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Daphne Tolis

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  • Producer, Documentary Filmmaker and Journalist, Freelance
  • Production Coordinator, BBC
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Covers:  Current affairs, crisis, migration, social, politics, elections, climate change, environment, culture, film, crime
Doesn't Cover: Football
Producer | Journalist | Documentary filmmaker • #Fixer in #Greece • VICE, ABC, PBS, BBC • 🏆 DIME Award '22 & European Press Prize '24 | @risj_oxford alum
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UN and EU call on Greece to stop prosecuting migrant rescue groups

UN and EU call on Greece to stop prosecuting migrant rescue groups

PBS NewsHour — The human rights arms of the United Nations and the European Union have called on Greece to stop criminalizing pro-refugee non-profit groups. Both the U.N. and E.U. say targeting humanitarian groups with prosecutions is having a chilling effect on the efforts to save asylum seekers at sea. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports.
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Thousands flee fires amid Greece's worst heat wave in decades

Thousands flee fires amid Greece's worst heat wave in decades

ABC News — ATHENS -- Firefighters are working to extinguish dozens of fires across Greece, where over 100 wildfires have started in the past day. In the town of Evia, 90 miles from Athens, the Greek coast guard and private-owned boats are evacuating people from the beach where residents and tourists fled the flames.
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Greeks split over pathway, elevator construction for disabled Parthenon visitors

Greeks split over pathway, elevator construction for disabled Parthenon visitors

PBS NewsHour — The United Nations world heritage body, UNESCO, wants Greece to stop installing concrete paths around the iconic Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens. Much of the work has been completed, intended to make it more accessible for tourists, especially the wheelchair bound. But critics call it criminal.
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American scientist Suzanne Eaton died of asphyxiation in Greece, authorities say

American scientist Suzanne Eaton died of asphyxiation in Greece, authorities say

ABC News — An American scientist whose body was found in an abandoned World War II bunker in Greece died from asphyxiation, according to local authorities. Molecular biologist Suzanne Eaton, 59, was visiting the Greek island of Crete for a conference when she vanished on July 2.
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'Pushing back' asylum seekers at sea

'Pushing back' asylum seekers at sea

BBC — A row has broken out between the Greek government and the EU over the country's treatment of migrants trying to reach Europe from Turkey. The country's migration and asylum minister, Notis Mitarachi, has rejected claims by a senior EU official that Greece is breaching European fundamental rights, and says the reports of illegal deportation of people trying to reach Greece from Turkey were "unfounded".
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The migrants buried without a name

The migrants buried without a name

BBC — More than 1,250 unnamed men, women and children who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to seek a new life in Europe have been buried in unmarked graves in over 70 sites in Turkey, Greece and Italy since 2014, a BBC investigation has found.
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Migrants left adrift at sea after boat pushback from Greek coast guard

Migrants left adrift at sea after boat pushback from Greek coast guard

PBS NewsHour — Pro-refugee groups allege the Greek coast guard is endangering migrants in the Aegean Sea and breaching international law with a new aggressive migration policy that involves pushing them back towards Turkish waters. Critics also accuse the European Union of ignoring Greece's behavior, six years into the migration crisis.
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Greece clashes with Turkey after latest migrant shipwrecks | The World

Greece clashes with Turkey after latest migrant shipwrecks | The World

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2 Large Fires Destroy Homes And Businesses On The Greek Island Of Evia

2 Large Fires Destroy Homes And Businesses On The Greek Island Of Evia

NPR — NPR's Noel Kings speaks with Athens-based freelance journalist Daphne Tolis about the wildfires on the island of Evia. More than 2,000 residents have been evacuated. NOEL KING, HOST: Two big fires burning on the Greek island of Evia have forced around 3,000 people to evacuate aboard ferries.
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'Europe Does Not See Us As Human': Stranded Refugees Struggle In Greece

'Europe Does Not See Us As Human': Stranded Refugees Struggle In Greece

NPR — Rasha al-Ahmed imagined Europe would be a clean, generous place - not a makeshift tent in an olive grove where the mud is mixed with human waste and rotting food. "A safe life with a house and enough food," she said, shuddering as she wiped fetid mud from her 1-year-old daughter's cheeks.
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Broomberg & Chanarin / Mosse / Tolis - Athens Photo Festival

Broomberg & Chanarin / Mosse / Tolis - Athens Photo Festival

photofestival.gr — The exhibition presents three works of art that focus on the different ways we "experience" the refugee/migration crisis from a certain distance, that of the observer, while exploring the problematic of the gaze. The different ways of seeing are integral to the social processes of defining and controlling the Other and are inherent to photography as an objectifying practice.
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Hope - after months of traveling alone

