Seeking Sanctuary: Legal Confidence to Legal Empowerment
Seeking Sanctuary: Legal Confidence to Legal Empowerment Amid reports that two million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion and calls on the UK …
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Seeking Sanctuary: Legal Confidence to Legal Empowerment Amid reports that two million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion and calls on the UK …
As we prepare to launch a new initiative supporting human rights defenders to tackle environmental injustices, we remember some of those who have lost their …
Legal organisations in the Moria camp in Lesvos call for urgent measures to protect asylum seekers on the island Thousands have been left without shelter …
LAP members recently approved a grant of £15,000 to increase access to vital legal services in the Lesvos refugee camp through Oxfam’s partnership with the Greek …
Covid-19 has made us all wonder what to expect from “the new normal”. For Philip Worthington, managing director of European Lawyers in Lesvos (ELIL), one …
On the 21st of July 2020 Lawyers Against Poverty hosted an online webinar with Oxfam, discussing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic upon human rights. …
The start of a new year in Lesvos has seen the arrival of a paradoxical new challenge: while a bottleneck of asylum seekers applying for …
Is the right to asylum related to the language spoken by the asylum seeker? Could a victim of torture be deprived of his right to …
Report on Lawyers Against Poverty and guest speakers event, November 2019 On 14 November Lawyers Against Poverty hosted an evening of talks on the topic: …
According to the World Health Organisation, it is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), …