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
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