[Debate] Favor ou contra o acolhimento de refugiados na Europa?

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On this day one year ago, the EU pledged to relocate 160.000 refugees from Greece and Italy to its member states. So far, a little over 5.000 have been relocated, that's less than the average daily number of arrivals on the Aegean islands during that time last year.

At least 43 dead after boat capsizes off Egyptian coast

At least 43 are dead after a boat with 600 people capsized off the north Egyptian coast. 150 people have been rescued and hundreds more are missing. A senior security official said the dead were mostly Egyptian, Sudanese, Eritrean and Somali nationals.

Given the chaos in Libya, a rising number of refugees is now setting out from Egypt, with the number of refugees reaching Italy through Egypt nearly 70% higher than the same period of last year.

No asylum applications accepted for one month in Rome

Police headquarters in Rome stated that no new asylum application will be accepted for a month, in order to deal with the previous applications made.

It’s important to note that this suspension will affect just the city of Rome, but the asylum procedure and offices will work regularly in the rest of the country.

Volunteers and activists are worried that the number of residents of the Via Cupa makeshift camp will increase after this decision.

Events like this shine a light on the extremely slow Italian bureaucracy and on the failure of the country’s immigration policy. The Italian government struggles to set up a proper system to house refugees, as it still treats the situation as a temporary problem, expecting refugees to move on. However, crossing the border to France from Italy is becoming more and more difficult, leaving refugees in limbo.

Accommodation center set on fire this Monday

Several right-wing protests against refugees have shocked Germany in the past few weeks. On Monday night, a still empty accommodation centre for refugees was set on fire in Bremen. 500 individuals spontaneously marched against right-wing violence on Tuesday night.

Meanwhile Die Südddeutsche reports that Chancellor Merkel, will be meeting with leading politicians of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party CSU, in order to reach a compromise over the handling of the refugee crisis. Merkel’s comment that a refugee influx like in 2015 is a mistake that cannot be repeated, is seen as a peace offering by the CSU. Chair of the CSU Bundestag group Gerda Hasselfeldt said an upper limit of exactly 200,000 refugees might not be necessary, but insisted the CDU’s goal needs to be to limit the influx.

More than 5,777 people on Lesvos despite capacity for 3,500

100 people were registered on Aegean Islands in the 24 hours up to 7:30 this morning — 74 in Lesvos, 1 in Chios, 13 in Samos, 2 in Leros, and 10 in Rhodes.

The speedboat that landed in Rhodes had two Turkish families seeking protection from alleged political persecution in Turkey.

According to volunteers, one boat with 22 people landed on the north coast of Lesvos this morning and two other boats with 12 and 11 people respectively landed later during the day. More than 5,777 people are now on Lesvos, despite an official maximum capacity of only 3,500. The maximum capacity number has not been updated after the fire in the Moria camp.

The ferry that was supposed to accommodate more than 1,000 people in Lesvos will not arrive as planned, as the Greek shipping ministry has cancelled the tender. Bids are open until Friday.

Some refugees are sleeping outside Moria, with United Rescue Aid saying rain has been on and off all day, complicating the situation even more.

The New York Times reports Greek authorities have asked for more support in managing the migration crisis after the fire. Interior Ministry official Toskas is quoted calling on the EU to ‘send real, genuine aid’, as he condemned European countries that ‘build fences and then send blankets’.

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30.09.16 - Tonight, the ferry from Chios to Athens was filled with families from Lesbos. Mostly Afghans.

"Moria," one Afghan man traveling with his two children told me as a look of pain crossed his face. I don't speak Farsi but the expressions of many when they mentioned the word was enough. I sat with them for a long time as we tried to communicate in broken English and listened to their stories. The children ran around, joyous and ecstatic. I am glad that they are on the water again, this time on a big safe boat. As the ferry approached Piraeus, everyone got excited and started snapping photos. Some even asked me to join in their family shots, even though we just met.

I also saw many Syrians from Souda who weren't supposed to leave, one of them a regular at the Athena Centre for Women. I am glad they did. It was a big party. I worry for her safety as a single lady though, as a smuggler was supposed to meet her as we disembark.

I remembered a few months ago, I hopped on the ferry to Athens in order to find a 15 year old's unaccompanied minor's 11 year old brother. With the help of some, we were able to secure him but sadly wasn't able to persuade him to come back.

And tonight, on this very same ferry, I also bumped into the older brother. The big smile he cracked when we saw each other, will forever be etched in my memory.

