Press Release | Visit of the UN High Commissioner to Greece
On Thursday, November 28, 2019, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Philippe Grandi, visited the Reception and Identification Center in Moria, Lesvos, to see firsthand the human cost of immigration policies that have stuck to more than 39,000 people and dangerous camps. On the occasion of Mr Granti's visit, 17 organizations* active in Greece delivered a written communication urging the Greek authorities to raise important concerns regarding access to the asylum process, the provision of essential services and the inadequacy of child protection.
You can read the full press release in English in the attached file.
*ActionAid, Arsis, Danish Refugee Council, Defence for Children International, Diotima, Elix,Greek Council for Refugees, Greek Forum of Refugees, Help Refugees, International RescueCommittee, Medecins du Monde, Mobile Info Team, Network for Children‟s Rights, Oxfam,Refugee Legal Support, SolidarityNow, Terre des hommes Hellas.
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The Network for Children’s Rights acquired non-profit organisation status in 2004, but actually began as an informal action group four years earlier with the aim of raising awareness of problems relating to the righs of children and interceding in order to solve them. It encourages initiatives and actions to ensure that the UN International Convention on the Rights of the Child is implemented in Greece, to guarantee respect for diversity and to put an end to discrimination. Its members are teachers, parents, university lecturers, authors, artists and children who work on a voluntary basis both within and outside the school community. They carry out surveys, campaigns and programmes.
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