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EU: MED-CRISIS: UNHCR warns of deepening refugee crisis in Greece and calls for urgent and bold action
14 August 2015
"The UNHCR Directors of the Bureau for Europe and of Emergency, Security and Supply, visited Greece last week to assess the refugee crisis in the country, where some 124,000 refugees and migrants have arrived by sea this year – as of 31 July"
See the article:
UNHCR warns of deepening refugee crisis in Greece and calls for urgent and bold action (link)
And see:
EU leaders will use military against refugees, warns leading MEP (euractiv, link)
Emergency funds sprout up to temper storm of refugee crises (euractiv, link). See also:
Statement by Commissioner (pdf)
And:
Europe shouldn’t worry about migrants. It should worry about creeping fascism - The greatest threat to our “way of life” is not migration. It is that we will swallow the lie that some human lives matter less than others. (New Statesman, link):
"The behaviour of the British and wider European elite towards migrants is not simple inhumanity. It is strategic inhumanity. It is weaponised inhumanity designed to convince populations fracturing under hammer-blows of austerity and economic chaos that the enemy is out there, that there is an “us” that must be protected from “them”"
Kos migrants: 'They said they'd give us papers, then locked us in like a prison' - After being held in a stadium on the Greek island, refugees tell of their ordeal – as immigration officials bemoan Kos mayor’s alleged lack of cooperation (Guardian , link)
Media should speak out against hate speech (European Fegeration of Journalists (link):
"The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has joined the Italian organisation on Carta di Roma welcoming the new initiative launched by the Italy newspaper La Stampa to counter hate speech. The EFJ has called on media professionals to be aware of the danger of discrimination being furthered by the media through hate speech following recent debates and media coverage on “migrant crisis” in Europe."
How EU countries handle the refugee crisis: Overcrowded registration centers or welcome courses? Integration or deportation? Refugees arriving in Europe are hoping for support, but depending on where they go, they’re treated very differently. (DW, link)
Greece: Migrants still struggle in Kos detention center: No roof, few toilets, hours of waiting in the blazing sun - that's how the EU receives migrants on the Greek island of Kos. The humanitarian aid organization Doctors Without Borders is trying to help. (DW, link)