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Following a deal reached between the European Union and Turkey in March 2016, Turkey has been taking measures to prevent migrants – many of them fleeing the conflict in Syria – from reaching the EU, in exchange for European aid for migrants and refugees, and for relaxation of EU visa requirements for Turkish citizens. On Friday 28 February, after military losses in north-west Syria – where Turkey has been trying to create a safe area to resettle millions of Syrian refugees and to serve Turkish interests against the Kurds – those measures were suspended, resulting in large numbers of people attempting to cross into Greece and consequent clashes with Greek security forces.

“Los migrantes no son misiles, son personas”, dice el secretario general del CMI en respuesta a la crisis en la frontera grecoturca
Tras el acuerdo alcanzado entre la Unión Europea y Turquía en marzo de 2016, Turquía ha estado tomando medidas para evitar que los migrantes –muchos de los cuales huyen del conflicto en Siria– lleguen a la Unión Europea, a cambio de ayudas europeas para los migrantes y los refugiados, y una relajación de los requisitos para la obtención de visados de la Unión Europea para los ciudadanos turcos. El viernes 28 de febrero, después de bajas militares en el noroeste de Siria, donde Turquía ha estado intentando crear una zona segura para reasentar a millones de refugiados sirios y servir a los intereses turcos contra los kurdos, esas medidas fueron suspendidas, lo que resultó en que un gran número de personas intentaran cruzar a Grecia y se produjeran los consiguientes enfrentamientos con las fuerzas de seguridad griegas.

Virag Kinga Mezei is a Hungarian intern for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs. With a passion for human rights, she regularly engages in discussions while also getting training through the WCC on mechanisms that lead to the achievement of racial and social justice.

An “Interfaith Symposium on Statelessness” held 7-8 December in Rome focused, for the first time in history, on joint actions from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Christian and Jewish groups to address statelessness.

A regional conference held 5-6 September in Berlin allowed participants to look at statelessness in the European context through the lenses of human rights and development.

The conference, with the theme “Statelessness in the European Context: Prevention, Reduction and Protection,” approached statelessness as an issue that is often invisible even though it occurs in so many countries around the world.

The experience of his father’s fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938 and then living alien and stateless in Sweden provides biblical theologian Hans Ucko with the touchstone of his writing about stateless persons.

The average person in Europe may be having more difficulty coming to terms with the reality of migrants and refugees than ever before, said Maria Mountraki, given how close to home — literally — the influx of people has become.

Along with other faith-based groups, the WCC has helped develop a declaration, launched by the United Nations refugee agency. It aims to strengthen protection for the world’s refugees as well as internally displaced and stateless people, who account for more than 40 million people in the world.

Junto con otras comunidades basadas en la fe, el CMI ha participado en la elaboración de una declaración iniciada por la Agencia de la ONU para los Refugiados que tiene como objetivo incrementar la protección para los más de 40 millones de refugiados, desplazados internos y apátridas que hay en el mundo.