I Have Rights (IHR) is a non-profit refugee law clinic on Samos. Since beginning operation in March 2022, IHR has provided legal counselling and representation to over 820 asylum seekers and provided legal information to around 1,500 people through their information hotline. IHR closely monitors and documents human rights violations against asylum seekers on Samos, and in particular 1 has published various reports on the Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) . IHR engages in advocacy and strategic litigation, including with stakeholders at the Council or Europe, EU and UN 2 . IHR is a member of the Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) 3. Mobile Info Team (MIT) is a non-profit organisation based in Thessaloniki that provides information and assistance to people throughout all stages of asylum and related procedures across Greece. Beginning operations in 2016, MIT has provided vital information to up to 9,000 individuals per year through hotlines available in six languages. Its legal team offers in-depth support in a wide range of legal matters, including issues related to integration and the Dublin Regulation. Additionally, MIT advocates for changes to the asylum system in Greece by engaging with stakeholders at a European Union and international level. Based on its work in Greece, MIT has published numerous reports on 4 5 the lack of access to asylum , immigration detention centres as well as on the situation of asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection with regard to living conditions, integration, and 6 risk of destitution. MIT is a member of the BVMN. Equal Legal Aid (ELA) is a non-profit organisation based in Thessaloniki providing pro bono legal assistance and representation to asylum seekers during their asylum procedures in northern Greece. Since beginning its operation in September 2020, ELA has provided individual legal support and representation to 1,297 people. Representation is provided at all stages of the asylum procedure, 7 including on appeal and before administrative Courts. To tackle the challenges linked to the isolation of applicants in remote facilities, ELA also manages a hotline, through which 1,338 people have received guidance on asylum procedures since January 2022. 1. See for example: I Have Rights. 2023. The EU-Funded Closed Controlled Access Centre - The De Facto Detention of Asylum Seekers on Samos. Available at: https://ihaverights.eu/de_facto_detention_in_the_ccac/; I Have Rights. 2023. “They are killing minds”- Life in the Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre. Available at: https://ihaverights.eu/they-are-killing-minds/ 2. See for example: I Have Rights and BVMN. 2023. Third Party Intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in A.B. v Greece and D.G. v Greece. Available at: https://ihaverights.eu/third-party-intervention-to-the-european-court-of-human-rights/; I Have Rights and the Border Violence Monitoring Network. 2023. Policy Brief to MEPs on evidence of Aegean pushbacks. Available at: https://ihaverights.eu/policy-brief-on-new-evidence-of-aegean-pushbacks/ ; I Have Rights and the Human Rights Legal Project. 2023. GREVIO evaluation report on the implementation of the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. Available at: https://rm.coe.int/joint-report-of-i-have-rights-and-the-human-rights-legal-projectngos/1680aaa214; I Have Rights and the International Rescue Committee. 2023. Contribution to EU Ombudsman Consultation: Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre breaks EU human rights standards. Available at: https://ihaverights.eu/samos-closed-controlled-accesscentre-breaks-eu-asylum-standards/ I Have Rise and Still I Rise. 2022. Greece’s Compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child Additional Submissions Report for the 90th Session of the Committee on the Rights of Child. Available at: https://www.stillirisengo.org/site/assets/files/1290/final_uncrc_sir_and_ihr_additional_submission.pdf 3. The Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) is a network of non-governmental organisations situated along the Balkan and Greek migration route, whose purpose is to monitor, document and litigate human rights violations at European borders. 4. Mobile Info Team. 2023. Protection Unavailable: Dysfunctional Practices and Restrictions on the Right to Asylum. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/ric; Mobile Info Team. 2021. Lives on Hold: Access to asylum on mainland Greece, Crete and Rhodes. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/livesonhold; Mobile Info Team.2022. Blocked from the system. Voices of people excluded from the asylum system on mainland Greece, Crete and Rhodes. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/blockedfromthesystem; Mobile Info Team. 2022. Control and Containment: Changes in access to asylum on mainland Greece, Crete and Rhodes. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/control; 5. Mobile Info Team. 2023. “Prison for Papers”: Last Resort Measures Used as Standard Procedure. Available at: www.mobileinfoteam.org/detention 6. Mobile Info Team. 2021. The living conditions of applicants and beneficiaries of International Protection. Available at: https://www.mobileinfoteam.org/accommodation-report 7. Since 2021, ELA’s lawyers lodged 104 appeals before the Appeals Committees, submitted 96 requests for annulment and 73 requests for provisional measures. More information is available online: https://www.equallegalaid.org/activity-reports/. 01