Thirty-six civil society organizations, the Diotima Centre included, have sent a letter to Pope Francis regarding the refugee situation in view of his upcoming visit to Greece.
In a letter released at an online press conference on Thursday, December 2, the NGOs asked, among other things, to meet with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and inform him about the living conditions of refugees in Greece, as well as the need to support refugees quest for access to asylum with a message of solidarity towards our persecuted fellow humans.
Read the full Letter to Pope Francis.
Signatories
- A Drop in the Ocean
- Actionaid Hellas
- ARSIS – Association for the Social Support of Youth
- Βabel Day Center
- Caritas Hellas
- Centre Diotima
- Changemakers Lab
- Community Pope John XXIII
- Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
- ECHO100PLUS
- ELIX
- Equal Rights Beyond Borders
- Europe Must Act
- Fenix – Humanitarian Legal Aid
- Greek Council for Refugees (GCR)
- Greek Forum of Migrants
- Greek Forum of Refugees
- Hellenic League for Human Rights
- HIAS Greece
- Humanrights360
- INTERSOS
- INTERSOS Hellas
- Irida Women’s Center
- Jesuit Refugee Service Greece (JRS Greece)
- Lesvos Solidarity
- Médecins du Monde – Greece
- Network for Children’s Rights
- Mobile Info Team (MIT)
- Odyssea
- Refugee Legal Support
- Refugee Support Aegean (RSA)
- Samos Advocacy Collective
- Samos Volunteers
- SolidarityNow
- Still I Rise
- Symbiosis-School of Political Studies in Greece, Council of Europe
Athens, December, 2, 2021
Photo@ Dimitris Michalakis/ GCR
