Humanitarian Governance

The Mechanism for Recording Incidents of Informal Forced Returns (Recording Mechanism), established by the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR) to strengthen objectivity and reliability in reporting incidents of informal forced returns from Greek territory, is releasing its 2024 Annual Report.

109 Οργανώσεις ζητούν να αποσυρθεί άμεσα η παράνομη αναστολή της πρόσβασης στο άσυλο στην Ελλάδα.

Aθήνα, 14 Ιουλίου 2025 – Το Δίκτυο Καταγραφής Περιστατικών Ρατσιστικής Βίας (Δίκτυο) παρακολουθεί με αυξανόμενη ανησυχία τη διολίσθηση του δημόσιου λόγου προς την ξενοφοβία, τη ρατσιστική ρητορική και την υποχώρηση του σεβασμού σε βασικές αρχές του κράτους δικαίου με αφορμή τη διαχείριση του μεταναστευτικού και προσφυγικού ζητήματος στη χώρα.

Το νέο τεύχος του Δελτίου Νομολογίας Ασύλου παραθέτει αποσπάσματα από 82 αποφάσεις διοικητικών, πολιτικών και ποινικών δικαστηρίων, Ανεξάρτητων Επιτροπών Προσφυγών και της Υπηρεσίας Ασύλου, που εκδόθηκαν το πρώτο εξάμηνο του 2025.

Granting of refugee status to survivors and supplementary criminal investigation. The survivors of the Pylos shipwreck on 14 June 2023, whom we legally represent, along with most other survivors, were finally granted refugee status at the end of 2024, following persistent efforts, and while some of their asylum applications had initially been rejected at the first instance.

Clear evidence of serious criminal liability among senior Coast Guard officers – Unacceptable interference by the Ministry of Shipping

Even asylum interviews are no longer being conducted
Severe deficiencies in interpretation services over recent months have affected both refugee camps in Greece and the Greek Asylum Service. These gaps now hinder the state’s ability to provide essential services.

On Friday, November 1, 2024, the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Mytilene issued a verdict on the events of March 1, 2020, at the port of Thermi on the island of Lesvos, concerning the attack on German photojournalist Michael Trammer and the racially motivated acts of violence against newly arrived refugees.

On Friday 4 October 2024 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in line with the Advocate’s General Opinion, ruled that Member States cannot issue a decision rejecting an asylum application as inadmissible on the basis of the concept of a “safe third country” in cases where they have established that the asylum seeker will not be allowed to enter the territory of a country designated as safe.