Humanitarian Governance

In a complaint submitted on 11 September, four civil society organisations call on the European Commission to immediately initiate legal proceedings against Greece’s three-month suspension of the right to asylum and immediate deportation applied to people arriving from North Africa by sea.

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 organisations call for the immediate withdrawal of the illegal suspension of access to asylum in Greece.

Athens, 14 July 2025 – The Racist Violence Recording Network (the Network) is increasingly concerned by a noticeable shift in public discourse towards xenophobia, racist rhetoric, and diminishing adherence to fundamental principles of the rule of law, in the context of migration and asylum management in the country.

The new issue of the Greek Asylum Case Law Report released today provides excerpts from 82 decisions by administrative, civil and criminal courts, the Independent Appeals Committees and the Asylum Service, issued in the first half of 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

Δεν διεξάγονται πλέον ούτε καν οι συνεντεύξεις ασύλου
Τεράστιες είναι οι ελλείψεις που επικρατούν τους τελευταίους μήνες στην παροχή υπηρεσιών διερμηνείας, τόσο στα προσφυγικά καμπς σε ολόκληρη την ελληνική επικράτεια, όσο και στην Υπηρεσία Ασύλου, και οι οποίες πλέον οδηγούν σε αδυναμία παροχής οφειλόμενων υπηρεσιών εκ μέρους της διοίκησης.

Την Παρασκευή 1 Νοεμβρίου 2024 το Μονομελές Πλημμελειοδικείο Μυτιλήνης  αποφάνθηκε για τα γεγονότα που έλαβαν χώρα στο λιμανάκι της Θερμής την 1η Μαρτίου του 2020 στη Λέσβο, και συγκεκριμένα για την επίθεση κατά του Γερμανού φωτορεπόρτερ Michael Trammer και τα ρατσιστικά εγκλήματα κατά των νεοαφιχθέντων προσφύγων.