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World Refugee Day

Refugee Week Greece Arts Festival Runs Through June 26th

Refugee Week Greece, which bills itself as a community-led arts festival celebrating stories of migration, runs through June 26th in specified locations throughout the country. The June 20th start coincided with World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the...

Sculptor Working with Refugees in Greece Draws on Ireland's Painful Past

An influential Irish sculptor whose creations have been inspired by his country's traumatic experience of famine and forced emigration was in Greece this week, working with refugees living in a camp in north Athens. John Behan, whose sculpture Arrival was...

Greece's Lesvos Marks World Refugee Day with Concerts by Refugee Children

The island of Lesvos, currently home to almost 10,000 asylum-seekers, will mark World Refugee Day on Wednesday, June 20 with a series of three concerts by the refugee children's orchestra "Connect By Music". With the participation of youngsters currently living...

Greek Restaurants Open Kitchens to Refugee Chefs

To mark World Refugee Day on Wednesday, local restaurants in Athens have opened their kitchens to refugee chefs to create a unique culinary experience. Through set menus or carte blanche, these guest chefs will prepare their best culinary creations from...

World Refugee Day Finds Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers Likely to Stay in Greece Indefinitely

The culmination of the refugee crisis in the summer of 2015 has left its mark on Greece, as tens of thousands asylum seekers seem very likely to stay in the country indefinitely, if not permanently. Since 2015, 850,000 people arrived...

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre CEO to Greek-Australians: ‘They Spoke About us as a Problem, as a Threat, as a Burden’

As the world gets ready to celebrate World Refugee Day and reflect on this important and most relevant subject, the CEO of Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) in Melbourne, Kon Karapanagiotidis, is urging Greek-Australians to remember their history and...

Refugee Food Festival Coming to Athens from June 18-22   

The Refugee Food Festival, a partnership between the NGO Food Sweet Food and UNHCR, is coming to Athens from June 18 till June 22 to coincide with the World Refugee Day (June 20). The event, a civil society led initiative...

How Many Refugees are in Greece? Here's the Head Count Ahead of World Refugee Day!

The Refugee Crisis Management Coordination Body's data shows that there are 57,042 refugees in Greece at the moment. Of these, 5,501 refugees are staying at UNHCR-created settlements, whereas 5,759 are staying at non-organized facilities. Another 1,500 people are scattered. The...

Carnage of the Innocence

Humanity is witnessing chaos in a number of countries across the world, as innocent civilians are forcibly trapped in a vicious cycle of hopelessness, brutality, and indifference. According to data released by the UNHCR on the occasion of the...

Human Trafficking Flourishes In Greece

Greece remains a prime spot for human traffickers to move their cargo into the country and through it to reach other destinations for the people to be exploited into forced labor and as sex slaves, the U.S. State Department...