Elena Janniki is one of ICMC’s Associate Asylum Experts currently working at the Regional Asylum Office in Rhodes, Greece. As part of her daily activities, Elena is in charge of making sure that the reception of asylum seekers and their status determination is carried out according to the appropriate procedures and law requirements.
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Largely unnoticed by the mainstream media, an innovative private-public initiative involving faith-based communities and government is facilitating refugees enter Europe since 2015. The year 2015 saw an unprecedented number of refugees arriving in Europe. More than one million people were risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea with thousands perishing in perilous journeys at the hands of people smugglers.
Whilst several Western countries have been reluctant to increase their refugee intake beyond urgently needed levels, migrants and refugees continue to arrive on Greece’s shores, placing a major strain on the country’s reception facilities. Anastasia Daviou, from Athens, serves as an ICMC Associate Protection Expert in Kos island, with UNHCR Greece.
Throughout 2016, ICMC offered health assistance to 24,000 displaced people in war-torn Syria, supported 9,570 refugees in their resettlement process to the United States, and coordinated the advocacy activities of civil society organizations all around the globe. These are just some of the many achievements presented in ICMC’s latest annual report, published today and already available for download on the website.
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“Be not afraid” were the words with which St. John Paul II greeted the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square on the night that he was chosen as Pope. Today, those words seem more important than ever, as our world confronts, with much fear and dread, the destruction of life and homes during wars, conflicts, and random acts of terrorism.
