🚨 Join us for the Sciences Po Refugee Help's (SPRH) first conference of spring semester: “Voices of the Invisible: Testimonies of Human Rights Abuses in Northern Greece.” 🇬🇷

While a great deal of awareness has been raised on the humanitarian crises on the Greek islands, the crisis on the mainland is often overlooked. Here the combination of often remote camps and ad-hoc/informal settlements in urban areas creates a complex environment where human rights abuses have too often gone unnoticed. Many people are left without access to legal aid and basic needs such as food, accommodation, and hygiene.

2021 was the first year in which more people entered Greece via the mainland than the sea. But it was also a year marked by stricter and stricter policies, thousands of people were denied access to legal aid, education, the most basic needs like food and accommodation. Since November, asylum seekers were barred from the asylum procedure in its entirety.  

This online event, including a panel of refugees, artists, and humanitarian workers, aims to shed light on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in northern Greece and amplify the voices of those who experience and witness the crisis every day.

🗣 Guest Speakers:

- Refugee students of the Quick Response Team Photography School at Diavata Refugee Camp
- Mattia BIDOLI, Photographer Founder of the Photography School
- Efstathia LAINA, Lawyer under the Thessaloniki Bar Association working with Equal Legal Aid
- Alexandra ZOSSO, President and Director of Operations at Northern Lights Aid

🗓 Day: February 14th, 2022
🕛 Time: 15:00 to 16:30 Paris Time (16:00-17:30 Greece time)
📍Location: Zoom (you will receive the link to join the webinar session once you have registered, closer to the date)
If you are on campus in Paris at that time, please note that we will make available a room for you to watch the online conference from. Kindly bring your own device to join the Zoom webinar from. The exact location will be communicated to you soon.

Follow us on Instagram to help us raise awareness about the situation of those forced to leave everything behind (@sprefugeehelp).

See you on Zoom!

The SPRH Research and Awareness Team