ATHENS, Greece — A major overnight fire swept through Greece’s largest refugee camp, which had been placed under COVID-19 lockdown, burning through container housing and leaving more than 12,000 ...
Two dozen rescue workers, including the Syrian refugee turned campaigner Sara Mardini, went on trial on Thursday in Greece on ...
"We are down there today to register the refugees' needs and officially inform them that they should relocate to organised camps," the source told AFP. Some 700 mainly Afghan refugees are living at ...
The Greek Council for Refugees on Tuesday questioned the legal basis of the government's suspension of asylum claims to stem a surge in arrivals of irregular migrants. Hundreds of migrants who have ...
Two dozen aid workers went on trial in Greece on Thursday on charges including migrant smuggling, in a case that rights groups have dismissed as a baseless attempt to outlaw aid for refugees heading ...
Doctors Without Borders is calling for immediate action after identifying cases of malnourished children in an asylum seeker camp on the Greek island of Samos. The group said six children from Syria ...
Greece must take "urgent" steps to improve "miserable" conditions in its overcrowded island migrant camps, the UN refugee chief said Wednesday. There are over 39,000 asylum-seekers in Greek island ...
ATHENS, Sept. 8 (UNHCR) - Mention "refugee" and "camp" in the same sentence, and one conjures up images of war-stricken people living in tented camps or accommodation centres in foreign lands. But to ...
Ambassador Nikolaos Chatzivasileiou, the Permanent Representative of Greece to the International Organizations in Geneva, informs the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the funding allocated by ...