{"id":15984,"date":"2023-06-15T13:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:14:03","slug":"forced-food-insecurity-at-the-lesvos-closed-controlled-access-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/forced-food-insecurity-at-the-lesvos-closed-controlled-access-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"HUNDREDS DENIED FOOD ON LESVOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15984\" class=\"elementor elementor-15984\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71bbfc9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"71bbfc9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-422d852 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"422d852\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">HUNDREDS DENIED FOOD ON LESVOS<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0738815 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0738815\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d99c289 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d99c289\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Human dignity, and access to food and water, irrespective of legal status, are fundamental human rights. Yet, for nearly a month now, over 300 people residing in Lesvos CCAC on Lesvos have been denied access to food and water by Greek authorities.<\/p><p>Recognised refugees and rejected asylum seekers are denied food and water by Greek Authorities. Yet, Government policy prevents recognised refugees from providing for their own existence, and many asylum seekers\u2019 rejections are based on Greece&#8217;s baseless classification of T\u00fcrkiye as a safe third country.<\/p><p>No exemptions to the denial of food and water have been communicated for people with vulnerabilities, including pregnant or lactating women, people with disabilities and elderly people. This exacerbates vulnerabilities, while depriving people of the lifeline they depended upon.<\/p><p>Refugee Support Aegean (RSA), together with 41 organisations, calls on Greek Authorities and the European Commission to act upon their obligations to ensure human dignity and access to food and water.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ed5678 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ed5678\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9a40515\" data-id=\"9a40515\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5121bb0 elementor-align-center elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"5121bb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-md\" href=\"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/15_06-Forced-food-insecurity-on-Lesvos.pdf\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Read our full open letter here<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41 organisations call to ensure human dignity and access to food and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,250,6,5,137],"tags":[294,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-15984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detention-and-reception-conditions","8":"category-hotspots","9":"category-press-releases","10":"category-publications","11":"category-topics","12":"tag-2023-2","13":"tag-featured"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16002,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/16002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}