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.

Solidarity is not a soapbox speech

Defending an open society

A Positioning Statement Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Solidarity is not a soapbox speech

Defending an open society

A Positioning Statement Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Refugees and migration

Project Funding 2022

  • Support for an emergency shelter for refugee women with their children in Morocco and vocational training courses for migrants / Afrique Europe Interact (AEI) and Association des Réfugiés et Demandeurs d'Asile Congolais au Maroc (ARCOM)
  • Support for Alarmphone Sahara (APS)
  • Support for refugees / Anti-Racism-Telephone Essen (ART)
  • Promotion of the west African network for the defence of the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers and freedom of movement in west Africa / Association Malienne des Expulsés (AME)
  • Border forensics: Sahara / Border Forensics
  • Transborder Summercamp near Nantes / Clandestini - Solidarität mit Flüchtlingen e.V.
  • CommemorAction 2022 in Zarzis (Tunisia) / ClandestIni - Solidarität mit Flüchtlingen e.V.
  • Raising awareness of the dangers of illegal migration and supporting survivors and potential migrants in death boats / Cedar Centre for Legal Studies
  • Interdisciplinary anti-war hub Georgia / Educat e.V.
  • Support for refugees on the Polish-Belarusian border / Egala
  • Maldusa – a place of safety and welcome between Malta and Lampedusa / Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM)
  • Legal advice and strategic litigation – fighting the deprivation of rights on Lesvos and in the Aegean Sea / Legal Centre Lesvos
  • Self-organisation of refugees on Lesvos / Welcome Office – Borderline Lesvos

Project Funding 2022: € 427,042.77

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of migration

22.03.2023 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 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 Roma face racism and discrimination

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

26.03.2022 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 "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 Situation on the polish-belarusian border

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

16.09.2021 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 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.

08.09.2021 The world must pay attention

How do Afghan refugees in the Mavrovouni/Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos react to the Taliban's takeover? A conversation full of worries.

17.05.2021 This is not Disneyland

Refugees from Moria once again address the European public in the face of rising Corona numbers in the camp.

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