Equal Rights Beyond Borders is a charitable organisation, founded in 2016, headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and Athens, Greece, with additional offices on the Greek islands Chios and Kos. It offers free legal support to refugees and asylum seekers, particularly towards the reunion of families and helping with visa procedures. Beyond this, it also offers assistance in cases of detention, and where there is need for access to social rights, and its lawyers take on cases of severe human rights violations. With these aims it both represents specific clients and also takes on certain strategic cases where litigation may help draw attention to more general issues. Therefore it operates in Greek and German and European courts.
In 2023 it started a project supporting survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), in the asylum procedure, in criminal proceedings and matters of family law.
Equal Rights Beyond Borders partnering where appropriate with other organisations in Greece, Germany and at European Union (EU) level. In 2022 they published a joint report with HIAS Greece, addressing the Border Procedures on the Greek island.
Among the Equal Rights Beyond Borders co-founders was the lawyer, human rights activist and current Bundestag member Clara Bünger, who established the organisations first office on the greek island of Chios.
It is in receipt of grant funding from a number of humanitarian organisations, including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.