EU: Survey: Alternatives to Detention of Asylum Seekers in EU member states

Mutual concerns for asylum seekers in detention, including alternatives to detention, conditions and treatment, access to assistance,length of stay,efficiency of judicial review and protection needs of vulnerable groups, motivates the partners: Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) from the Czech Republic,Poland Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (Polish HFHR), Foundation GEA 2000 from Slovenia and Apanemi from Cyprus, to form the Regional Advocacy Coalition.The Regional Advocacy Coalition has helped each participating NGO accomplish more with their monitoring by dividing up areas of work, especially in the supportive studies, by defining common positions and strategies and thereby strengthening advocacy work, by implementing joint programs that ensure high standards, evaluation and review, creates support measures for long term sustainability and by learning from shared experiences. 

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