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

08.09.2021 Greece – Afghanistan
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 Open letter
This is not Disneyland

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

17.03.2021 Moria Complex
A policy of externalisation

The camp and disenfranchisement system has taken on a new quality. A balance sheet following 5 years of the "EU-Turkey deal". By Maximilian Pichl

23.12.2020 Open letter
Christmas greeting from Moria II

Self-organized refugee groups from the new Moria camp address Europe in a Christmas letter. The letter of the medico partner organizations in the wording.

17.11.2020 Migration policy
Protecting borders instead of refugees

After the fire at the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos: How Europe is flogging off the human rights that underpin it at the Greek EU border. By Ramona Lenz.

02.11.2020 Migration
Shadows of the Corona Crisis

The EU's new asylum and migration pact still relies on shady cooperation. By Ramona Lenz.

29.09.2020 Moria as blue print
EU turns even further away from those hoping for protection

With its new asylum and migration pact, the European Union is turning even further away from those hoping for protection and participation in Europe. By Ramona Lenz and Valeria Hänsel.

17.03.2020 Appeal
Refugees Welcome! Don’t Shoot!

While Europe is taking strict measures against corona, Greece cannot guarantee medical care for the refugees.

05.03.2020 Solidarity
A coalition to “shield” migrants and refugees against violence at the borders

We will hold Greece and the EU accountable for the violations of the rights of migrants and refugees fleeing Turkey.

31.08.2018 Repressive policy against refugees
Alleged "voluntariness"

All over the world, refugees and emigrants are being forced out of the countries where they have sought refuge. With sheer violence, but in many cases also by programmes for so-called “voluntary” return. By Ramona Lenz.