Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
International protection and other provisions: Greece’s new (illegal) refugee law
Context The Greek government has, as expected, passed an Act which will significantly reduce the rights of men, women and children who...
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 9, 201914 min read
The threat made by Turkey: a guide
Since the immoral and illegal EU/Turkey Deal was enacted on 20 March 2016, it seems as if we have written almost once a week about the...
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 7, 201915 min read
Turkey and Northern Syria part two: a ‘safe zone’ which will not long be either
We had intended to publish this yesterday, 7 October 2019, but as news broke of the Trump administration’s decision to ‘stand aside’ and...
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 4, 20194 min read
Fact Check: Mitsotakis ‘vast majority’ of new arrivals to Greece ‘economic migrants not refugees’
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the governing Nea Dimokratia party, told the Greek parliament on Friday 4 October...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 2, 20195 min read
A Note on AMKA and access to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece
On 12 July this year, Greece’s new Labour and Social Affairs Minister Nikos Vroutsis cancelled a memo which had been designed to inform...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jul 31, 201934 min read
Idlib, Istanbul, Turkey and the EU: Review, 30 July 2019
2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Jul 23, 201933 min read
New democracy? A guide to Greece under Nea Dimokratia
People who like to deal in political aphorisms will tell you that the first weeks a government spends in power are its most important....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Feb 22, 20197 min read
Refugee evictions to begin in Greece
HUNDREDS of men, women and children in Greece are to be removed from their homes by the end of March. Thousands more are expected to...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 10, 201810 min read
Curious November: movement and winter
More than 30,000 (30,138) people have arrived in Greece by sea since 1 January 2018: 254 more than arrived by sea in the whole of 2017....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 5, 201813 min read
Blame; or, very few stories have only one side
In brief: More than 1,000 people arrived by sea to the Aegean islands this week; Vagiochori closes (officially on 2 November, but some...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 22, 20189 min read
Numbers: the missing 17,951?
There are at least 17,951 people who were registered as refugees and/or made an application for asylum, in Greece, from 1 January-18...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Apr 28, 201819 min read
Movement and the gathering storm
Thessaloniki, 28 April Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 26 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 4,613. Total arrivals since 3...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Mar 30, 201833 min read
Open Arms? Closing borders and refusing to talk is handing Europe to the far-Right
The – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Mar 20, 201820 min read
The EU/Turkey Deal, two years on
The exact date of the anniversary of the initiation of the EU/Turkey Deal is a matter of some debate, as the document was signed on 16...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 21, 20173 min read
The problem with the EU/Turkey Deal is not its 'failure', but its absolute immorality, and i
In an actually quite dangerous article, Greek national newspaper Kathimerini this morning pretends that the EU/Turkey Deal ‘is failing’....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 17, 20175 min read
Men at refugee camps: overlooked and under-served
The following is a note about a topic on which the author of this review has written at length, on a number of different occasions, for a...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 16, 20173 min read
The system isn't working: debt, poverty and coercion forces refugees back to the unsafe places t
At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 8, 20175 min read
Hizbollah promises to leave Syria in exchange for Hariri continuing as Lebanese PM
Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s Prime Minister, has withdrawn his resignation from the role. We have noted in some detail the situation...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 7, 20173 min read
Federalism unlikely to solve South Sudan's problems
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are reportedly ‘unanimous’ in their opinion that their state should immediately adopt a federal system,...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 3, 20174 min read
US uses migration to further undermine UN
In yet another measure which signals both its withdrawal from actively participating in international agreements, and its ongoing desire...
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