Greece
Greece hosts large numbers of asylum seekers but often fails to protect their rights or respect the right to asylum, including by pushing new arrivals back to Turkey. Ukrainians are an exception. Migrant children face homelessness and lack adequate healthcare and education. Impunity for police ill-treatment is common. Victims of hate crimes are reluctant to report attacks to the police. A wave of killings of women by their current or former husbands or partners highlighted the multiple barriers women face seeking protection from domestic violence. Curbs on civil society groups assisting migrants and interference with independent media raise concerns about the rule of law.
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Greece: New Biometrics Policing Program Undermines Rights
Risk of Illegal Racial Profiling and Other Abuses
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Greece: Migrant Camp Lead Contamination
Inadequate Government Response; Lack of Transparency Put Health at Risk
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Greece’s Surveillance Scandal Puts Rights At Risk
Public Inquiry Needed to Tackle Chilling Effect on Media Freedom
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The EU Continues to Acquiesce to Greece Border Abuses
European Commission, Frontex Need to Uphold Human Rights
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The Hand at the Helm of Frontex
EU Border Agency Needs an Executive Director Committed to Human Rights
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A Suffocating Environment for Greek Civil Society
UN Expert Calls on Government to Stop Criminalizing Humanitarian Work
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Greece Using Other Migrants to Expel Asylum Seekers
Stripped, Robbed, and Forced Back to Turkey; No Chance to Seek Asylum
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A Ray of Hope in Fight Against Greece’s Border Abuses
Human Rights Court Warns Against Summary Removal of Asylum Seeker
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Greece Should Know that Refugees Can Come from Anywhere
Solidarity for Ukraine Ignores Greece’s Harsh Treatment of Others in Need
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Normative standards and obligations under international law in relation to the promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons
HRW Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
