Francesca Pierigh is the media and communications assistant at the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE). Prior to that, she worked with Kiron Open Higher Education, Front Line Defenders and UNHCR. Francesca holds a LL.M. in International Human Rights Law. She’s on Twitter at @frpierigh. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/francesca-pierigh/rss en Refugee Voices Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:14:00 +0000 Francesca Pierigh https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/22/a-different-olympic-story https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/22/a-different-olympic-story Several thousand migrants and refugees are living in disused Olympic facilities in Athens. Representatives from ECRE and AIRE Centre visited in June and found strangely arbitrary differences in how parts of the camp are treated. Refugee Voices Fri, 12 Aug 2016 05:28:00 +0000 Francesca Pierigh https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/12/the-long-wait-at-piraeus-port https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/12/the-long-wait-at-piraeus-port A joint delegation of representatives from the ECRE and AIRE Centre went on a fact-finding mission to Greece in June 2016, visiting the port in Piraeus, which had become an unlikely temporary home for several thousand migrants and refugees.