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Greece
Human Rights Group Tells Greece to Stop Jailing Refugee Children
Human Rights Watch, a rights group concerned with the refugee crisis, called on Greece to stop holding unaccompanied migrant children in police station cells. Greece is urged to find facilities to hold minors entering the country and offer them...
Crime
Police Brutality Shown to Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Greece
Doctors Without Borders have reported violence at the Reception and Identification Center of Morias at Lesbos. The case came to light when 12 Pakistani minors visited the medical center on June 24, accompanied by the center's chief for an...
Hollywood
Maria Menounos Shares Her Struggle for Kids With Fans
Maria Menounos recently got engaged to her longtime boyfriend of 18 years, Keven Undergaro, and she now reveals that they'd like to be parents before the wedding.
Menounos has opened up to her fans and shared her struggle to conceive...
Greece
IOM Report on Unaccompanied Minors: Heart-Wrenching Case Studies
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) published a report in Greece, titled Addressing the Needs of Unaccompanied Minors", based on interviews with 1,206 child migrants traveling alone in Greece. 508 of those interviewed said they would not want to...
Greece
Nana Mouskouri to Visit Refugee and Migrant Children of Greece
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Nana Mouskouri, acclaimed singer and humanitarian, is the latest in a round of celebrities to focus on Greece this week. She will accompany UNICEF Central and Eastern Europe Regional Director Marie-Pierre Poirier on a four-day visit...
Crime
Heartwrenching Allegations of Child Prostitution at Elliniko Refugee Hotspot
Children are being prostituted by adults at the reception center for migrants and refugees at Greece's old Elliniko airport, says Alimos Mayor Andreas Kondylis. According to the allegations circulating in the media, Kondylis purports that members of the camp...
Europe
Border Closures Heighten Fear Refugees May Use Adriatic Connection
Huma rights groups and organized crime experts are expressing rising alarm at the prospect of Syrian and Iraqi war refugees — many of them women and children — heading into Albania from Greece, now that the main Balkans route...
Europe
Child and Family Protection Centers Set Up Along European Migration Route
The United Nations refugee agency and U.N. children's fund are setting up 20 centers to support and protect children and families fleeing war and persecution as they move across Europe’s well-worn migration routes.
The so-called Blue Dot hubs are intended...
Crime
Children from Bulgaria Are Being Sold to Greeks According to New Report
In an extensive report, the Balkan Insight claims that there are close to hundreds of children being sold by mothers in Bulgaria to Greek couples every year.
The report notes that while mothers profit with 1,000 euros to 5,000 euros for selling their...
Greece
Six Children Reportedly Drown off Turkish Coast
At least six children lost their lives during two separate efforts of migrants and refugees to cross from the Turkish shores to the Greek islands.
In one of the two incidents, one boat transporting migrants and refugees capsized on its way...