migrants

UNICEF announced that it would set up a child-friendly zone in the area near the Greek-FYROM border for underage refugee and migrant children seeking asylum. Over the last weeks, thousands of asylum seekers have arrived at the border between...

Record numbers of migrants are entering Hungary, officials said Tuesday, as well as arriving in many other parts of Europe. The U.N. refugee agency is calling on all governments to respond compassionately to this human tide of people who...

Germany has suspended the EU's Dublin Regulation regarding asylum-seeking Syrian refugees and has stopped deporting them to the country of entry to Europe. This means that Greece will not have to register thousands of refugees who have crossed to...

Weak coordination and severe shortages in facilities and staffing are creating dreadful conditions for the hundreds of refugees and migrants arriving daily on the Greek island of Lesvos, Amnesty International said in a report on Monday, after a research team returned...

Around 11:00 am on Monday morning, August 24, Greek ferry "Eleftherios Venizelos" arrived at the port of Piraeus carrying some 2,500 people, mostly Syrian nationals from the Greek island of Lesvos, where the situation has gotten out of control. Adult migrants got a 50-euro...

The bodies of two undocumented migrants were found in the sea region of Skala, Lesvos island. The migrants were on board a boat that capsized on Monday morning. Eight persons have been rescued and according to their testimonies a total...

On August 22, migrants and refugees were desperately trying to bypass the FYROM police and army forces, located at the neutral zone near the Greek-FYROM border. Several were injured as thousands of people were trying to forcibly enter the...

Thousands of migrants rode trains and buses and walked through FYROM and Serbia on Sunday in an effort to get to European Union member Hungary, where authorities are building a razor-wire fence to keep them from entering. The migrants, mostly...

The situation at the Greek-FYROM border has gotten out of control as 5,000 migrants and refugees have gathered in the area seeking to enter the country. The FYROM police have clashed with the large crowd and as a result...

Tensions were high in the neutral zone on the border between Greece and FYROM, where hundreds of refugees and migrants are stranded, waiting to enter Greece’s neighboring country. According to Greek Police, FYROM's border guards used stun grenades to repel the crowd...