{"id":5052,"date":"2018-03-16T13:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2018-04-25T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T11:24:52","slug":"joint_press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/joint_press\/","title":{"rendered":"[:el]\u03a0\u03a1\u039f\u03a3\u039a\u039b\u0397\u03a3\u0397 \u03a3\u0395 \u039a\u039f\u0399\u039d\u0397 \u03a3\u03a5\u039d\u0395\u039d\u03a4\u0395\u03a5\u039e\u0397 \u03a4\u03a5\u03a0\u039f\u03a5: \u0394\u03c5\u03bf \u03c7\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03b9\u03b1 \u03bc\u03b5\u03c4\u03ac \u03c4\u03b7 \u03a3\u03c5\u03bc\u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03b1 \u0395\u0395-\u03a4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03ba\u03af\u03b1\u03c2: \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b1\u03bd\u03b8\u03c1\u03c9\u03c0\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03b3\u03c9\u03b4\u03af\u03b1 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03c0\u03c1\u03cc\u03c3\u03c6\u03c5\u03b3\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c2 \u03b1\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03cd\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ac\u03c3\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf[:en]Two years after the EU-Turkey Deal: a humanitarian tragedy for refugees and asylum seekers[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Athens, 16 March <\/em>2018<em>.<\/em> Two years following the implementation of the EU-Turkey Deal, many refugees and asylum seekers continue to be trapped in the Greek islands, deprived of their basic human rights and access to international protection.<\/p>\n<p>On this second anniversary, and whilst legal appeals against the geographical limitation of asylum-seekers to the islands are still pending, we continue to stress that the regime of reception and asylum at the EU borders has been brought to a dramatic standstill from every perspective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Humanitarian<\/strong>, as thousands of people are still trapped in island hotspots, living in a state of constant insecurity about their future, whilst lacking access to basic services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legal<\/strong>, with border asylum procedures taking place, on many occasions, without the minimum procedural safeguards for effective access to asylum, while thousands of people are deprived of their liberty and detention remains a widespread practice in migration management.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Political<\/strong>, with EU governments continuing to present the EU-Turkey Deal as a success, without admitting that refugees and asylum seekers are forced to live under deplorable conditions on the islands, often leading to tensions between the refugee population and local communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the past two years, our organizations have been repeatedly stating that the EU-Turkey Deal is undermining human rights and Europe\u2019s very fundamental principles. We insist that the only way to properly receive displaced people is by adhering to our common European values and complying with our international protection obligations, i.e. respect the principle of <em>non-refoulement<\/em>, provide dignified reception and accommodation to asylum seekers, and ensure the right of everyone to seek asylum without discrimination. In practice, however, the EU asylum and migration policy is governed by a logic of deterrence and border securitization, at the expense of human rights protection and humanitarian values.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the occasion of the EU-Turkey Deal\u2019s second anniversary, we invite you at the <u>Press Conference we are holding on 20 March 2018,<\/u> in Athens. The event will be conducted in Greek, with simultaneous translation in English.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><u>Interventions will be made by<\/u><\/em><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International,\u00a0Gabriel Sakellaridis, Director<\/p>\n<p>Greek Council for Refugees, Vasileios Papadopoulos, Legal Unit Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>SolidarityNow, Jenny Kavounidis, Board of Directors<\/p>\n<p>Greek Forum of Refugees, Yonous\u00a0Muhammadi, President &amp; Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Melissa Network, Yasaman Heidarpour, Cultural Mediator for Farsi speakers<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch, Eva Coss\u00e9, Researcher for Greece<\/p>\n<p>KEELPNO, Agis Terzidis, Pediatrician, Board Member<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Moderator of the Press Conference:<\/u><\/strong> Ioannis Papadopoulos, journalist<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Press Conference will be held at <u>12:30, at ESIEA (Journalists\u2019 Union of Athens Daily Newspapers) \u2013 20, Akadimias str. (1<sup>st<\/sup> floor), Athens<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u><br \/>\n<\/u><strong><em>The Press Conference is organized by:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SolidarityNow<br \/>\nAmnesty International<br \/>\nGreek Council for Refugees<br \/>\nGreek Forum of Refugees<br \/>\nMelissa Network<br \/>\nCEAR<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens, 16 March 2018. Two years following the implementation of the EU-Turkey Deal, many refugees and asylum seekers continue to be trapped in the Greek islands, deprived of their basic human rights and access to international protection. On this second anniversary, and whilst legal appeals against the geographical limitation of asylum-seekers to the islands are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-events","category-advocacy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","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=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5056,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/5056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidaritynow.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}