End the asylum crisis on Greek islands - act now

Join us and help end the asylum crisis on Greek Islands Having trouble viewing this email? Click here. End The Asylum Crisis on Greek Islands Take Action Dear friends, Winter is nearly here, and more than 15,500 asylum seekers are trapped on Greece’s islands in worsening weather conditions. European Union-sponsored processing centres housing them are filthy and overcrowded - many people, including women and children, are forced to sleep in summer tents or on the ground. This is happening because Greece, with the support of other EU countries, has put in place a containment policy to prevent asylum seekers from leaving the islands to the mainland. But they can change this. We, in partnership with 12 other organizations, are calling on the Greek government to ensure that by December 21, the start of winter, no one sleeps in these arduous conditions. It is high time they ended this inhumane containment and open the islands. TAKE ACTION Thanks for your support! Eva Cossé Western Europe researcher Human Rights Watch @Eva_Cosse Take Action In order to maintain our independence, we accept no money from any government. We rely solely on the generosity of people like you to defend human rights. SUPPORT US A migrant walks after receiving food during snowfall at the Moria hotspot on the Greek island of Lesbos, on January 9, 2017. With more than 60,000 mainly Syrian refugees on its territory, Greece has moved many migrants to prefabricated houses and heated tents, but on the island of Lesbos in Moria hotspot there are 'more than 2,500 people living in tents, without hot water or heating, including women, children and handicapped people,' said Apostolos Veizis from the charity Doctors Without Borders. (c) STR/AFP/Getty Images DONATE TAKE ACTION VISIT HRW.ORG Human Rights Watch | 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor | New York, NY 10118 USA Tel: 1 (212) 290-4700 | news@hrw.org