asylum

Greek authorities started examining asylum applications at Moria’s hotspot on the island of Lesvos, adding that almost all refugees and migrants who arrived on the island after March 20 have submitted applications, police said. Speaking to public broadcaster ERT, Brigadier...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed serious concerns about the recent agreement between the European Union and Turkey, pointing to what he termed “a contradiction at the heart of the agreement,”...

As the refugee crisis has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing the future of Europe in the postwar era, Oxford University Press has made more than 30 book chapters, journal articles, and pieces of content from online...

"The greatest challenge for this year is to have a really common European asylum system and a just sharing of a responsibility system in the EU member-states, UN Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Director of the Division of...

Greece does not have a comprehensive strategy for the return of economic migrants to their country of origin and lacks sufficient detention centers in order to prevent their escape, says a European Commission report. The report marks the progress on the response...

About 1,500 Pakistanis, Moroccans and Iranians have been stuck in Idomeni -- a little town which is the border between Greece and FYROM -- for weeks after non-EU Balkan states began filtering migrants and granting passage only to refugees...

By Heaven Crawley I stood in the corner of a dusty cemetery on the Greek island of Lesvos and watched a mother bury her child. As the tiny body of a baby boy wrapped in a white sheet was lifted...

During the second quarter of 2015 (from April to June 2015), 213,200 first time asylum seekers applied for protection in the European Union (EU), up by 15 pct compared with the first quarter of 2015 and by 85 pct...

By Katharine Jones, Coventry University The European Commission has announced that it will embark on an unprecedented mandatory emergency “relocation” of 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean refugees. The Commission proposes that women, men and children who arrive in Greece and Italy who...

"The current situation is far beyond the capabilities of the Asylum Service," Maria Stavropoulou, head of the Service said in an interview to Athens-Macedonian News Agency. She referred to staff shortages that have led the Regional Asylum Office in Attica to...