NGOs urge authorities to enforce child-protection measures, citing violence and alarming living conditions
Save the Children says EU and Greek authorities have a moral and legal obligation to ‘act urgently’ to alleviate the refugee crisis.Save the Children says EU and Greek authorities have a moral and legal obligation to ‘act urgently’ to alleviate the refugee crisis.Greece is facing a refugee “children’s emergency” as the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the country rises and concern grows over a lack of “safe zones” to host them.
Ten years after Greece was at the centre of a refugee crisis when nearly a million EU-bound asylum seekers crossed its borders, child arrivals have doubled in 2024, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. More than 13,000 minors arrived in the country by sea in the first 11 months of this yearLandings by unaccompanied and separated children have also risen sharply, from 1,490 in 2023 to approximately 3,000 so far this year.
As Christmas approaches, hundreds of children were reported by aid groups to be on the frontline isles of Samos, Leros and Kos without clothes or shoes and little or no access to essential services. This month, authorities were put on the defensive when it emerged that an Egyptian teenager had been gang-raped, beaten and burned by at least four people, including two adults, after an altercation over a mobile phone. The attack at the Malakasa refugee camp outside Athens prompted outrage. Officials said plans were under way to create an extra 500 places for children in sheltered environments “once financing was found”.
Last week, the council released a scathing report, co-authored with Save the Children, into the “alarming” living conditions minors continue to face in the country’s camps. “It is unacceptable that, even now, when so much money has been invested in Greece and we are no longer in crisis mode, that we should be discussing such basic issues.”
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