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Sexual and gender-based violence
This report adopts ‘sexual- and gender-based violence’ (SGBV) to refer to “harmful acts directed at an
individual based on their gender”, which “can include sexual, physical, mental and economic harm inflicted in public or in private”. Risks of SGBV, particularly for women and girls, increase during displacement. Men, including LGBTIQ men, also experience heightened risks of SGBV during displacement.
Many Equal Rights clients – both women and men – have disclosed experiences of SGBV, whether in their
countries of nationality, in Greece, or somewhere in between
Vulnerability
Under Article 1(i) of the Greek Asylum Code , transposing Article 20 Directive 2011/95/EU, ‘vulnerable
persons’ includes: minors, unaccompanied or not, immediate relatives of shipwrecked parents (parents
and siblings), persons with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women, single parent families with minor
children, victims of human trafficking, people with serious illnesses, people with mental and psychological disabilities and persons who have been tortured, raped or subject to other serious forms of psychological, physical, or sexual violence, such as victims of genital mutilation of organs.
‘Quarantine of Asylum Seeker’ – A legal classification of the quarantine practice on Chios