Refugees in Athens, including young children and babies, are left
without any shelter. Many of them sleep in the streets and squares of
the Greek capital, while some have raised tents but without any access
to basic personal hygiene conditions.
Refugee families, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, stay in a makeshift camp
in a public park of Athens. Authorities threat with eviction. Forced to
become refugees fleeing war and poverty, to be treated as criminals.
Athens, Greece, 19 July 2015.
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet. A giant poster on a building with a blue and white Greek Flag reads: "Welcome to Greece" |
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet. A giant poster on a building with a blue and white Greek Flag reads: "Welcome to Greece" |
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet. A giant poster on a building with a blue and white Greek Flag reads: "Welcome to Greece" |
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet. A giant poster on a building with a blue and white Greek Flag reads: "Welcome to Greece" |
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet. A giant poster on a building with a blue and white Greek Flag reads: "Welcome to Greece" |
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet. A giant poster on a building with a blue and white Greek Flag reads: "Welcome to Greece" |
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| Syrian refugees, mainly women and young people, have spent the night
sleeping outside at the Omonia square in the center of the Greek
capital. Some of them have raised tents. There is no access to basic
personal hygiene conditions as toilet. |
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| Refugees from Afghanistan have raised tents and sleep in Victoria Square
of central Athens. There is no access to basic personal hygiene
conditions as toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Refugees from Afghanistan have raised tents and sleep in Victoria Square
of central Athens. There is no access to basic personal hygiene
conditions as toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Refugees from Afghanistan have raised tents and sleep in Victoria Square
of central Athens. There is no access to basic personal hygiene
conditions as toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Refugees from Afghanistan have raised tents and sleep in Victoria Square
of central Athens. There is no access to basic personal hygiene
conditions as toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Refugees from Afghanistan, including young children and babies, have
spent the night in Victoria Square of central Athens. There is no access
to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet, or bathroom.
|
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| Refugees from Afghanistan, including young children and babies, have
spent the night in Victoria Square of central Athens. There is no access
to basic personal hygiene conditions as toilet, or bathroom.
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Refugees
from Afghanistan, including young children, have raised tents and live
in Pedion Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without
any shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions
such as toilet, or bathroom.
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Refugees
from Afghanistan, including young children, have raised tents and live
in Pedion Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without
any shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions
such as toilet, or bathroom.
|
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Refugees
from Afghanistan, including young children, have raised tents and live
in Pedion Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without
any shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions
such as toilet, or bathroom.
|
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| Refugees including young children, have raised tents and live in Pedion
Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without any
shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions such as
toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Refugees including young children, have raised tents and live in Pedion
Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without any
shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions such as
toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Refugees including young children, have raised tents and live in Pedion
Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without any
shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions such as
toilet, or bathroom. |
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| Two refugee children get water from the public tap that they use to
drink water and get washed in Pedion Areos Park of central Athens, where
they have raised tents and live in the open city area, as they have
been left without any shelter. |
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| Refugee children get water from the public tap that they use to drink
water and get washed in Pedion Areos Park of central Athens, where they
have raised tents and live in the open city area, as they have been left
without any shelter. |
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Refugees
including young children, have raised tents and live in Pedion Areos
Park of central Athens, as they have been left without any shelter.
There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions such as toilet,
or bathroom.
|
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| Two refugee women seen standing under a statue of a Greek heroine.
Refugees including young children, have raised tents and live in Pedion
Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without any shelter |
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| Refugees from Afghanistan, including young children, have raised tents
and live in Pedion Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left
without any shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene
conditions such as toilet, or bathroom. |
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| An elderly refugee woman is seen in a tent in Pedion Areos Park of
central Athens, where refugees have raised tents and live in the open
city area, as they have been left without any shelter. |
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| Refugees including young children, have raised tents and live in Pedion
Areos Park of central Athens, as they have been left without any
shelter. There is no access to basic personal hygiene conditions such as
toilet, or bathroom. |
EDIT - addition:
Athens, Greece, 26 August 2015:
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| A Syrian refugee breastfeeding her baby at the Omonia square in the center of Athens. They have to sleep out without shelter./// According to figures released by the UN Refugee Agency, a total of 816,752 refugees arrived by sea in Greece this year (2015). 26 August 2015. |
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| Syrian refugee with her three children while breastfeeding her baby at the Omonia square in the center of Athens. They have to sleep out without shelter. 26 August 2015. |
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| A Syrian refugee sitting on the pavement is breastfeeding her baby while waiting at the Piraeus metro Station . The refugee ship arrived again in Piraeus port today in the afternoon, carrying just over 2,500 Syrians from the Greek islands, as a wave of migrants fleeing conflict and poverty continues unabated. 25 August 2015. |
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