Live from Lesvos, Greece. Friday, February 21st, 2025, 11am-12pm Irish time: Frontlines of Solidarity – Migration, Human Rights, and Solidarity.
Hosted by IDEA (Irish Development Education Association) in association with Afri, Comlámh, Doras, the Irish Refugee Council, and Uplift.
Free registration but donations welcome to Caoimhe’s choice of refugee solidarity cause.
Free registration at www.tiny.cc/frontlines25
ABOUT CAOIMHE BUTTERLY
Caoimhe Butterly (educator, activist & trauma-informed psychotherapist) joins us live from Lesvos island in Greece, where she has worked for periods of the past 11 years with refugee solidarity/ support & Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) networks there. Greece is a place of both transit and in limbo, where refuge-seekers from Afghanistan, Palestine, Congo, Syria, Sudan, Eritrea, Iraq, Somalia, etc., remain in camps in which both humanitarian support & access to rights remain below the basic. With the militarisation & externalisation of EU borders & prevalent pushbacks, the narratives of those on the move are often made invisible. Caoimhe joins us to speak of some of the stories of those she has worked with, as well as the broader context.
