Greece: Sick Children Blocked From Care

Expand Screenshot taken from video footage of an Afghan woman with her 15-year-old daughter who has multiple disabilities on the ground outside the Moria registration camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. October 5, 2015. © 2015 Human Rights Watch (Athens) – Bureaucratic delays and obstruction by Greek authorities have left some asylum-seeking children confined to the Aegean islands without access to necessary medical care. Greece enforces a policy, backed by the EU, to keep asylum seekers on the islands until their asylum claims are adjudicated. Authorities can allow people with urgent medical…

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