Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023
Our article Pushbacks, in Finland's Together magazine, highlighting the Greek government's vicious and illegal anti-refugee campaign.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 88 min read
Synelefsi and analysis
Synelefsi announces with regret it must pause operations. We also offer some advice on more effective advocacy.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 11, 20234 min read
Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks
In September this year, the Greek government illegally pushed back the highest ever number of men, women and children arriving in Greece.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 15, 202311 min read
Labour in the UK: chasing the votes of racists, and risking an election to do so
With his most recent comments on immigration, Keir Starmer has set the UK back decades, and further risks the lives of people seeking safety
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 8, 20234 min read
Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August
Although the proportion of people being illegally pushed back from Greece has fallen, the reason is not what one might expect or hope.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 9, 202315 min read
EU must use power to protect rights activists
UN human rights expert Mary Lawlor says the EU must demand Tajikistan ends attacks on human rights defenders or not upgrade trade relations.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 2, 202312 min read
EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives
The EU has agreed two of the worst 'migration initiatives' in human history. Both must be abandoned, as they will kill people seeking safety
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jul 31, 202317 min read
'New' government, same abuse of the legal system
The Greek government is attacking human rights defenders because they are the people's last line of defence of against the Greek government
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 22, 202327 min read
Seven days from the Pylos catastrophe: lies, persecution and protest
Several updates from the week following the Pylos catastrophe: the Greek government running from responsibility, the law and human decency.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 21, 20239 min read
Mitsotakis: shifting blame and attacking those who have human feeling
Kiriakos Mitsotakis has caused Greece's worst ever rail and maritime catastrophes. How many people does he want to kill before he resigns?
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 14, 202310 min read
Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people
Greece, Italy, 'Eastern Libya' and the EU are responsible for killing 650 men, women and children today. We should not pretend they are not.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 25, 20237 min read
Fatmata. A woman not killed ‘by accident’
The woman killed on Greece's border with N. Macedonia was Fatmata. She was 23. She was not killed 'by accident'. And this has to stop.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 20, 20233 min read
It is time to stop
A woman was shot dead on Wednesday for trying to find a safe place to live. It is time to stop.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 14, 202310 min read
Mitsotakis, the media and the pushback lie
Two points are important to make: all the evidence points to the fact that Greece performs pushbacks, and that Mitsotakis lies about them.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 7, 20237 min read
SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality
SYRIZA's latest comment on refugees is worse than anything Nea Dimokratia has said. If the party wishes to govern, it must find some courage
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 6, 20236 min read
The EU must stop funding states which break international law
Greece's plan to spend EU cash on illegally operating a border wall underlines the bloc's need to stop all funding to law-breaking members.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 29, 20236 min read
Tunisia and the human race: the time to respond
The ongoing catastrophe in Tunisia is being met with calls for closed borders from Europe's elite. We must stand for legality and decency.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 19, 20236 min read
Δεν μπορώ να δεχτώ τη μετατροπή της αλληλεγγύης σε αδίκημα
The Greek version of our interview with UN Speecial Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor, published in EFSYN on 18 March 2023.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 14, 202310 min read
UN SR: ‘It shouldn’t be a crime to help people. In Greece, it's made to seem like it is.'
UN Special Rapporter on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, expresses her shock and frustration with Greece in this interview with Koraki.
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Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Mar 8, 20235 min read
The situation on Greece’s borders is far worse than even critical reports suggest
Horrific though they may be, recent reports about the Greek border officers are sadly underestimates of their true depravity and barbarism.
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