PRAB: Protecting Rights At Borders initiative

Description

Συνεργάτες:

CSD Diaconia Valdese, DRC BiH, DRC Brussels, DRC Greece, DRC Italy, Humanitarian Center for Integration and Tolerance (HCIT), Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Macedonian Young Lawyers Association (MYLA)

Area

of implementation:

Ιταλία, Βοσνία-Ερζεγοβίνη, Ελλάδα, Βόρεια Μακεδονία, Σερβία, Ουγγαρία

Donor

EPIM

Date of implementation:

Objectives

The program aims to:Το πρόγραμμα στοχεύει:

-Strengthen protection for migrants and refugees, especially children, against unlawful pushback practices at the EU’s external and internal borders.
-Support the development of strategic litigation to affirm the principle of non-refoulement and human rights in judicial decisions.
-Monitor and document pushback incidents to increase accountability, transparency, and public awareness.

Activities

-Documenting pushback incidents by collecting testimonies and first-hand data from Greece, Balkan countries, Lithuania, Poland, and Belgium to showcase the systematic nature of these practices

-Strengthening collaboration across the PRAB network (e.g., DRC, ASGI, SIP) to share field experience and legal strategies

-Supporting strategic litigation to challenge practices and enforce non-refoulement rights legally.

-Awareness-raising campaigns targeting national and EU stakeholders, building on documented cases to advocate for change .

-Advocacy for accountability and law reform, based on sound documentation and legal evidence.

Results

Εκθέσεις:

PRAB IV: When there’s a will, there’s a way to protection – May 2022 : https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/prab4.pdf

PRAB V: Beaten, punished, and pushed back – Jan 2023 : https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/prab5.pdf

PRAB VI: What we do in the shadows – May 2023: https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/vi-prab-report_-what-we-do-in-the-shadows_-jan-to-april-2023-1.pdf

PRAB VIII: Surprisingly Surprised – Sep 2023: https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/prab-report-may-to-august-2023-_-final.pdf

PRAB Overview 2023 – Jan 2024: https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/prab-overview-2023.pdf

PRAB VIII: Pushbacks at Europe’s borders: a continuously ignored – Jan 2024 : https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/prab8.pdf

Mixed Migration in the West Balcans – Nov 2024: https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/mixed-migration-in-the-west-balkans.pdf

PRAB IX: The Pushback- disconnect – Jan 2024: https://gcr.gr/wp-content/uploads/prab-report-ix-january-to-october-2024-1.pdf

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