A/HRC/44/51/Add.1 with and without children. Women in the camp told the experts that they did not feel safe and experienced harassment, especially at night and when seeking access to toilets in common spaces. 70. The experts learned of the concerns about the poor health condition of some women in the camp and the difficulty in acquiring access to medical care. With regard to genderbased violence, including domestic violence, within the confines of the camp, the available solutions are not working in practice, with the requirement of confidentiality often being breached, making the victim an easily identifiable target to all, including the perpetrator. There is limited availability of shelter, a lack of awareness by police officers of the need for a gender-sensitive response and a need for more women police officers. Interpretation capacity at police stations must also be increased. 71. The migrant and refugee women with whom the experts spoke expressed a strong desire for educational opportunities for themselves and their children. They want to become a positive asset and to enrich and contribute to the economy and cultural development of the country. Satisfactory system-wide solutions for women refugees can only be found with the improvement of the overall institutional procedures, processes and culture. The reliance on the goodwill of individuals is insufficient. A systemic response that holds institutions accountable is required. 72. The situation has deteriorated since the experts’ visit in April 2019. Following his visit to Greece in November 2019, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees spoke of “extremely disturbing” conditions in Moria refugee camp, called for the urgent improvement of living conditions on the islands and welcomed the Government’s intended measures to alleviate the situation. B. Roma women 73. Roma people in Greece continue to suffer deep-rooted prejudice. Social exclusion, the risk of poverty, high school dropout rates and inadequate housing conditions are among the main problems faced by the Roma population. Despite efforts by the Government to improve outcomes for Roma women and girls, including through the national strategy for the social inclusion of Roma people, 2012–2020, and initiatives such as the appointment of special prosecutors to investigate crimes motivated by racism and the creation of special police units to assist victims of violence and other crimes motivated by racism and xenophobia, high levels of discrimination, exclusion and stereotypes persist.47 74. In 2016, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination noted that austerity measures taken to address the economic crisis in Greece had had a disproportionate impact on minority groups, such as Roma, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The Committee also expressed its concerns regarding the decrease in budgetary allocations to public institutions that worked on combating racial discrimination, such as the National Commission for Human Rights, the Ombudsman and the labour inspectorate. 48 75. Roma women encounter serious obstacles in gaining access to basic social services, such as housing, employment, education and health care, including the persistence of educational barriers and poor living conditions. They reportedly continue to be disproportionately subjected to arbitrary arrest by the police and other law enforcement officials. Roma women comprise one third of the population of women in detention in Greece, despite being a very small percentage of the overall Greek population.49 47 48 49 16 In its concluding observations on the combined twentieth through twenty-second periodic reports of Greece, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expressed concern about the fact that Roma people, especially those living in informal settlements, still encountered serious obstacles in gaining access to basic social services, such as housing, employment, education and health care (CERD/C/GRC/CO/20-22, para. 20 (a)). See also A/HRC/32/50/Add.1. According to the former Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras, there are 110,000 Greek Roma. See https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/04/09/premier-tsipras-hosts-roma-delegation-forinternational-romani-day/. Others, including Minority Rights Group Greece, put the figure at 265,000. See https://minorityrights.org/minorities/roma-7/.