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A cemetery in Lesbos

for refugees and migrants who died trying to cross from Turkey.

Photograph: Mauricio Lima

for The New York Times

They Came to Help Migrants. Now, Europe Has Turned on Them.

As the legal ordeal of two aid workers shows,

anti-migrant attitudes in Greece and across Europe have hardened —

to the point that the helpers have become political targets.

NYT

March 2, 2022    Updated 2:47 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
magazine/greece-migration-ngos.html

Moria, one of the holding facilities on Lesbos,

is notoriously overpopulated, making isolation impossible.

Photograph: Manolis Lagoutaris

AFP

'Coronavirus doesn't respect barbed wire':

concern mounts for Greek camps

Calls grow for EU countries to accept refugees as outbreaks

fuel fears that virus could rampage through overcrowded facilities

G

Tue 7 Apr 2020    07.00 BST

Last modified on Tue 7 Apr 2020    08.29 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/07/
coronavirus-doesnt-respect-barbed-wire-concern-mounts-for-greek-camps

Shipwrecked immigrants hold their children

after disembarking from a rescue vessel in the port of Lesbos, Greece.

Record numbers of migrants are dying in the Mediterranean this year

amid the largest wave of mass-migration since the second world war

Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis

AFP/Getty

The 20 photographs of the week

G

Saturday 18 April 2015    11.23 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/18/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week#img-1 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/18/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week
 

Lesbos, Greece        FR / UK / USA

2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/
lesbos-boat-capsizes-greece-migrants-kythira

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/08/
two-years-after-the-fire-moria-refugee-camps-legacy-still-leaves-its-mark

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/mathilde-weibel/blog/090322/
sept-corps-sans-vie-retrouves-sur-une-plage-mytilene

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/
magazine/greece-migration-ngos.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2022/feb/04/
incredible-images-budapest-foto-awards-2021-in-pictures

2020

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/19/
refugees-on-lesbos-face-winter-in-makeshift-camp-after-september-fires

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/15/
after-fire-greece-vows-to-empty-lesbos-of-all-refugees-by-easter

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/14/
refugees-demand-rescue-from-lesbos-after-moria-camp-blaze

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/12/
greek-riot-police-fire-teargas-at-refugees-campaigning-to-leave-lesbos

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/11/
local-anger-as-greece-tries-to-shelter-refugees-after-lesbos-fire

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/
lesbos-refugee-camp-fire-forces-thousands-to-evacuate

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jul/31/
greece-refugee-healthcare-crisis-island-camps-lesbos-moria-coronavirus

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/27/
greece-ready-to-welcome-tourists-as-refugees-stay-locked-down-in-lesbos-coronavirus

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/27/
greece-ready-to-welcome-tourists-as-refugees-stay-locked-down-in-lesbos-coronavirus

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/
opinion/container-greece-migrants.html

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/07/
coronavirus-doesnt-respect-barbed-wire-concern-mounts-for-greek-camps

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/290320/
les-petits-morts-de-lesbos

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/
lesbos-fears-repeat-of-2015-as-refugees-target-greek-island

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/
librarian-moria-tales-hope-refugee-camp

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/feb/11/
life-on-lesbos-whats-happening-to-the-refugees-there-podcast

2019

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jul/16/
europe-barriers-in-pictures-walls-of-power-rencontres-d-arles

2018

https://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2018/10/24/
refugies-a-lesbos-ce-qui-se-passe-a-moria-est-un-crime-contre-l-humanite
_5373595_3214.html

https://www.lemonde.fr/grands-formats/visuel/2018/03/13/
en-grece-dans-l-enfer-du-camp-de-refugies-de-moria-en-bd
_5270283_4497053.html#

2017

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/
this-isnt-europe-life-greece-worst-refugee-camps

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/03/
giles-duley-photographs-syrian-refugees-lesbos

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jun/03/
giles-duley-photographs-of-refugees-journeys-in-pictures

2016

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/
474522382/pope-francis-meets-migrants-in-lesbos-returns-to-rome-with-12-on-his-plane

http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/apr/16/
pope-francis-europe-visits-lesbos-in-pictures

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/16/
474484258/do-not-lose-hope-pope-france-visits-migrants-in-greeces-lesbos

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/15/
474240695/for-these-greek-grandmas-helping-migrants-brings-back-their-own-past

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/04/15/
474240695/for-these-greek-grandmas-helping-migrants-brings-back-their-own-past

Lesbos > makeshift facility        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/19/
refugees-on-lesbos-face-winter-in-makeshift-camp-
after-september-fires

Gavdos        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/14/
greek-island-gavdos-vessel-capsizes-people-dead-and-missing

Greece > camps        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/
migrant-children-in-greek-island-camps-to-be-relocated-across-eu

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/07/
coronavirus-doesnt-respect-barbed-wire-concern-mounts-for-greek-camps

Chios, Greece        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/may/07/
a-scene-out-of-the-middle-ages-dead-refugee-found-surrounded-by-rats-at-greek-camp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/
fire-wrecks-greek-migrant-camp-after-iraqi-death-sparks-unrest

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/17/
syria-refugee-children-abandoned-forgotten-chios-greece-beatings-rape-knife-attacks

Vial refugee camp on Chios island        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/
fire-wrecks-greek-migrant-camp-after-iraqi-death-sparks-unrest

Gavdos, Greece        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/
how-people-smugglers-set-sights-on-tiny-greek-island-gavdos

Leros, Greece        UK

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=mpxz8Pf2VNE - G - 18 August 2015

Moria Camp in Greece        UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/
911369586/fires-leave-thousands-of-asylum-seekers-on-greek-island-homeless

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/
lesbos-refugee-camp-fire-forces-thousands-to-evacuate

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=a6WbEokupKM - NPR - 7 March 2018

Kos, Greece        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/11/
refugee-crisis-kos-europe

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