In a new report on Greece, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Nils Muižnieks, has urged the Greek government to use the full force of the national and international legislation available to combat racism and hate crime, which continue to...
On Wednesday, UNHCR presented its protection considerations and recommendations regarding Syrians in Greece. UNHCR calls on the Greek authorities to facilitate access to the territory for Syrians as well as unhindered access to asylum procedures. Furthermore, UNHCR’s...
The International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have issued a joint statement in which they offered condolences for the victims of two recent migrant shipwrecks in the Ionian Sea....
The search and rescue (SAR) NGO Médecins Sans Frontières Sea (MSF Sea) has renewed its calls for safe and legal pathways after it recovered the bodies of 12 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. The Sea-Eye SAR NGO has won a court case against...
More than two dozen migrants, including a number of unaccompanied children are stranded in the buffer zone in Cyprus. The Italian government has extended the state of emergency over migrant arrivals for six months. The United States of America and Italy are reportedly...
