News from Lesvos
Lawyers Against Poverty is delighted that Oxfam in Greece, European Lawyers in Lesvos and the Greek Council for Refugees yesterday announced the release of a …
The Plight of Women Refugees
Research by Amnesty International exposes the inhumane and unsafe conditions that women refugees suffer in the course of transit to Europe and once they arrive. …
Refugee Rights in 2018
On 10 December 2018, which marks seventy years since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the same day in 1948, Amnesty …
The Conditions in Moria Worsen
Last month, UNICEF issued a statement calling for children stranded in Moria on the island of Lesbos to be transferred to accommodation on mainland Greece. …
An Evening with Lawyers Against Poverty
On Monday 15 October, Lawyers Against Poverty hosted a discussion at Simmons & Simmons on the theme of what lawyers can do in aid of …
Saving Lives
On 3 September 2018, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) released a new report showing that migrants making the journey across the Mediterranean are encountering a …
An Evening with Lawyers Against Poverty
What Can We Do To Help Refugees? Lawyers Against Poverty is launching a new initiative intended to increase awareness of refugee rights issues among the …
Rohingya Women and Girls
As at 1 August 2018, close to one million Rohingyas have fled from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, seeking refuge from a military campaign …
Education Paves the Way
The European Commission has approved a new assistance package of €400 million for the education of Syrian refugees in Turkey. The action to approve the …
Coming Up Short
In late 2015, Spain, along with other European countries, agreed to accept more asylum seekers in order to reduce the strain on Greece and Italy. …