[Photograph by Afrodite Al Salech]
Unaccompanied, undocumented children are not criminals. They have done nothing wrong. They have escaped from unspeakable situations, been separated from or lost their parents and are relying on Greece to help them survive. To give them a chance. They should never be behind bars. This is deeply, deeply disturbing.
Via the United [...]
Via Yahoo News
I’m not a fan of Madonna but I am the first to support celebrities who use their fame to give voices to the voiceless. In this case, to one of the most discriminated against group of people in Europe. The Roma. It is sad but entirely unsurprising that she was booed for condemning [...]
[This 13 year old boy had been denied treatment for two days before being taken to hospital. Photograph from Noborder Camp Lesvos 2009]
Human Rights Watch are circulating this article about the plight of unaccompanied migrant children being held in Greece in appalling conditions. This follows YouTube videos, news articles and reports about the conditions in [...]
It is absolutely unbelievable.
Wildfires are raging all across Attiki and are threatening to reach Athens. People are being evacuated. Houses are burning. The children’s hospital in Pendeli has been evacuated and is surrounded by flames. I have close friends in three of the critical areas. We have been on the phone back and forth. [...]
[Photograph from Noborder Camp Lesvos 2009]
UPDATE:
Via Noborder Camp Lesvos 2009
200 people will be released from the detention centre today.
They will not be thrown into the streets, rather they will be brought to an existing facility. They will also receive the “white paper”, giving them a semi-legal status for 30 days and granting some freedom of [...]
UNHCR GREECE PRESS REVIEW (14-21 August 2009)
Tension heightens at island detention centres
Lesvos: Some 150 unaccompanied minors went on hunger strike on 19/8, to protest the appalling conditions they are being held in the detention centre of Pagani. Among the strikers are also children under 14 years old. More than 900 persons, including 270 [...]
I have posted the main body of the appeal here but you can download the full pdf here
URGENT ACTION
11 ROMA FAMILIES FACE FORCED EVICTION
At least 11 Roma families face forced eviction from their homes on a landfill site on the island of Lefkada in Greece, and have been subjected to other violations of their [...]
The article posted below was brought to my attention in the comments on the previous post. Almost 600 people are on hunger strike at a detention centre in Samos over the recent clampdown on immigrants. Hundreds are being transported from the cities to these remote places before deportation.
The article also talks about the problems [...]
Please head on over to Teacher Dude’s blog for this story of a Greek illegal immigrant in Greece
Manos was born in Greece in 1977, his parents immigrants from Iraq. He studied in the 17th primary school, Peiria and the 2nd junior high school, Renti. Everything went smoothly until 1992 when his father died. Manos was [...]
Via the Athens News
Greece has been actively rounding up undocumented people including unaccompanied minors) in recent weeks, transporting them to various detention centres around the country and preparing to deport them. Having decided to simply rid the country of large numbers of immigrants and failing to implement any kind of comprehensive and workable asylum and [...]
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