"Europa I come, Gabi. No more prison!"

I nodded, and felt so happy for him. We kept grinning at each other. I felt so happy for all of them.

The island of Chios, even the whole of Greece must feel like one massive prison, when one doesnt want to be here.

The brothers cannot wait to be reunited and still hell bent on making their way to Germany. Together. I worry of course - the road ahead will be hard but their blood that seals their bond of brotherhood will keep them together, ensuring that they will try to find each other no matter what. May it keep them safe too.

Good luck boys. Good luck to all of you, Syrian and Afghan friends, new and old, in your Athens chapter. Keep safe.

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EU's secret ultimatum to Afghanistan: accept 80,000 deportees or lose aid

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EU signs deal to deport unlimited numbers of Afghan asylum seekers

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Stepping Over the Dead on a Migrant Boat

What a photographer saw when a rescue vessel went into action off the Libyan coast.

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Essas imagens. :o

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I am ashamed to come from the humanitarian sector…we literally failed!

 

Sobre o papel das grandes ONGS, como a UNHCR, nesta crise.

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It was with a heavy heart that the CESRT family bid goodbye on Monday to our friends SMH from Chios.

Their departure has left a big gap in terms of highly responsive professional and reliable medical aid at landings. Winter is almost here and the nights are only going to get colder. The young and old, men, women, children face a huge risk of hypothermia and we've witnessed many other medical emergencies at landings over the past year. We are urgently looking for nurses, paramedics and doctors to join our CESRT family. Please get in touch.

Please share.

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The sight of a family, kind, gentle, beautiful, who have fled from their home, Aleppo - only known to you by pictures of bombs and burnout buildings, struggling onto the ferry together laden with bags; a child wearing yellow and blue trousers and a top they knitted especially for the trip should be a joyous thing.

 

But far away, was their son, disallowed to join them because he is over eighteen, his application was rejected. His family were so distressed yet once again forced to be strong, pick up their things and move on.

 

A police officer refused to let him stand with them as they left; unlike others, those who weren't forced to be a refugee, kissing goodbye to loved ones. Instead, he was made to stand behind a police line; I begged a masked officer to let him stand with them but even after this explanation he tutted and pushed us away. Their young son was forced to watch them from afar board last, his mother and father and younger siblings struggling to carry their belongings.

 

Please do more than spare a thought for this family, who managed to escape a war condemned all over and have now been forced apart in Europe, not even allowed the humanity or dignity of a goodbye.

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https://lifeandjusticeblog.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/refugee-life/

 

We were all wrong. When we left our country, and came to Europe – we had this dream they would help their fellow human beings. But no; if it is of no benefit to them, Europeans will not help others. All the offical organisations working with refugees, which I have seen by my own eye, they are not helping. They are not helping us: they are helping to continue their own organisations and agendas. The doctors working the camps are not well-trained, they are coming here to practise on the refugees – beacause if anything happens, nobody will ask what happened. We are given the same level of care in local hospitals. The refugees coming here are engineers, doctors, carpenters, tailors, hair-dressers. They are not useless, and would love the opportunity to contribute both to the camps where they live and to wider society.

Texto de um refugiado de 15 anos

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Fotos do campo de refugiados de Souda, na ilha de Chios, depois de um ataque feito por um grupo de fascistas ligados ao partido "Golden Dawn" ontem à noite:

 

 

Curiosamente, as únicas detenções que a policia fez foi a refugiados e a voluntários.

Editado 17 Novembro 2016 por frnk th tnk

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Cocktail molotov lançado para o campo de refugiados de Souda na ilha de Chios, depois dos ataques de ontem. Fugir da guerra para isto, é nojento.

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A Neo-Nazi Group Just Attacked A Refugee Camp In Greece

 

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Pregnant woman carrying twins came to Europe to seek international protection only to have her squalid living conditions attacked by sorry excuses for human beings with molotov cocktails and rocks as heavy as 15kg.

 

Miscarried both today from the stress and fright.

 

Losing a pregnancy is akin to death of a child. And you don't just lose a child. You lose 1, 2, 16, 20 years of memories - birthdays, first steps, first words, first teeth.....

 

In this case, two lives have been lost. This is murder.

 

Nietzsche was right when he said “Man is the cruelest animal.”

