The 8th of March is a day to acknowledge women’s achievements in the world, for promoting awareness & change towards women’s rights, gender equality, and against SGBV. Needless to say, just one day is not enough. Nor just one week, or just one month. But it is an occasion to raise and amplify voices.
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Applying an intersectional lens to the refugee experience shows us that, along with racism, refugees may be further marginalised by patriarchal, heteronormative and ablist systems. Although refugees may appear as a uniformly vulnerable group, it is crucial that we understand how overlapping power structures create important differences in experiences and needs, within an overall vulnerable population.
On September 15th, the first cases of COVID-19 were announced in the Vathy Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on Samos. The same night, a fire broke out, followed by another fire one week later. While the number of cases has increased everyday, there still is no medical response plan in place.
The EU and its Member States must act to put out this fire.
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