Afghanistan, Europe, Global development, Greece, Migration and development, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, World news
Afghans left in legal limbo in Greece while ‘real refugees’ helped to settle
International Rescue Committee points to unequal treatment, saying welcome for Ukrainians proves integration and support is possible for all
It is 3.30pm and Suna Hamanawa, 25, is doing what she and dozens of other Afghan mothers do most days: whiling her time away on a park bench in Viktoria Square, a scruffy plaza in central Athens, as her children play around her. Like almost every other asylum seeker, she is relieved to be in Greece.
“We’re better here, we’re safer here even though me and my husband and our first little one [initially] spent 10 months in Moria,” she says, screwing up her face at the memory of the notoriously overcrowded and fire-ravaged refugee camp on Lesbos.
＼ 最新情報をチェック ／
