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Unaccompanied children at the gates of Europe A report from Samos
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Unaccompanied children at the gates of Europe A report from Samos
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Europe s Rights Body Urges Greece to Stop Migrant Pushbacks
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Open letter: “All children have the right to go to school. Do not take that away from them” [EN/EL]
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The Minister of Education and Religious Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Niki Kerameus
The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen
The European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth,
Mariya Gabriel
The European Commissioner for Justice and Consumers, Didier Reynders
Athens, March 9, 2021 – The undersigned organisations express deep concern about the situation relating to asylum seeking and refugee children’s access to education in Greece over the past few years. Specifically, for the past six years it has not been possible to guarantee smooth and unimpeded access to education for asylum seeking children. As a result, the majority of these children have been deprived of one of their fundamental rights. These issues have become so intense over the last year tha
The Cruelty of Containment: The Mental Health Toll of the EU’s ‘Hotspot’ Approach on the Greek Islands
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Almost five years on from the establishment of five EU-funded Reception and Identification Centres (RICs) or ‘hotspots’ on the Greek islands, nearly 15,000 people remain stranded in these camps.
Having survived harrowing journeys to Europe, they find themselves trapped in dangerous, overcrowded and inhumane living conditions for months, and many for as long as two years.
People who came in search of safety are instead further traumatised by their present and anxious about their future. In September 2018, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) published ‘Unprotected, Unsupported, Uncertain’. This report detailed the shortcomings at the heart of the EU’s asylum and migration policies and their detrimental impact on the mental health of asylum-seekers living in Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. Two years later, this new IRC report finds that the sit