asylum

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) appeared pleased with the Cypriot government's enormous efforts in providing assistance to over 330 Syrian and Palestinian refugees who have abandoned their war-torn homelands. As UNHCR underlined, Cyprus has done its best...

The need to address the migration phenomenon with decisive and coordinated European action underlined the Commissioner for Immigration, Citizenship and Internal Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos. Addressing the First European Forum for Migration, the Greek Commissioner stressed the importance of civil...

Data released by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) showed that new applications for asylum have increased  by 31% from December 2013 to January 2014 in the European Union and by 21% in Greece. According to the Monthly Trend Analysis...

Human Rights Watch used harsh language towards Greece and the EU in its annual report that was published on Tuesday January 21, 2014. “European Union (EU) leaders in 2013 acknowledged problems of rising intolerance and persistent human rights violations...

Human rights groups in Greece are accusing the government of subjecting asylum seekers to a "degrading and illegal" application process that aims to discourage them from formally requesting state protection. Fourteen local rights groups said Friday that refugees from war...

Every week more than 100 people, including a few women and children, wait for hours overnight outside a police building in Athens, hoping to apply for asylum. The moment they have been waiting for comes at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday,...

He is of Greek descend and is considered to be the “king of pearls”. Nicholas Paspaley is the CEO of the Darwin-based Paspaley Pearls, the largest pearling company in Australia. The Paspaley family also owns an aviation company with 21...