ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International is pushing a call to action petition requesting President, European Council Donald Tusk to accept refugees from Greece presenting a four pointer humanitarian memorandum.
Thousands of refugees are currently stranded at the Greek border at the mercy of European Council and European countries including; children, elderly, pregnant women and sick. Refugees are living in adverse conditions. While European Union leaders are in a deadlock with Turkey over refugee issue. To make the situation even worst Macedonia has sealed off its border with Greece.
An Amnesty International team visited the refugees facing adverse conditions at the northern Greek border crossing of Idomeni. Up to 13,000 people are stranded at this point alone, an Amnesty team revealed. Amnesty initiated a petition calling Tusk to take action under these four points.
- Use all available means to urgently accept asylum-seekers from Greece – including relocating a large number of persons without applying restrictive selection criteria, easing family reunification and allowing asylum-seekers to obtain visas from member states’ representations in Greece for onward legal travel;
- Support an effective relief programme to ease the pressure on Greece to respond to the humanitarian crisis;
- End discriminatory border practices and support countries along the Western Balkans route, to ensure refugees and asylum sekeers can access asylum procedures and adequate reception conditions;
- Open up more safe and legal routes for people in need of international protection to ensure refugees do not need to embark on dangerous sea crossings to reach protection in Europe.
Pregnant women and children are among the most suffered at Idomeni. “We sleep on the ground. Our blankets got wet yesterday night and it was really cold. We are only here because we were looking for safety for our children.” stated a pregnant woman.
Elderly such as the 70 year old couple Ahmed and Aliya stated that, “The Arab countries and Turkey let us down and we were hoping Europe will give us freedom. This is not the treatment we were expecting from Europe.”
Amnesty International petition can be accessed here to call upon Donald Dusk for immediate relief action.
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