Hope - after months of traveling alone

rescue.org — A new day is dawning for Ahmed, a 17-year-old refugee from Syria. Rescued from the streets of Athens, he found a safe space to stay with the IRC in Greece and is now on his way to be reunited with his uncle in Germany.
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Lesbos Volunteers Recount Harrowing Refugee Rescues

Lesbos Volunteers Recount Harrowing Refugee Rescues

Newsweek — The first time Peggy Whitfield performed CPR was last week, after a wooden boat carrying some 300 people sank off the north coast of the Greek island of Lesbos.
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A friendship born in dance

A friendship born in dance

rescue.org — Nazia and Rolian* bonded over their love for dance. The two 16-year-old girls-one from Afghanistan, the other from Syria-practice Zumba moves to videos downloaded on Nazia's mobile phone. "I want to become a dancer," says Nazia with a bright smile on her face. "My favorite singer is Justin Bieber.
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The Refugee Crisis through Mobile Phones

The Refugee Crisis through Mobile Phones

filmfestival.gr — The Refugee Crisis through Mobile Phones - Η προσφυγική κρίση μέσα από τα κινητά τηλέφωνα As the refugee crisis hit its peak in 2015 and 2016, more than a million displaced people arrived to Europe after making the journey across the sea. Of that total, at least 800,000 had crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.
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How Greece's Biggest Refugee Camp Avoided a Catastrophic Coronavirus Outbreak

How Greece's Biggest Refugee Camp Avoided a Catastrophic Coronavirus Outbreak

VICE — MORIA CAMP, Lesbos - When the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Europe in early 2020, Greeks feared the worst: After a decade of austerity following the financial crisis, the country's weakened health system would be quickly overwhelmed by a significant outbreak - especially if cases started spreading in the packed refugee camps dotting islands in the Meditteranean, close to Turkey.
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These Doctors Are Hitting the Street to Protect Athens' Homeless from Coronavirus

These Doctors Are Hitting the Street to Protect Athens' Homeless from Coronavirus

VICE — ATHENS -- Coronavirus lockdowns mean even greater hardships for homeless people, so a group of doctors in Athens are reaching out to the city's vulnerable homeless population to try to protect them.
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RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ Radio 1 - FM (Ireland) — At least 32 dead after two trains collided head on in Greece CLIP • 6 MINS • 01 MAR • MORNING IRELAND Daphne Tolis, freelance reporter based in Athens, outlines what is known so far about the death of 32 people after two trains collided head on in Greece last night.
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Greeks take to the streets following deadly train crash

Greeks take to the streets following deadly train crash

The World from PRX — People gathered in central Athens outside the Greek rail company, following a tragic train accident that left dozens of people dead. Some of the protesters clashed with police. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Greek journalist Daphne Tolis about the investigation into the accident.
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The migrant who lost it all at sea

The migrant who lost it all at sea

BBC — Hundreds of migrants are crossing the Mediterranean everyday, trying to reach European countries, mainly Italy and Greece. Many of them reach the shores with their belongings, and some money. But others lose it all during the sea journey.
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On board Greek migrant rescue mission

On board Greek migrant rescue mission

BBC — The Greek government has told the BBC that at least 18,000 migrants have arrived into the country by sea this year, putting the country on track to surpass the numbers of migrants that reached their shores in 2014.
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BBC World Service - BBC OS, Flu Spreads Through Freezing Greek Refugee Camp

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Flu Spreads Through Freezing Greek Refugee Camp

BBC — Some five thousand people are stuck on the Greek island in unsuitable housing and with inadequate sanitation, says journalist Daphne Tolis. She's been reporting from Athens on the refugee and migrant crisis since it began. (Photo: A man prays in Moria refugee camp on Lesbos. Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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‎Darnell Responds: A Humanitarian Crisis: How is Greece handling the impact of migration to Europ...

‎Darnell Responds: A Humanitarian Crisis: How is Greece handling the impact of migration to Europ...

podcasts.apple.com — Migrants and refugees are continuing to arrive on Greek shores with hopes of entering Europe. Darnell speaks to journalists Daphne Tolis and Valentini Anagnostopoulou to understand what is happening on the ground and how the crisis is being managed.
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Moria fires: Caritas calls for the safety of migrants - www.caritas.eu

Moria fires: Caritas calls for the safety of migrants - www.caritas.eu

caritas.eu — Caritas Europa is alarmed and saddened by the humanitarian disaster that is unfolding after several fires destroyed nearly the entirety of the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos during the night of September 8th. Photo © Daphne TOLIS
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