Inhumane refugee camps cast shame across Europe

Migrants at the Kara Tepe refugee camp, on the  island of Lesbos, Greece. Around 7,600 refugees and migrants have settled at the new tent city after successive fires on September 9 devastated the Moria refugee camp. Picture: Panagiotis Balaskas/AP

Several weeks ago, Moria, Europe's biggest refugee camp, was burnt to the ground. Less than two weeks later, a new camp was built, and the people found themselves once again in a camp in worse conditions than the ones they had evacuated.

The new Moria currently hosts around 7,500 people in summer tents. There are still no showers and adequate sanitation and hygiene facilities amid a global pandemic.