Rejected petition debate on allowing refugee children in Greece to be united with UK family

Join the efforts being made by European countries to offer asylum to refugee children and vulnerable adults who are trapped in squalid camps in Greece

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Covid-19 is raging through over-crowded refugee camps throughout the Greek Islands which, at the best of times, have lamentable facilities.

Together with other European countries, the Home Secretary has been asked to facilitate the evacuation of child and vulnerable adult refugees, many of whom have already been accepted to join family in UK.

Covid-19 is a global pandemic and requires a global, humanitarian response that functions outside of migration quotas and ideologies

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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313577

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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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Date submitted 13 April 2020
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