Who Counts?

In Arabic "salam" means peace, but when I met Salam Magames she was on fire with indignation. The twenty-one-year-old had made a perilous trek from Aleppo, narrowly evading ISIS captors, Turkish prison guards, criminal human traffickers, and death in an inflatable lifeboat on the choppy Aegean Sea. After all that she found herself stranded in an overcrowded refugee camp in Greece alongside her teenage brother. Where, she wondered, were these lauded "human rights" Europe prides itself on? All she saw was desperation, indignity, and squalor.