Free legal information and legal support for all asylum seekers and refugees on Samos.
I HAVE RIGHTS is a new non-profit organisation that emerged from the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin after working on Samos for more than three years. Together with Avocats Sans Frontières we are working in the SAMOS LEGAL CENTRE on individual cases like interview preparations, family reunifications and appeals.
The international team consists of lawyers, legal experts and interpreters.
Latest News
Human Rights Defenders on Samos call for Frontex to suspend operations in Greece
Human rights defenders on Samos are demanding the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, also known as Frontex, terminate its operations on the Greek island of Samos. This comes after mounting evidence that Greek [...]
The Committee of the Rights of the Child Sides with Still I Rise and I HAVE RIGHTS.
In its most recent evaluative report on Greece, released on June 9, 2022, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has demanded that Greece cease its detention of refugee youth [...]
“A Life Without Freedom Is Not A Life”
20th of June 2022 Today marks WORLD REFUGEE DAY, but it's no reason to celebrate. It's a day to raise awareness of the fact that not all refugees are safe in Europe and there [...]
I HAVE RIGHTS in the media:
The Left Berlin: German media reporting on joint letter from organisations based on Samos to FRONTEX, demanding to suspend all operations in Greece immediately. (18.07.2022)
La Repubblica: Italian media reporting on IHR’s and Still I Rise’s submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). (27.06.2022)
Reliefweb: Publishing of the second report from the Samos Advocacy Collective revealing the living conditions in the new closed and controlled camp on Samos (20.06.2022)
What we do
We make justice accessible
Our international team of lawyers, legal interns and language mediators provides asylum seekers in the EU “Hotspot” Samos with free legal information about the asylum procedure, supports them in reuniting with their families in Europe and challenges Europe’s degrading treatment of people seeking refuge in front of the European Court of Human Rights.
We pressure stakeholders
In our understanding, the situation on Samos is not a humanitarian crisis, but the result of EU policies. We give a detailed portrayal of each individual case that we bring in front of the ECtHR and publish different campaigns on our advocacy page. By exposing the systematic, degrading conditions asylum seekers in the Greek “hotspots” have to live in, we want to put pressure on stakeholders to achieve systematic change.
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