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Greece Builds Walls of Concrete Around Refugee Camps
” width=”794″>A concrete wall is being installed at the Ritsona refugee camp, north of Athens. Video frame
Greece has been erecting concrete walls at several refugee camps across the country, a move decried by human rights groups.
Wired concertina fencing has stood between asylum seekers in wait, housed in Greece, and the surrounding area. A change in policy has three-meter concrete walls being erected at four camps on the mainland.
” width=”1080″>The Ministry of Migration and Asylum sites modernization for the change from the wire to concrete barriers. The fencing is meant to keep residents inside the camps safe from trespassers, according to the ministry.
Athens, Greece - Parwana Amiri initially noticed the concrete wall she had built around a refugee camp in mainland Greece a few weeks ago in the morning.
Summary
Decades of slow but steady progress in educating more children around the world abruptly ended in 2020. By April, an unprecedented 1.4 billion students were shut out of their pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools in more than 190 countries, in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. As the pandemic persisted, schools in some countries or jurisdictions reopened for in-person teaching, or opened for some students, while elsewhere schools have remained closed ever since with learning to greater or lesser extent taking place online or otherwise remotely. In some places, there have been waves of schools opening only to close again. An estimated 90 percent of the world’s school-aged children have had their education disrupted by the pandemic.