Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System

Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System

Ritsona, Greece — Since 2022, the German collective Rosa Rolling Safespace has been providing a mobile safe space for women living in refugee camps around Athens. Their work shows that gender-based violence in these settings is not incidental but structural, a direct product of European and Greek migration policies. Ritsona is a small town about 47 miles north of Athens. Driving through the surrounding countryside, it is hard to miss a sprawling…