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The economic crisis has led the majority of refugees to
unemployment, poverty, racist discrimination and social exclusion. In their
majority, they live in abject destitution and no longer have access to the
necessary resources for housing and food.
Exactly due to the despair in which they have been driven to, as
well as their reaction to a policy that aims to enforce them to leave Cyprus,
the refugees’ communities have been mobilized since late September 2013 to mid
January 2014 demanding equal treatment and equal rights for all people, without
any discrimination and exclusion, and most importantly their right to
naturalization (the right to receive the Cypriot citizenship). In early June
2014, they set up a new protest camp demanding resettlement from Cyprus.
