Press Release For the first time, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned the living conditions faced by an asylum seeker in a Greek hotspot as inhumane and degrading treatment. It found a violation of Article 3 of the Convention and awarded the applicant 5000 Euro in damages. Meanwhile, the continuing [...]
Press Release Samos organisations, I Have Rights and the Human Rights Legal Project, present evidence to the Council of Europe on systematic human rights violations against people on the move in Greece, including torture, pushbacks and lack of investigations into such violations. VATHY, 24 March 2023 - In their Rule 9 [...]
Press Release In their report out today, I Have Rights demonstrates that the Samos CCAC is a place of unlawful de facto detention which violates people on the move’s legal right to liberty and security as well as the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment under international law. VATHY, February 23rd, [...]
In our joint contribution to a consultation launched by the EU Ombudsman under an inquiry on how the Commission can ensure human rights compliance in new 260 million euro EU funded reception facilities on the Greek islands, I Have Rights (IHR) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) highlight that the Samos [...]
I Have Rights is one of 14 signatory organizations that sent a letter to the Minister of Migration and Asylum in September last year to raise the alarm on the risk of homelessness faced by recognized refugees due to administrative delays. Not only has the Minister not answered said letter but the situation has [...]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Updates from Samos Dear supporters of I Have Rights, 2022 was a tumultuous year for many, including for us on Samos. While the world's highest ever number of displaced people was counted in 2022, and most of these people were placed in neighbouring and low/middle-income countries, the European Union continues its [...]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Updates from Samos Dear supporters of I HAVE RIGHTS, as you most probably have noticed we decided to send our updates from Samos now quarterly. The last three months have seen a further increase in asylum seekers reaching the island. At the same time, legal actors on the island have witnessed [...]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Newsletter #3 Dear supporters of I HAVE RIGHTS, another month has passed and so we are writing to you to give you an update from Samos. This month has seen an increase in asylum seekers reaching the island, and so our team is busier than ever. Yet, while we try to [...]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Newsletter #2 Dear supporters of I HAVE RIGHTS, welcome to our second newsletter! For new subscribers or in case you missed the first issue, you can find all newsletters on our website in the newsletter archive: https://ihaverights.eu/news/newsletter-archive/ The current situation on Samos Increasing movement restrictions The movement restrictions on asylum seekers [...]
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Welcome to the 1. Newsletter of I HAVE RIGHTS! Who are we? I Have Rights is a new legal organisation operating on Samos, Greece. We emerged from the Refugee Law Clinic Berlin after operating on the island for more than 3 years. We decided to found a new organisation to be [...]
