Volunteer experiences

In context of this electronic magazine that is part of the project "Youths acting for solidarity" funded by the Foundation Open Society - Macedonia, we briefly present the experiences of volunteers who were or are still involved in helping refugees, have worked or collaborated with NGO Legis. ...

Dozens Of Toddlers Drown Off The Coast Of Libya

They are among more than 1,300 migrants and refugees who have died this year in the central Mediterranean.

Punishing those who help refugees - 'a perverse logic'

Aid workers or human traffickers? Legal uncertainty in Europe has hampered people's willingness to help refugees. What is legal, and what will be punished?

The Refugees in a Broken Mirror of Fear

How a Syrian refugee family changed my life

It had never bothered me that we were a family forged between a lapsed Jew and Hindu. But that we had become a family of lapsed humans did. Then we met Khaled and his family.

Deploying armed Frontex teams on the 'Balkan Route': agreements with Serbia and Macedonia on the way

Will the deployment of armed European Border and Coast Guard teams in Serbia and Macedonia - with immunity from the civil and criminal law of those countries - improve the chances for protecting the fundamental rights of migrants and refugees, or legitimise the violence and abuse that is...

Migrant rescuers accuse EU border agency of conspiracy

A Spanish group which has been rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean since 2016 accused the EU's border control agency Frontex Wednesday of plotting to discredit private aid organisations in order to put off donors.

The Refugee King of Greece

“No risk, no life,” a teenage migrant told me, before jumping on a freight train.

Letting people drown is not an EU value

595. A nice round number, right? It refers to the dead and missing in the central Mediterranean, mostly between Libya and Italy, in the first three months of 2017. The known dead died from drowning, exposure, hypothermia, and suffocation. Horrible, agonising deaths.

Oxfam-Report on push backs

EU-Turkey deal fails to stop refugee flow

A year after the EU-Turkey Deal came into force, thousands of refugees remain stranded in Greece. The most desperate try to reach Europe by any means. Marianna Karakoulaki and Dimitris Tosidis report from Thessaloniki.

Refugees in Greek legal limbo: 'I want to go back to Syria to die'

Living in makeshift camps, facing ill health and fearing deportation: the life of refugees after signing of EU-Turkey deal

Dealbreaker: EU migration policy causes more harm and chaos one year after EU-Turkey deal

As we mark the first anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, the EU’s migration policies are more contradictory than ever. Characterised by political manoeuvrings and short-term unsustainable solutions, they ignore evidence and by-pass democratic procedures.

Detention of asylum seekers

Detention is defined in the recast Reception Conditions Directive as the confinement of an asylum seeker within a particular place, where the applicant is deprived of his or her freedom of movement. Beyond the Directive, the human right to liberty sets out applicable standards in relation to the...

DUBLIN III Returns to Greece

As soon as you arrive in the country of your final destination, you should look for counselling and advice by people there who specialise in preventing Dublin-returns, who can assist with asylum procedures, and who can help you to go through all procedures in the best way possible.