The Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) held today a Press Conference to present the results from the recording of violent incidents with racist motive during 2021. This is the tenth Annual ...
Today, on World Refugee Day, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in Greece is pleased to announce the winners of its 25th National Student Contest with the theme “Education cannot wait!”. UNHCR’s National ...
Sarah Mardini faces years behind bars for helping save refugees and migrants at risk of drowning in the Aegean, only months after her and her sister’s own dramatic escape from the Syrian war became ...
Recently, reports of illegal “pushbacks”–an illegal practice of forcibly returning refugees from whence they came–in Greece have soared. Tommy Olsen faces years in prison for documenting pushbacks ...
Rights groups say Greece is acting as Brussels’ bellwether for measures that aren’t always legal, moral, implementable.
A group of Afghan women and girls talk in the Vial refugee camp on the island of Chios, in Greece. (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...
Greece’s data protection watchdog is set to issue a long-awaited decision on the legality of controversial high-tech surveillance and security systems deployed in the country’s refugee camps. The ...
The rhetoric being used is martial: Thanos Plevris, Greece's recently appointed migration minister, has called the influx of refugees across the Mediterranean an "invasion." Several lawmakers from the ...
Ten years ago, migration made headlines across Europe as 1.2 million people arrived in search of safety—a number that, in a single year, has only been surpassed by the displacement caused by the war ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - A group of mainly Syrian women and children who have been stranded in Greece pitched tents opposite parliament in Athens on Wednesday in a protest against delays in reuniting with ...
Refugees will in future be treated like criminals in Greece. That is the essence of the tougher asylum law that the Greek government, under the right-wing New Democracy (ND), pushed through parliament ...