000 refugees in Leros
Centers & Facilities
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The martyrdom of the drop for 2,000 refugees in Leros
Refugees, Migrants & Humanitarian Governance
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Detection and rescue of 41 refugees and migrants in Kos and Tilos
Refugees & Migrants
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Symi: Pursuit of a speedboat with migrants by the Coast Guard - One foreigner dead
Other Islands
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Tilos: Touching rescue of a 50-day-old refugee baby - Drinking milk with seawater
Refugees, Migrants & Humanitarian Governance
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Arrest of a trafficker after a chase in Mavra Volia
Refugees & Migrants
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Symi: Shots fired during a chase of a speedboat with migrants - Greek boat bombed, trafficker injured
Refugees & Migrants
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From Afghanistan, to Lesvos and to the Olympic Refugee Team in Paris!
Refugees & Migrants
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Collection of 33 refugees and migrants from Panagia Oinousses
Refugees & Migrants
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Rhodes: the largest migrant trafficking ring was dismantled by the National Intelligence Service and the Coast Guard
Refugees & Migrants
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29 employers in Lesvos expressed interest in recruiting asylum seekers
Refugees, Migrants & Humanitarian Governance
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New Pact on Immigration and Asylum: Unacceptable regression in the protection of asylum seekers
Refugees & Migrants
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Acknowledgment of Racist Motive in the Case of the Events at Sappho Square
Refugees & Migrants
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36 refugees in Kardamyla, Chios
Local Societies
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Without extenuating circumstances the guilty for the "pogrom" in Sappho Square
Lesvos Society
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On Tuesday the decision for the 26 accused in the "pogrom" in Sappho Square
Refugees & Migrants
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Swim For Good in Mytilene
Refugees & Migrants
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A 30-year-old smuggler was arrested
Humanitarian Governance
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Sappho Square was crowded with people on World Refugee Day
Humanitarian Governance
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Greece Country Report
Refugees & Migrants
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Annual Report 2023 of the Informal Forced Returns Incident Recording Mechanism
Refugees & Migrants
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Boat chase with one refugee - migrant dead and five injured
University of the Aegean
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Α group of academics from Université Côte d’Azur and the Observatory for Migrations and Societies (URMIS) visited the Observatory and Archive of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean and the Department of Social Anthropology and History
Events
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Conference in honour of Evthymios Papataxiarchis Mytilini, 17-18 May 2024
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