Mark O'Doherty

Healing the Hellenic Republic - A Study of Human Rights Violations, Humanitarian Disaster and Forced Displacement in Greece and other Countries Mark O'Doherty

In Greece, about 10,000 people have been crammed into Moria, a refugee camp built for just 3,100. Though the EU has allocated $1.9 billion to the Greek government to subsidize refugee welfare, Greece has refused to improve the facilities for fear of encouraging more migrants. Residents in Moria spend up to 12 hours a day waiting in line for food, which often runs out before everyone is served. Moria refugee camp is at breaking point; the situation is about to implode. This will happen inwardly, harming some of the most vulnerable people in the world... The refugee crisis in Greece demands that EU leaders address two of the key underlying problems in Greece and the world at large: First, the factors that drive thousands to flee their home countries; and second, the lack of effective policies to manage humanitarian migration in a humane and efficient manner. The EU with its enormous human and technical resources, has the means to deliver on both these challenges - it just needs political vision and leadership!