Vulnerable and abandoned: How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum

Publication language
English
Pages
10pp
Date published
09 Jan 2019
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Protection, human rights & security, Forced displacement and migration, Host Communities
Countries
Greece
Organisations
Oxfam

Greece and its EU partners are failing pregnant women, unaccompanied children, victims of torture or sexual violence and other vulnerable people who seek protection in Europe. These people are being put at risk by flawed processes and chronic understaffing in EU ‘hotspot’ camps on the Greek islands. They do not receive adequate support from the authorities that are legally responsible for protecting them and are being abandoned in overcrowded camps in squalid conditions. Many people live in unheated tents and do not have sufficient access to washing facilities and toilets, and winter is only making their situation worse.