Timed to coincide with global Refugee Week (17-23 June) and World Refugee Day on 20 June, Greece is spotlighting forced migration with a week-long festival of film screenings, workshops and ...

By 2024, irregular migrant arrivals to the European Union had fallen to around 240,000, less than a quarter of 2015 levels, ...

The right for anyone to request protection, or asylum, is inscribed in EU and international law and in the constitution of Greece itself. But in a move implemented in haste earlier this month and ...

Throughout this long and often uncertain process, Mahmoud was supported by the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), which implements a legal assistance programme in partnership with UNHCR, the UN Refugee ...

Today, Olsen is a wanted man in Greece, caught up in a crackdown on refugees and people trying to defend their right to asylum. “I didn’t know what I walked into,” Olsen says.

According to the U.N. refugee agency about 50,000 migrants have arrived in southern Europe so far this year, including 20,000 in Italy, 15,000 in Spain and 12,000 in Greece. About the Author ...

4.01 MFA 16 June 1952 The Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sophocles Venizelos, informs the Greek Ministry of Social Welfare that, following an appeal by the Representative ...

More than 160,000 people have arrived in Greece by crossing the Mediterranean so far this year, almost half of them from Syria, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.

A refugee appears exhausted while swimming towards the shore after a dinghy carrying Syrian and Afghan refugees deflated about 100 meters before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, Sept. 13, 2015.

IDOMENI, Greece — While European leaders struggled Monday for a unified approach to the refugee crisis, tens of thousands of people affected by their decisions were left stranded in Greece, ...

On Saturday, around 400 demonstrators protested at Leopoldplatz in Berlin’s working-class district of Wedding against the deportations of refugees, including Palestinians, to Greece.