Diavata refugee camp, 2023 © Mattia Bidoli

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16-10-2026

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Case Law

Thessaloniki Administrative Court Upholds Appeal by Gender-Based Violence Survivor A case litigated by ELA resulted in the annulment of a decision rejecting the asylum application of a survivor of gender-based violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The asylum authorities had dismissed the violence she experienced as a “private dispute” and ordered her return to her country of origin.

09-10-2026

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Case Law

Wrongful Nationality Assessment: Greek Administrative Court Grants Interim Protection to Eritrean Asylum Seeker Recent court development: a case litigated by ELA resulted in granting interim protection to an Eritrean asylum seeker whose application for international protection had been rejected after the asylum authorities did not accept his claimed Eritrean nationality and instead assessed him as Ethiopian, ordering his return to Ethiopia.

07-08-2026

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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.

20-07-2026

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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.
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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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