 

(Photo credit efsyn.gr who also reported most accurately on the 3 days siege by the far-right on Chios)

 

Read here: http://www.efsyn.gr/arth…/i-nyhta-ton-pyrotehnimaton-sti-hio

 

The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/…/far-right-group-attacks-refug…

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Life's a bitch and it has puppies.

Lesbos tonight: 3 confirmed deaths from gas explosion. One mother and two young children.

This happened because a woman was simply trying to cook. The winterisation of the shelters is a pathetic joke. If anything we've witnessed on Chios from the attacks of the fascists, the tents catch fire and burn in 5 seconds flat, with all their meagre possessions inside.

This happened because they are left to rot in crowded and undignified conditions with inadequate fire and and safety regulations.

This happened because they should be hosted with dignity and safety but they weren't.

This happened because the politicians you've voted into power were all complicit in that dirty piece of politics that is keeping them here, while the rest of Europe shuts it doors. Your submission of individual conscience to your so-called democratic governments!

Now think of the psychological devastation it will have today on your fellow human beings.

This should never have happened.

Remember, Martin Luther King Junior's words: The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

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27.11.16

 

I was walking back to my car earlier this evening at Souda camp when I saw an Afghan family with a 10 months old baby and 5 year old sat around with a few bags and looked lost. New arrivals.

 

I learned that they stayed in a hotel for a night before running out of money. A quick check with the camp staff informed me that they have been given a tent because there wasn't any more space in Souda or Vial.

 

"Where's the tarp? pallets??" I asked. "Oh, we dont have."

 

The family was given one blanket each and a filmsy cheap looking tent. It will stand no chance in tonight's weather. One blanket, so do you cover yourself and have no padding on the gravel of the beach? Or freeze if you lay the blanket on the ground for a little more comfort?

 

These are their only choices?

 

I looked at the 10 months old baby sleeping in her mother's arms. Her mother was exhausted. She was pale. "When was the last time you've all eaten?" I asked through my translator. This morning, was the answer. New arrivals must be given food cards. Queue in line for food, like charity cases, slowly robbed of every shred of dignity as they endure the sluggish asylum process.

 

11 months in this and I still feel that familiar surge of anger and disgust rising from the pit of my stomach.

 

I raided our emergency shelter bedding at the Women's Centre for sleeping bags and blankets. The family was still struggling to set up the tent when we returned.

 

It started drizzling and the whole camp was soon plunged into darkness. It was impossible to set anything up. A single Afghan man offered his small tent to shelter the family, saying he would sleep with this friend for the night. I was struck and humbled by how quickly he offered it up - his little tent on the beach - to complete strangers.

 

As I am writing this, warm in my house, I can hear the sound of the waves and the rain. The winds are howling and I cannot get this family out of my head: How the little one slept oblivious to everything around him, and how his older sister was trying to be brave and how the family devoured the food packs we brought.

 

How the 800 other people - children as young as 3, are currently trying to sleep in Souda camp in this weather.

 

The efforts of "winterisation" of the camp is nothing short of laughable. As my friend Ludek rightly puts it: "Winterisation is humanitarian-speak for making refugee camps ready for winter conditions. In practice, it generally means moving people from flimsy, rickety, pathetic little tents covered by rags of UNHCR tarps, into slightly less flimsy, slightly less pathetic field tents - ones that may take a little longer to incinerate when doused in gasoline – placed on wooden pallets, just inches above the often muddy ground.....And we label it winterisation"

 

Let's call a spade a spade, and call out this bullshit.

 

Second night in Europe and this family's humanity and dignity has already been robbed. International human rights law recognizes everyone’s right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate housing. This isnt adequate housing.

 

It is long overdue for the Greek and EU authorities to take steps to ensure the security and protection be provided and remedy this shameful situation for people claiming their right to seek international protection.

 

Winter is not coming. Winter is already here on Chios. We don't need Erdogan. Let them go. #Opentheborders

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O ano passado, estive meses a preparar um evento que revertia para a Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados. Ultimamente tenho andado chegado a um projecto de acolhimento de refugiados. A semana passada passei um dia em modo trolha.

 

Tem sido uma experiência muito enriquecedora.

Andava um bocado descrente na sociedade mas neste tipo de coisas, quase que ganhamos uma esperança. Achei incrível como algumas empresas dispõe material, algumas pessoas dispõem o seu trabalho e como há pessoas que têm o coração/coragem/humanidade de dividir uma casa com um grupo desconhecido de refugiados.

