PRO ASYL awards human rights award 2016 to Father Mussie Zerai

From Idomeni to Strasbourg: Refugees demand their right to have rights at the ECtHR.

The PRO ASYL Foundation honors Mussie Zerai for his tireless efforts regarding the rescue and admission of refugees in distress at sea.

PRO ASYL and several European organizations say, the concept of "safe countries" is simply a pitiful means for the European Union to ensure under the cloak of law that the right of asylum is not applied

Lawyers take legal action before the European Court for Human Rights

PRO ASYL calls for an end to the inhuman large-scale experiment in the Aegean – stop deportations to Turkey!

On 18th and 19th Febru­ary, the Heads of the EU Mem­ber Sta­tes will meet in Brussels. In pre­pa­ra­ti­on for this mee­ting, the Euro­pean Com­mis­si­on has published docu­ments that pro­vi­de the Heads of Sta­tes with argu­ments their decis­i­ons of the sum­mit will be groun­ding on (Sta­te of Play of Imple­men­ta­ti­on of the Euro­pean Agen­da on Migra­ti­on,

PRO ASYL cate­go­ri­cal­ly oppo­ses plans by the Dutch and pos­si­bly the Ger­man govern­ment to fer­ry asyl­um see­kers from Greece back to Tur­key. “Tur­key is not a safe third coun­try. Through the­se actions, refu­gees’ human rights are effec­tively sus­pen­ded,” says Gün­ter Burk­hardt, PRO ASYL’s mana­ging direc­tor. Tur­key would beco­me “Europe’s refu­gee camp, and the human rights

PRO ASYL calls for immediate humanitarian aid in Greece and legal ways for protection seekers to travel to other European countries

PRO ASYL calls for rescue at sea and coordinated admission of refugees