Last update:
15-Jan-2020

The international financial crisis that began in the US in 2008 soon expanded to Europe as well. Greece, emerged as the weak link in the European Union, and experienced since the end of the decade a profound socioeconomic crisis, as a result of the austerity measures imposed on the population. In recent years, the consequences of the refugee social phenomenon that Europe experienced, have also worstened the predominant economic austerity. Amnesty International (IA), the global movement of about seven million members, activists and supporters aiming to protect human rights around the world, believes that economic austerity coupled with refugee and migrant crises affecting many parts of the world in recent years, can negatively affect the respect of human rights. IΑ, considering that on the-spot investigations are the best way to detect possible human rights abuses, as from March 2017, spoke to more than a hundred refugee women and girls living in camps and apartments in Athens and the Greek islands. The stories of these women and girls captured in the document "I Want to Decide about My Future: Uprooted Women in Greece Speak out", which was released in October 2018. Through this report, IΑ presented with emphasis to the Greek and European authorities, the "Ten General Requirements for Women and Girls" living in refugee camps in Greece which must be respected for their human rights not to be violated.

Key words: Refugees women, asylum, human rights, Greece, Amnesty International.