of gender-based toilets and showers. Coupled with the aforementioned lack of the facility’s adequate supervision, women were (and are) at an ever present risk of falling victims of SGBV, with such incidents reportedly being on the rise.105 . Documented cases of SGBV In 2017, GCR undertook the case of two women who had fallen victims of such violence, while accommodated at the Moria RIC, in Lesvos. Both were in their early twenties, and previously residing in Moria for an unspecified amount of time. They had fallen victims of group rape, as inter alia attested by the medical documents they had been provided with, following their examination by a doctor. Their physical well-being had suffered unrecoverable damage, with their mental state being in such a devastated and traumatized condition, that it had become highly difficult for them to remain in the same space alongside persons of the opposite gender. RIC of Kos: improved but still inadequate Between the 10th and 12th of January 2018 we visited the RIC of Kos, at Pyli. The first thing noted was that, comparatively to the rest of the islands, the situation in Kos was distinctly more manageable, with the RIC, whose capacity stands at 772 places, accommodating some 670 residents on those days.106 Amongst, them, 24 were unaccompanied minors and the rest primarily Syrian and Iraqi families.107Accordingly, overpopulation was not a problem, with asylum seekers being accommodated in prefabricated housing units (containers), instead of tents. In itself, this marked a clear improvement, when compared to the prevalent situation up to the summer of 2017. Namely, the RIC of Kos, was the last one to start its operations on the Greek islands in June 2016 –not least due to consistent local protests, on the basis that its creation would ruin tourism.108 As a result and up to that point, newcomers would at first be mainly “accommodated” in police detention cells and/or UNHCR apartments. Following the RIC’s operationalization in June, furthermore, and though asylum seekers started gradually being transferred to the RIC, some, as already mentioned, remained in detention, while a large number of others were, due to the RIC’s inadequate capacity, forced to remain under unacceptable conditions, outside its premises. Indicatively, between September 2016 and March 2017, and due to the RIC’ inability to house the totality of asylum seekers found on the island,109 some hundreds (200-300, and at times even more) were left outside the RIC, in the so-called “Annex;” a makeshift 34