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Athens is investing in new technology to monitor camps, but experts fear the moves will deepen divides.

Summary Decades of slow but steady progress in educating more children around the world abruptly ended in 2020. By April, an unprecedented 1.4 billion students were shut out of their pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools in more than 190 countries, in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. As the pandemic persisted, schools in some countries or jurisdictions reopened for in-person teaching, or opened for some students, while elsewhere schools have remained closed ever sinc...

From Letters to the World In 2019, sixteen-year-old Parwana Amiri and her family arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos. They fled Afghanistan hoping for a safe haven, but instead they encountered Fortress Europe. Constrained to live in the island’s notorious Moria refugee camp, Amiri started a journal, chronicling the experiences of people around her. This was published in 2020 as ‘Letters to the World from Moria’. Amiri, who now lives in Ritsona, a camp north of Athens – where she cont...

Greece: Desperation in Moria 2.0, End of Housing Programmes, Continued Pushbacks, and Criminalisation of Solidarity Format A suicide attempt by a pregnant woman and children with thoughts of suicide illustrates the desperation in the Moria 2.0 camp in Kara Tepe. The closure of the Filoxenia program providing temporary accommodation to asylum seekers means the eviction of up to almost 7,000 people. Continuing violent pushbacks by Greek authorities in the first months of 2021 have been met with c...

Turkey, Greece and other countries: Population Movement Operation Update n° 2 (MDR65003) Format Summary of major revisions made to emergency plan of action: This Operations Update is to report the progress of the implementation of the activities and changing needs on the ground, covering the period from 1 May 2020 - 31 December 2020. No changes in the budget or the timeframe of the operation is planned through this Operations Update. The Emergency Appeal was revised on 8 October 2020, in the a...

A cemetery in Naxos, Greece As a manufacturer of children’s stationery, holding the copyright for Disney motifs, Antonis Alkiotis never expected to specialise in matters of death. Greece, of course, has a long history of concern with the subject. In ancient times, the deceased were often cremated on the third day, when the soul was believed to begin its journey through the underworld. Yet before 2019, such practices were impossible in Greece. Cremation is virulently opposed by the Greek churc...