Although three of the 10 reception centers are reserved for unaccompanied children,306 Human Rights Watch met unaccompanied children, among others, who were living in the streets, parks, and in abandoned buildings because of a lack of accommodations and other social services.307 A 15-year-old Nigerian boy registered with the police, but at the time Human Rights Watch interviewed him was living on the street with no assistance whatsoever: I still don’t have a place for me to live. The lawyers gave me an appointment to have a place to live. Now I sleep out on the streets. I don’t live anywhere. I have cold in my body. I don’t feel safe. I walk around until after 1 or 2 am and then I find a park to sleep in.308 The Norwegian Organization for Asylum Seekers (NOAS), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and Greek Helsinki Monitor reported jointly in April 2008 on accommodations and social conditions awaiting Dublin II returnees to Greece, finding the number of actual places available to such destitute asylum seekers to be “negligible” 309 and the conditions of the few accommodation centers “deplorable.”310 They observed, “The large majority of asylum seekers remain completely without social assistance with regard to accommodation and/or other forms of social assistance. Greece is in practice a country where asylum seekers and refugees are almost entirely left to their own devices.”311 306 Ibid. 307 See Human Rights Watch, Left to Survive, Protection Breakdown for Unaccompanied Children in Greece, December 2008. 308 Human Rights Watch interview (name withheld, B-25), Athens, May 29, 2008. 309 NOAS, A Gamble, p. 32. 310 Ibid., p. 33. 311 Ibid. 113 Human Rights Watch November 2008

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