I HAVE RIGHTS is a new non-profit organisation providing free legal information and legal support on the ‘hotspot’ island Samos.
The organisation emerged from the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin after working on Samos for more than three years.

Our mission is…

Make justice accessible

Our international team of lawyers, legal interns and language mediators provide asylum seekers in the EU “Hotspot” Samos with free legal information about the asylum procedure, support them in reuniting with their families in Europe and challenge Europe’s degrading treatment of people seeking refuge in front of the European Court of Human Rights.

Create a network

Our goal is to create a network of lawyers and legal experts all over Europe in order to gather knowledge and experience. Through this network we aim to improve our services by creating new forms of requests for other target groups.

Pressure stakeholders

We give a detailed portrayal of each individual case that we bring in front of the ECtHR. 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!

OUR WORK

You have rights and together we will reclaim them!

In our Legal Center on Samos, we provide free legal information and support in the form of workshops, interview preparations and different legal services.

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Donate or work with us!

You can support our work as a one-time or regular donor or join our team in different paid and volunteer positions.

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Violation of Art. 3 ECHR – exception or rule?

A survey we conducted with former service-users

Each and every case we submit to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is the individual and unique story of a human being in distress. We make every case accessible and show what “degrading treatment” concretely means to the individual asylum seeker in the “hotspots”.
Each interim measure granted underscores our firm belief that these cases are no exceptions, but the manifestation of a system of degradation and human rights violations.

(Note: These figures are from an earlier survey when our service-users lived in the old Vathy Camp.)

0%
of our service-users feel unsafe or have experienced sexual violence in the “hotspot”.
0%
of our service-users report that they have received expired or moldy food at least once.
0%
of our service-users have complained about rats/snakes/insects/bed bugs/scabies in their accommodation.
0%
can not wash their hands with soap every day.

Time our service-users have to wait on average every day to get food:

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Time our service-users have to wait on average every day to receive 1.5 litres of water:

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To read more details about the cases we submitted to the ECtHR visit our Newsblog.

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