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Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki

Feb 291 min read

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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Greek government carries out highest ever number of illegal pushbacks

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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Labour in the UK: chasing the votes of racists, and risking an election to do so

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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Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August

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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EU must use power to protect rights activists

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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EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives

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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'New' government, same abuse of the legal system

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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Seven days from the Pylos catastrophe: lies, persecution and protest

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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Mitsotakis: shifting blame and attacking those who have human feeling

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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Greece, Italy, ‘Eastern Libya’ and the EU: killers of 650 people

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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Fatmata. A woman not killed ‘by accident’

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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Mitsotakis, the media and the pushback lie

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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SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality

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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The EU must stop funding states which break international law

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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Tunisia and the human race: the time to respond

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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Δεν μπορώ να δεχτώ τη μετατροπή της αλληλεγγύης σε αδίκημα

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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UN SR: ‘It shouldn’t be a crime to help people. In Greece, it's made to seem like it is.'

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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The situation on Greece’s borders is far worse than even critical reports suggest

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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