refugees

Following Greece’s announcement to close 60 refuge housing centers, the the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees issued a statement, saying the agency was “deeply concerned” by the Greek move. This follows comments by Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis...

Incoming aid form the United States will aim to improve the living conditions of unaccompanied minors who are migrants to Greece, and to assist the Greek islands as they seek to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The U.S. government...

Sixty of the 93 hotel facilities provided to asylum-seekers will be closed in 2020, according to Greece's Migration and Asylum Policy Minister Notis Mitarakis, who spoke on the issue on Thursday. Official figures have disclosed that 25,503 refugees and asylum-seekers...

A group of 50 refugees - 16 unaccompanied children and 34 adults being reunited with their families - departed for the United Kingdom on Monday in an aircraft that also carried 130 Greek nationals, returning to Greece from the...

The Dutch government is willing to help Greece to move unaccompanied refugee children from Greek islands to the mainland — however, it insists on refusing to take any of them into its own territory. The Hague is under pressure both...

The investigative website Nordic Monitor recently published an extensive report claiming there is evidence that Turkish secret services have for year been conducting operations on Greek territory to locate dissident Turks who fled their country to avoid political persecution. Ankara has...

A 28-year-old pregnant woman from Somalia who is being housed at a hotel in the area of Kranidi in Argolis on Greece's Peloponnesian peninsula, has been found to be positive for the coronavirus. Greece's Migration and Asylum Ministry sent a...

A total of fifty unaccompanied refugee children left Greece on Saturday morning to begin a new, hopefully, brighter life in Germany. Greece's Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the country's migration minister George Koumoutsakos went to the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport of...

The US Department of State announced on Thursday that it will send $500,000 to Greece to assist the country's efforts to safeguard the refugee population from a potential coronavirus outbreak. ''$500,000 in MRA humanitarian assistance will support COVID-19 response efforts...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has issued a call for hotels and ships on Greek islands that can be leased to house vulnerable groups of asylum-seekers who might be affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The move was approved...