Around 50,000 people arrived in Greece in July. \u00a0Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the problem “surpasses” Greece’s abilities, and that his country’s economic problems meant it was facing a humanitarian “crisis within a crisis”.<\/p>\n
Save the Children says refugee children are at risk of exploitation and disease in Greece because of the lack of facilities. \u00a0“The risk to a child forced to sleep on the street of being abused, or of a baby dying of heatstroke, is very real,” said Kitty Arie from the charity. \u00a0“This is Europe in 2015. We can’t leave these children in this desperate situation.”<\/p>\n
European Director of a UN organization said facilities for the refugees on the Greek islands were “totally inadequate”, after more migrants arrived in Greece in July 2015 than in the whole of the previous year.<\/p>\n
Greece’s EU partners must do more to ease the burden, he said, but Greece must “lead and co-ordinate.\u00a0On most of the islands there is no reception capacity, people are not sleeping under any form of roof. So it’s total chaos on the islands.\u00a0After a couple of days they are transferred to Athens, there is nothing waiting for them in Athens,” he complained.<\/p>\n
Separately, Italian police arrested five suspected traffickers over the deaths of about 200 people after a migrant boat sank on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
They included two Libyans, two Algerians and a Tunisian, held on suspicion of multiple murder and people trafficking.<\/p>\n
Survivors have said that traffickers used knives to slash the heads of African migrants and belts to thrash Arabs to keep them in the hull.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Around 50,000 people arrived in Greece in July. \u00a0Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the problem “surpasses” Greece’s abilities, and that his country’s economic problems meant it was facing a humanitarian “crisis within a crisis”. Save the Children says refugee … Continue reading ![\"Immigration](\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Immigration-Crisis.jpg\")
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