{"id":3506,"date":"2017-05-30T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/?p=3506\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:09:10","slug":"human-rights-watch-elder-refugees-marooned-in-greece-reunification-with-families-remains-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/human-rights-watch-elder-refugees-marooned-in-greece-reunification-with-families-remains-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ELDER REFUGEES MAROONED IN GREECE &#8211;  Reunification with families remains difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elderly refugees who want to reunite with their families remain marooned in Greece, as &#8220;unnecessary delays&#8221; do not allow them to reunite their family members in the European Union, as stated in a recent report by the Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>Family reunification often focuses on minors and their parents, but hundreds of older people are waiting to see if they will be allowed to reunite with adult family members in another European country. Indeed, many testimonies of over 60-year-old people are reporting that they are not allowed to travel to the country where their grandchildren are.<\/p>\n<p>Although EU legislation provides for family reunification for older people, &#8220;the lack of clarity or explicit provisions on the process mean that these people can remain in uncertainty, away from their families for long periods of time,&#8221; notes the organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elderly refugees who want to reunite with their families remain marooned in Greece, as &#8220;unnecessary delays&#8221; do not allow them to reunite their family members in the European Union, as stated in a recent report by the Human Rights Watch. Family reunification often focuses on minors and their parents, but hundreds of older people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cyprusaware.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}