ATHENS: A Greek NGO lambasted the government on Friday over its plans to change how unaccompanied children seeking asylum are housed when they arrive in the country, calling it a “significant setback”.
The draft law would allow such minors to be kept in migrant detention camps. But the Greek Council for Refugees and Migrants (GCR) said the European Court of Human Rights had called such accommodation “unsuitable”.
The GCR said the proposals were “an exception to the protection framework for unaccompanied minors” as they would abolish the principle that unaccompanied minors must stay in appropriate reception facilities under child protection supervision.
