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  • Greece: Camp Conditions Endanger Women, Girls

    (Athens, December 5, 2019) – Women and girls face relentless insecurity in Greece’s overcrowded Moria “hotspot” for asylum seekers and migrants on Lesbos island, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing a video that shows the dire conditions. The Greek government should take immediate action to ensure safe, humane conditions for women and girls in line with their international human rights obligations and standards for humanitarian emergencies.






     
    As of December 2, 2019, the Moria Reception and Identification Center was holding nearly 16,800 people in a facility with capacity for fewer than 3,000. Overcrowding has led authorities, as well as some asylum seekers and migrants themselves, to erect shelters outside Moria’s fenced boundaries, first in the adjacent area called the Olive Grove and now in a second olive grove, which has no water and sanitation facilities. In all areas, women and girls, including those traveling alone, are living alongside unrelated men and boys, often in tents without secure closures.

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    201910WRD Lesbos Women Girl from behind
    201910WRD Lesbos Women Girl in grass
    201910WRD Lesbos Women Moria Camp dusk
    201910WRD Lesbos Women Moria Camp Lesbos Greece
    201910WRD Lesbos Women Portable Toilets
    201910WRD Lesbos Women Woman with bags
    201910WRD Lesbos Women Woman with infant
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