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Another incident showing the Turkish coastguard harassing a vessel carrying refugees and migrants from the Turkish coasts towards Greece, has caused the intense reaction of the UN and the Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The UN mentioned in a Tweet that...

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie will visit Lesbos island on Tuesday night as a UN Special Envoy for Refugee Issues. According to reports, Jolie will visit refugee and migrant hotspots and camps in Moria, Cara Tepe, Skala Sikamineas and the Mytilene...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, hailed Greece’s efforts to manage the refugee crisis in the organization’s annual report, while also expressing concern for the effects of closed borders on the well-being of...

Nadia Anthouli, a 26-year-old architecture student in the Polytechnic University of Crete, has excelled in an international competition organized by the UN. The UN competition was organized in order to celebrate the 70th anniversary of nuclear weapon and weapons of...

Expressing her frustration with EU member states that refuse to share the burden of accepting refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said history will judge Europe harshly if it fails to follow international law regarding asylum seekers. Chancellor Merkel’s blunt criticism...

In a development that should surprise no one even remotely aware of international law and human rights, the United Nations has said that the tentative deal reached between European Union and Ankara over handling of migrant crisis may be...

The U.N. refugee agency reports that the refugee situation in Greece is rapidly deteriorating, with about 30,000 people living under miserable conditions, but it's proposing a plan to help resolve the crisis. The proposal from the U.N. High Commissioner for...

A top U.N. refugee official has criticized the leaders of the European Union for calling on migrants not to come to Europe. Speaking to reporters Friday in Brussels, UNHCR Europe Bureau Director Vincent Cochetel said that 91 percent of migrants...

The United Nations refugee agency warns Europe is on the verge of an explosive self-induced humanitarian crisis, which could spiral out of control and result in widespread violence. The agency reports the number of refugees and migrants in Greece in...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon highlighted on Friday that the borders must remain open because "such border restrictions do not apply with the Convention of 1951 for the Status of refugees and the 1967 Protocol, because the individual definition...