Greece

Animal rights activist organization PETA has delivered around 200 fur coats to refugees on Lesvos, Greece. The coats were given to Lighthouse Relief, a charity which provides refugees with urgent help, and aims to protect those stranded in camps from...

American songwriter Amanda Palmer has just released a heartbreaking video for her upcoming, harrowing single "In Harm's Way" inspired by the death of young Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi in Turkey, and conceived while she was working for a Dutch...

The number of refugees and migrants on Lesvos is now less than 5,000, according to figures released by the Greek Ministry of Migration

The number of migrants and refugees at the Kara Tepe Camp on the Greek island of Lesvos has dropped under 6,000 in the last month.

The Greek Police announced on Friday night that they suspended three border guards and one police officer on the island of Lesvos, following the publication of a video, which showed them beating helpless refugees and migrants on the Eastern...

After a series of fires destroyed the Moria camp on Lesvos Island, home to over 12,000 migrants and refugees, the Greek government built a new emergency camp near Kara Tepe, where 9,000 refugees are now housed. The thousands of migrants...

Seventeen out of the 38 migrants and refugees who arrived on the shores of the Plomari area on the Greek island of Lesvos on August 4 were found to be infected by the coronavirus  and have been put in...

Migrants and refugees on Greece's island of Lesvos have been trying in the last several days to help the country's fight against the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic by sewing their own face masks. At the same time, however, fears of a...

The spreading of misinformation aiming to cause new tensions on the Greek island of Lesvos led many refugees and migrants to rush to the port in the capital city of Mytilene on Tuesday, believing that they would be allowed...

A Vatican delegation which visited refugees living in a rag-tag collection of tents on Lesvos on Thursday has donated more than $100,000 to Caritas Hellas and the projects supported by the Greek Catholic charity. The delegation, led by Cardinal Konrad...

The Greek authorities announced that 2,000 refugees who currently live in Lesvos' Moria Camp will be moved to other facilities on the country's mainland, following recent outcries regarding revelations about the truth of the living conditions inside the camp. Recently,...

Greek media are reporting that dozens of undocumented migrants and refugees were found in the Aegean Sea on Monday in two operations. An EU Frontex vessel found 31 people in an inflatable craft being captained by a 16-year-old youth off...

A total of 173 refugees and migrants arrived at the islands of Lesvos and Samos on the first day of the new year. They were all coming from the Turkish coasts. A Frontex vessel rescued 38 refugees and migrants that were...

Between December 1-17, a total of 1,650 refugees and migrants; all members of vulnerable groups, departed from the island of Lesvos and have gone to refugee/asylum seeker facilities in Athens, and other areas of mainland Greece. According to Migration Ministry...

Lesvos island decongestion plan is in full progress. 408 persons have left the island in the last 24 hours. 152 refugees and migrants left on Friday evening from the port of Piraeus while another 256 left with the ferry "Nissos...