Reproductive rights on the move: refugee women in Greece struggle to access contraception
(WorldNews Greece)

Half of female asylum-seekers in Europe are aged 18-34. With little control over their environments, how can they retain control over their bodies? Refugees in a camp outside Athens. Photo: Nikolas Georgiou/Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved. Marwa (a pseudonym) lifts her trousers to show me the varicose veins and bruises that cover her calves. The 34 year-old Syrian woman says these became worse from daily trekking over rocky, uneven ground at a refugee camp outside Athens where she lived for five months. When we met in June, Marwa had moved to a private house, was nine months pregnant, and struggling to walk. The baby she was expecting would be her sixth. The pregnancy, she...