Greece

The public prosecutor's office of Greece launched an investigation on Monday into the possible involvement of NGOs with Dimitris Lignadis

The Greek island of Tilos in the Dodecanese archipelago has recently opened its arms to welcome refugee children and their families in a gesture highlighting the Greek philoxenia. Eleven young students from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Palestine, and...

Approximately fifty German Christian Democrat MPs from the ruling CDU party recently urged Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, to transfer the thousands of refugee and migrant children currently in Greek camps to other EU-member states. ''Given...

European nations have been feverishly attempting in the last few days to solve the issue of the thousands of unaccompanied refugee children who are currently living on Greek soil. A voluntary coalition of European Union states will take in as...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented a new national action plan on Sunday for the thousands of unaccompanied refugee children who are currently living in the country. "We all recognize the national challenge of the migration issue that Greece is...

The Greek Non-Governmental Organization called "METAdrasi" won two million dollars in a prize awarded by the Conrad Hilton Foundation on Monday. This represents the largest monetary amount of any humanitarian prize in the entire world. "METAdrasi – Action for Migration and Development"...

The ''HOME Project,'' a nonprofit organization which offers shelter and employment for children and young refugees in Greece, recently announced the granting of 18 full-time scholarships for the American Community Schools (ACS Athens) for the academic year 2019-2020. The scholarships...

Merope Tzoufi, Greece's Alternate Education Minister, presented the latest data concerning the Education of refugee children in Greece on Thursday. Tzoufi said at a special event held in the Greek Ministry of Education that approximately 12,500 refugee children are currently...

The City of Athens and the non-profit organization The Home Project have signed an agreement to work together to offer high-quality services to unaccompanied refugee children hosted in shelters in Athens. According to a City of Athens announcement, the cooperation...

More than 2,600 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Greece in 2018, according to Eurostat figures released on Holy Friday. This figure is slightly higher than in 2017 (2,455) and is the third highest in the EU, after Germany and Italy. In...

The humanitarian aid organization ''Médecins sans frontières'' (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF) announced on Friday that they secured pneumonia vaccines at an affordable price in order to vaccinate children who live in refugee camps in Greece. MSF noted that this...

Barcelona FC has been sponsoring a football camp for the last two years for hundreds of refugee children on the island of Lesvos, recruiting adult refugees to serve as coaches. Hundreds of children have become members of the "Barca Soccer...

Five refugee children from Afghanistan have been attacked by masked assailants near a reception facility in the town of Konitsa in northwestern Greece. One minor was injured in the attack, which took place during a sports event involving refugee children...

The school bell rang for the third consecutive year on Tuesday for child refugees who are attending Greek public schools. Last year, more than 8,000 child refugees were enrolled in public schools in all grades, as well as attending afternoon schools...

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...