For the right to stay. For the right to move. Everywhere.

Project focus migration

All over the world people are fleeing from war, poverty and hopelessness. Our partners fight causes of flight, provide humanitarian relief, medical care, psychological assistance and legal counseling to refugees. In countries of origin and transit states, in the place we call home, in networks of solidarity. Becaues everyone has the right to live in dignity. Everywhere.

Freedom of expression

Am I a Berliner?

"Nur für geladene Gäste". Schild in Tür

The policy of raison d'état [reason of state] is also tantamount to a frontal attack on the capital of the Arab exile communities. By Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

Solidarity is not a soapbox speech

Defending an open society

A Positioning Statement

Analysis

The End of Protection

On the Reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). By Bernd Kasparek.

Refugees & Migration

Here’s to the smugglers

After the refugee boat capsized off Pylos, nine people on board were arrested and brandished smugglers - just like thousands of other refugees languishing in European prisons. They are in fact heroes.

Freedom of expression

Am I a Berliner?

"Nur für geladene Gäste". Schild in Tür

The policy of raison d'état [reason of state] is also tantamount to a frontal attack on the capital of the Arab exile communities. By Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

Analysis

The End of Protection

On the Reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). By Bernd Kasparek.

Solidarity is not a soapbox speech

Defending an open society

A Positioning Statement

Refugees & Migration

Here’s to the smugglers

After the refugee boat capsized off Pylos, nine people on board were arrested and brandished smugglers - just like thousands of other refugees languishing in European prisons. They are in fact heroes.

Refugees and migration

Project Funding 2024

  • Supporting the West African Network for the Defence of the Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers and Freedom of Movement / Association Malienne des Explusés
  • Support for refugees / Antirassismus-Telefon Essen (ART)
  • Research project on the European push-back regime at the Polish-Belarusian border / Border Forensics
  • Caravan in Senegal for missing migrants / Boza-Fii
  • Legal support / Boza-Fii‘s awareness-raising work
  • Strengthening legal support and advocacy work for Syrian refugees and irregular migrants in Lebanon / Cedar Centre for Legal Studies
  • Legal support for Syrians and Lebanese in the context of flight / Cedar Centre for Legal Studies
  • Interdisciplinary anti-war hub Georgia / Educat e.V.
  • Support for refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border / Egala
  • ‘Maldusa’ - Support for the land stations for refugees and migrants on Lampedusa and in Palermo / Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM)
  • ‘Maldusa’ - a place of safety and welcome between Malta and Lampedusa / FFM
  • Support for an emergency shelter for refugee women and mothers as well as vocational training courses for migrants in Morocco / Globale Gerechtigkeit e.V.
  • Anti-repression work - support for Grupa Granica in Poland / Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
  • Core support and legal battles at the EU‘s external border in the Aegean Sea / Legal Centre Lesvos
  • Core support / Migreurop
  • Self-organisation of refugees on Lesvos / Welcome Office – Borderline Lesvos

Project Funding 2024: € 484,977.10

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of migration

20.06.2023 Open letter
"This shipwreck brings back my pain"

Open letter from over 180 human rights organizations and initiatives together with Tima Kurdi, aunt of Alan Kurdi, following the deaths of up to 600 people off Pylos, Greece.

03.04.2023 Refugees and Migration
Create a place of freedom

At the launch of the project "Maldusa" on the island of Lampedusa and in Sicily, we spoke with the team about its importance in the fight for freedom of movement.

22.03.2023 Displacement and migration
Final stop - desert

Migration in the Sahel: As the EU exerts pressure, more and more people are left stranded in Agadez, Niger.

21.03.2023 Refugees and Migration
Accountability in the Sahara

The investigative agency Border Forensics on the conditions that have led to mass death and disappearance of migrants traveling cross-Saharan routes through Agadez.

06.04.2022 Flight from Ukraine
Roma face racism and discrimination

Interview with Dr. Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska * about the situation of Roma fleeing the war in Ukraine.

26.03.2022 Migration
The limits of solidarity

On the situation of Ukrainian and other refugees in Poland. Paper presented at the "El Hiblu 3 Freedom Conference", March 26-27, 2022, Malta.

05.03.2022 Interview
"All people should be welcomed"

Racism and unequal treatment: Katarzyna Czarnota from Grupa Granica on the situation on Poland's borders with Belarus and Ukraine.

31.01.2022 Migration
Situation on the polish-belarusian border

A status briefing from our partners Grupo Granica as of March 9, 2022

16.09.2021 Samos
A place in the middle of nowhere

On Saturday, the new refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos opens. It does not improve the situation of the refugees. By Julia Manek.

14.09.2021 To Europe
Recognition and Admission, Now!

After the fall of Kabul: The people on the Greek islands – refugees and residents – should no longer pay the price for Europe's completely misguided and inhumane asylum policy.