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October 23, 2017 Letter

Joint Letter to Prime Minister Tsipras re Deteriorating Conditions for Asylum Seekers Trapped on the Aegean islands

September 27, 2017 News Release

Greece: Highest Court Fails Asylum Seekers

OKs Deporting 2 Syrian Men to Turkey Without Hearing Refugee Claims

A Frontex officer (L) escorts a deportee onto a boat on the Greek island of Lesbos, April 4, 2016.
August 28, 2017 Commentary

Outsourcing Border Control to Morocco a Recipe for Abuse

migrants sitting outside tent by morocco border
August 2, 2017 News Release

Italy: Navy Support for Libya May Endanger Migrants

Help for Libyan Coast Guard Risks Complicity in Abuse

Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015.
August 2, 2017 News Release

Greece: Huge Rise in Detention of Migrant Children

Move Unaccompanied Kids from Cells to Open Facilities

Unaccompanied children line up for an evening meal at a detention facility run by the Greek police.
July 31, 2017 Report

Spain: Migrants Held in Poor Conditions

Automatic Detention, Obstacles to Seeking Asylum

A migrant rescued off the Spanish coast arriving at the port in Malaga, southern Spain, December 3, 2016.
July 26, 2017 News Release

France: Police Attacking Migrants in Calais

Government Ignores Widespread Reports of Ill-Treatment

French police detain two migrants, one a 14-year-old boy, before dispersing a late-night food distribution in Calais on June 29, 2017.
July 12, 2017 News Release

EU: Draft Code for Sea Rescues Threatens Lives

Leaked Document Would Tie Nongovernmental Groups’ Hands

Migrants look at south Italy's coast as they approach on the Vos Hestia ship after being rescued by " Save the Children" crew on the Mediterranean sea off the Libya coast, June 20, 2017.
July 4, 2017 News Release

EU: Boat Migration Demands Shared Responsibility

Rescue and Safe Ports Needed as Libyan Authorities Unable to Guarantee Rights or Protect People

A migrant is rescued from the mediteranean sea by a member of Proactiva Open Arms NGO some 20 nautical miles north of Libya on October 3, 2016.
June 19, 2017 Report

EU: Shifting Rescue to Libya Risks Lives

Italy Should Direct Safe Rescues

Aerial photograph of overcrowded migrant boat, taken at 05:01 UTC on May 10, 2017, and provided by Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Rome to Sea-Watch 2 for identification purposes.
May 9, 2017 Statement

Greece: NGOs Decry Policy Limiting Asylum Appeal Rights

May 4, 2017 Dispatches

Playing Politics with People’s Lives

Attacks in Italy on Efforts to Save Migrants’ Lives in the Mediterranean

Migrants aboard a boat following their rescue from their drifting dinghies in the Mediterranean Seas by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms
April 28, 2017 Dispatches

‘My Brother is Being Deported Today’

Iranian Asylum Seeker’s Case Shows Flaws of EU-Turkey Deal

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April 28, 2017 Report

Spain: LGBT Asylum Seekers Abused in North African Enclave

Transfer Sexual Minorities from Ceuta to Mainland

Double-layer fence around Spain’s north Africa enclave Ceuta, January 2017.
April 11, 2017 Commentary

Letting People Drown is not an EU Value

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