(Athens) - In a letter made public on June 15, 2023 Human Rights Watch joined 41 other organizations in sending an open letter to a series of high-level Greek and EU officials about a decision to stop ...

Greece wants to use tough measures to deter refugees from entering the country by sea from Libya. Large numbers are arriving on the island of Crete, but not on the same scale as in 2015.The rhetoric ...

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 ...

Lesbos, Greece — A group of 24 aid workers and volunteers who participated in migrant rescue operations on an eastern Greek island went on trial Tuesday in a smuggling-related case widely criticized ...

I took my post as UNHCR Representative in Greece six weeks ago. Working here is the highlight of my career with the United Nations – a career that took me to Africa, Europe and Latin America. I feel ...

Like many European countries, Greece is facing labour force shortages in many sectors of its economy. Yet, there is here a pool of people with skills that the country needs and who are willing – and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MYRSINI, Greece (Reuters) - A small house close to the beach in western Greece is replete with a small rose garden, flowers in a vase, a thatched roof and a kennel, all created by its newly arrived ...