Human Rights Watch

In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch said that unaccompanied migrant children in Greece are living under deplorable conditions while being kept for prolonged detention periods that is in direct violation of international and Greek law. The 27-page report...

  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...

Human Rights Watch, a pro-human rights group, issued on Thursday a statement, in which they criticize the living conditions of refugees and migrants on the islands of Chios and Lesvos. "Greek authorities, in coordination with the European Union, are automatically...

Members of the Human Rights Watch visited the Greek-FYROM border in Idomeni and reported that the refugees are facing discrimination based on their ethnicity, and inhumane treatment. “Desperate people who are the wrong nationality are being denied the right...

Five masked individuals on board a speedboat attacked inflatable vessels carrying migrants and refugees in the marine area near the Greek island of Lesvos, destroying their engines. Around 9 am on Friday October 9th, the boats started drifting and were...

Since 2008, when the financial crisis first appeared in Greece, the number of women who work in the sex industry has dramatically increased. Women trade sex for money, illegally in most cases, in order to put food on the table...

“Police in Athens frequently harass and abuse homeless people, people who use drugs, and sex workers. Police stops and arbitrary detention of people who live or spend considerable amounts of time on the streets of downtown Athens interfere with...

ATHENS — Rights groups have assailed plans by the Greek government to put a clause in a draft immigration law that would allow for the deportation of migrants making false claims of abuse against law enforcement officials. Human Rights Watch...

International organizations are continuing their calls for an investigation into a January 20th incident off a Greek island near the coast of Turkey in which a boat full of illegal immigrants being towed by the Greek Coast Guard capsized,...

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...