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In a televised address on Tuesday morning, prime minister Narendra Modi announced that India’s nationwide lockdown is to be extended till 3 May.
The lockdown in India, imposed on its population of 1.3bn people, is the largest of its kind anywhere in the world and has been the cause of enormous amounts of human suffering since it was first introduced at midnight on 24 March.
India’s millions of migrant workers, and the 300 million people who fall below the poverty line and live a hand-to-mouth existence, have struggled without being able to work and travel and it has led to many finding themselves without food.
Human Rights Watch is today launching a campaign demanding that the Greek government free unaccompanied migrant children “from police cells and detention centres” because of the heightened risk of exposure to coronavirus.
The campaign, running under the hashtag #FreetheKids, urges people to call on Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to release the minors and transfer them to safe, child-friendly facilities.
1 The campaign to #FreeTheKids, which starts today, urges people to press #Greece’s Prime Minister Mitsotakis to immediately release unaccompanied migrant children who are in detention, and to transfer them to safe, child-friendly facilities. https://t.co/D0xSRDS82I pic.twitter.com/c5nmqbhCc0
Greece: Free Unaccompanied Migrant Children https://t.co/chnePLsN0V
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