migrant crisis

This week the NPO Human Rights Watch (HRW) made statements criticizing the Greek authorities and bureaucracy in place that is responsible for detaining refugee children with mental and physical illnesses in the Aegean islands' camps, with no access to proper...

European Union leaders have reached an agreement on migration, in the early hours of Friday morning, after nearly 10 hours of talks at a summit in Brussels. The deal, which will see the burden of resettling refugees shared more widely...

Germany has announced it will stop accepting migrants from Italy and Greece, as the European Union's migrant relocation program draws to a close. An Interior Ministry spokesperson told German newspaper Die Welt that far fewer people had met the necessary...

The European Council and the European Commission must work urgently with Greece to prevent a humanitarian crisis this winter, according to the he Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament. The group called for a...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proposed five measures to tackle migration and refugee flows on a European level, during his address at the two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday. Tsipras spoke of the recent increase in refugee flows in the Aegean,...

A 9-year-old girl died after she was rescued in the waters near the Greek island of Kastelorizo, in the early hours of Thursday. The girl was spotted at sea, together with her mother and another couple with their two children. A...

Nearly 450 migrants and refugees landed on the  Greek islands of the northern Aegean over the last three days, bringing the total number of registered arrivals in September up to 2,755. The recent arrivals include 214 people that arrived at...

Humanitarian artist Salma Zulfiqar created the installation "Building Peace Though the Oceans" as a way to build "peace through the ocean – as a vehicle to promote debate about migrants, she recently told Greek Reporter. Humanitarian artist Salma Zulfiqar created...

Greece continues to see an influx of migrants arriving on its shores as the summer weather encourages more people fleeing their countries to attempt the dangerous crossing of the Aegean Sea in hopes of reaching Europe. The area of...

On Tuesday the European Commission announced that in June it will be deciding on whether there are any legal cases or migration penalties to be made against countries in the EU, such as Poland and Hungary, which have failed...