{"id":2801,"date":"2015-11-12T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2017-07-11T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T11:45:16","slug":"five-ways-europe-save-refugee-lives-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/five-ways-europe-save-refugee-lives-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"[:el]\u03a0\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03c1\u03cc\u03c0\u03bf\u03b9 \u03bc\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03af\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b7 \u0395\u03c5\u03c1\u03ce\u03c0\u03b7 \u03b8\u03b1 \u03bc\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b5 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03c3\u03ce\u03c3\u03b5\u03b9 \u03b6\u03c9\u03ad\u03c2 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c6\u03cd\u03b3\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf \u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03bc\u03ce\u03bd\u03b1[:en]Five ways Europe could save refugee lives this winter[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MYTILENE, 3 November 2015 (IRIN) &#8211;\u00a0<em>Currently on leave from the UN emergency aid coordination body OCHA, Greek humanitarian worker Fotini Rantsiou has spent the last three months as a volunteer on the island of Lesvos.\u00a0<\/em>As the death toll mounts in the Eastern Mediterranean, with stormy seas claiming the lives of at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/203045\/article\/ekathimerini\/news\/greece-rescues-1400-from-sea-over-the-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 refugees<\/a>\u00a0in the last week of October, many of them children, the EU\u2019s slow and fragmented response to the refugee crisis is looking increasingly ineffectual.<\/p>\n<p>Months of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report\/102148\/refugee-crisis-another-summit-another-action-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summits and action plans<\/a>\u00a0have still not provided refugees with an alternative to putting their children in flimsy boats and handing over large sums of money to smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on Friday, following a series of fatal shipwrecks in the Aegean, Greek Prime Minister\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/greece\/11966747\/Migrant-crisis-makes-me-ashamed-to-be-in-EU-says-Greek-PM.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexis Tsipras<\/a>\u00a0told his parliament he felt \u201cshamed as a member of this European leadership, both for the inability of Europe in dealing with this human drama, and for the level of debate at a senior level, where one is passing the buck to the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read the whole article press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irinnews.org\/report\/102185\/five-ways-europe-could-save-refugee-lives-this-winter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MYTILENE, 3 November 2015 (IRIN) &#8211;\u00a0Currently on leave from the UN emergency aid coordination body OCHA, Greek humanitarian worker Fotini Rantsiou has spent the last three months as a volunteer on the island of Lesvos.\u00a0As the death toll mounts in the Eastern Mediterranean, with stormy seas claiming the lives of at least\u00a070 refugees\u00a0in the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}