Diavata refugee camp, 2023 © Mattia Bidoli

Publications

Library

2026

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Reports

Breaking the Continuum of Violence : Confronting Greece’s Failure to Protect Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Survivors of gender-based violence in Greece are routinely denied international protection. Decision-makers often dismiss or minimise their experiences; impose evidentiary burdens that no survivor could reasonably meet; and ignore the impacts of trauma and displacement. These practices leave survivors without protection and trapped in vicious circles of fear and insecurity.

2026

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Open letters and statements

As the Ministry reconsider the JMD on free initial legal counseling, we demand: Legal guidance must serve rights, not deterrence As the Ministry of Migration and Asylum revisits its Joint Ministerial Decision on “free initial legal counselling” for asylum seekers, ELA and other organisations warn that the new scheme structurally subordinates legal guidance to Greece’s “prison or return” doctrine.

2026

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Case Law

Contribution to Greek Asylum Case Law Report (Issue 1/2026) ELA contributed 9 decisions to the newly released Greek Asylum Case Law Report, covering the first half of 2026.

2026

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Case Law

Jurisprudence collection, VOLUME II, 2023 - 2025 A practitioner-orientated compilation of decisions issued between March 2023 and December 2025 in cases represented by lawyers collaborating with ELA before Greek administrative courts, the Appeals Committees, and the European Court of Human Rights.
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Lost in a legal maze

11 stories of asylum seekers in Europe

The documentary series ‘Lost in a legal maze’, produced with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Greece, focuses on eleven asylum seekers, assisted by ELA lawyers, who retrace their legal journey since arriving in Greece.

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Thessaloniki © Sideris Nanoudis, 2023

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