Tag: Idomeni
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European Borders update 15.4.2016. Greece starts rejecting people as Turkey labeled ‘safe third country’
TURKEY: Up to 30.000 refugees started heading to Turkey during the last 48 hours, Spiegel Online reports based on the information provided by the volunteers. This follows several attacks by IS at refugee camps in Northern Syria. However, Turkey refuses to let them to cross the border. As already known, Turkey is building a 911km…
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Idomeni Petition: Stop killing us slowly with Skype asylum applications
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION This is a petition made by the people in Idomeni camp. They are forced by Greece government to apply for asylum through a skype call. They have to call a skype number, which is never available. they write: n Idomeni camp, living in tents in the mud, rain and sun…
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Actions in Idomeni
The actions in Idomeni continued to happen since one month after closing the borders from the European side. The migrants in Idomeni (on the Macedonian border ) who are coming mostly from Syria,Iraq, and Afghanistan are demonstrating since then, the main demands of the people were to open the border after it was closed by…
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European borders update, 11.3.2016
By Are you Syrious?, 11.3.2016 #LEBANON: At the present, the long term international volunteers in Lebanon are coordinating centrally around a Lebanese NGO called Salam LADC (Lebanese Association for Development and Communication). Salam has strong ties with the local authorities responsible for refugees, the UNHCR, the Lebanese Military (essential permissions for visiting and distributing at…
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Smashing the fence at the Greek-Macedonian border!
Videos of the freedom struggle for open borders followed by strong repression near Idomeni, 29.2.2016. ”The build-up at Idomeni camp, which can accommodate up to 1,500 people but is currently sheltering more than 6,000, began last week after Macedonia began refusing entry to Afghans and imposed stricter controls on Syrians and Iraqis. EU members Slovenia…
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European bordezones update
Important: #WeatherAegean: United Rescue issues an IMPORTANT warning for the Aegean Sea: A huge storm is expected Saturday the 16th of January and Sunday the 17th of January which will be a thunderstorm on some of the islands accompanied by high waves. Also, snow is expected to fall on some of the islands in the…
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Solidaritat öffnet die Grenzen – Call for support für Idomeni!
Unterstützungs-Aufruf / Call for support: „NoBorder-Train-Kitchen Idomeni” 3. Dezember 2015 Infotelephon: 0030 – 69466-50046 Liebe Freund_innen und Genoss_innen, es ist mittlerweile gut 4 Wochen her, seit wir uns an Euch mit der Bitte um Eure Unterstützung gewendet hatten. Ursprünglich um nach Slovenien zu fahren – um dort gespendetes Material (Zelte,Decken,Schlafsäcke etc ) an geflüchtete Menschen…
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Eviction attempts at the Idomeni have begun!
After more than 3 weeks of refusing to move from the Idomeni border (Greek-Macedonian), the police force has started to forcibly evict the protesters forcibly sending them to Greek cities such as Athens and Thessaloniki (source: http://livetickereidomeni.bordermonitoring.eu/2015/12/09/9-12-2015/). As a reminder, these are mostly the people who do not come from Syria, Irak and Afganistan and…
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The sealing off of the ‘Balkan borders’
The EU has finally struck a deal with the Turkish government at 29.10.2015 in which 3 bilion Euros per yer, visa liberalizations and unfrozen EU membership negotiations, negotiations that the EU froze with Turkey in 2005 under pretense of R. Erdoğans government style as authoritative, will be exchanged for the Turkish role as an external…