 

Outra perspectiva que não tinha noção, é a perspectiva dos países de onde partem os refugiados.

Muitos deles sentem uma enorme gratidão.

Eles sentem que nós não estamos somente a acolher mas também formar melhores pessoas que um dia eles esperam que possam voltar ao seu país.

 

É engraçado como temos tanta gente em Portugal desesperada por ajudar e quando vê uma causa deste género, são inexcedíveis

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Announcement - CESRT Parent and Toddler Centre.

 

It has been another difficult week here on Chios, with strong winds and rain making life very hard for people in Souda. So it is wonderful to also have some good news to share. CESRT are delighted that in the next couple of weeks we will be opening the “Parent and Toddler Centre” and are teaming up with Janne Hegna to provide what we think is a very important service to parents and young children. We will be providing a safe, structured, space for children to be children and for parents to develop their parenting skills with support and encouragement from suitably trained volunteers. There will also be facilities for bathing and washing babies which has been a real challenge for the residents of Souda. There is still a lot of work to do to decorate the space, provide toys, talk to parents and other organisations. We will also be trying to recruit volunteers who have the right experience and police checks. Many parents have lived in such difficult situations that they find it hard to be parents, and children are often traumatized from the experiences they have had in their difficult and short lives, so we feel that this is a vital project for us to set up.

 

Over the next few days we will share more information and photographs about this so please watch this space! Regular updates to follow.

 

If you like to donate: https://www.youcaring.com/chios-east-shore-rescue-team-517584/update/560494

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Letter to EU: 'If you don't want refugees, stop the war'

 

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Wassim Omar. My family and I, and many other refugees, arrived on Chios island (Greece) on 20 March 2016. After we faced death many times in the Aegean Sea in the night, we arrived in the early morning at Chios and we thanked God that all of us were saved and we were very happy because we reached the first EU country.

 

We arrived to freedom and democracy countries, but unfortunately the policemen told us that we arrived on the first day of an EU-Turkey deal, so we couldn't leave the island and we had to stay here. After they got our fingerprints we asked the UN and all organisations how long we were going to stay here.

They said they don’t know. During our stay in Vial camp from 20 to 30 March, there were many fights between peopler and with police, not because refugees were bad but because they felt they were in prison. They couldn't even get a breath.

 

We moved to Souda camp and it was really very "souda". Souda in Arabic means “black”. So from that day our life got more black and black. During our stay there, we protested many times and some friends and I held a hunger strike for 21 days in May. Many media came and we spoke and told them our claims which were our right to move to Athens and to take part in the [EU] relocation programme but in vain.

 

In fact, it took eight months until we got our papers to move to Athens. All of that happened to us just because our mistake was to come after 20 March. Finally, we got our papers to move to Athens on 14 October. I asked the UN to help me to find a place to stay in Athens. They said: "Athens is full. Go and manage yourself." So my family stayed sometimes in hotels and sometimes in homes of Greek friends.

 

My message to the EU commission and Council with all my respect:

 

We fled from countries which have wars to find a safe country and better education for our children. In Syria a person dies one time but, because of the [EU-Turkey} deal, we die hundreds of times a day. Because of the deal you asked people to seek asylum here in Greece or to go back to Turkey. That means it is not our choice. It is your choice. It is not a personal choice. It is a choice imposed on us.

 

One. It is a shame on all the world because they [EU states[ close their borders in front of refugees. If you don't want more refugees you should work to stop the war in Syria and other countries. Because whenever there is war, there are refugees.

 

Two. History will write what everyone did. Who killed people and who worked hard to keep people alive.

 

Three. EU countries, as all the world knows, talk about human rights and their concern for victims of war, so I hope these words are true, not just for the media.

 

Four. Political leaders should recognise that these are people, they are human, they have a family, they have future and dreams and they deserve to have chance to get it and live it. They aren't numbers.

 

Five. In the past, Syria welcomed and showed hospitality to people and we didn't call them refugees. We opened our houses, not just our border, to everyone who needed help. History witnessed that. Today all the world has closed its borders and its humanity in our face.

 

I hope all the world lives in love and peace one day.

 

Thanks very much,

 

Wassim Omar.

Carta de um refugiado à UE

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Lost at sea: The search for missing refugees

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Far-right MP storms Athens school over refugee classes

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UN agency cuts food aid to 1.4 million displaced Iraqis

Turkey threatens to cancel migrant deal over Greek coup ruling