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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Nana Mouskouri, acclaimed singer and humanitarian, is the latest in a round of celebrities to focus on Greece this week. She will accompany UNICEF Central and Eastern Europe Regional Director Marie-Pierre Poirier on a four-day visit...

Greek public broadcaster ERT reported that the eviction of refugees and migrants from the town of Idomeni is complete. The site, near the Greek border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), was a gathering spot for people...

The second day of the evacuation of the makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni was deemed a success by the Greek government with only 1,500 migrants left in the area on Wednesday night. A total 1,003 refugees and migrants were removed...

The evacuation of the makeshift migrant camp at Idomeni is not going according to the plan of Greek authorities as many migrants refuse to board the buses that would carry them to official hospitality facilities. According to a Skai television...

The evacuation process in Idomeni camp began on Tuesday morning, and according to the police more than 1,500 refugees and migrants have departed with buses and are heading towards structures in the wider region of Thessaloniki. The police forces however,...

Hellenic Police on Tuesday morning started an operation to clear the makeshift migrant camp in Idomeni, on the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border. More than 8,000 migrants and refugees had been left stranded at the tent town during the...

Greek authorities plan to evacuate the makeshift migrant camp at Idomeni, located near the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border. The spokesman for the coordinating committee for refugees, Giorgos Kyritsis, said that the evacuation will take place Tuesday or Wednesday. He...

Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday it is imperative to speed up the refugee relocation program from Greece. His statements were made after the end of the meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels. “There’s no...

Children are being prostituted by adults at the reception center for migrants and refugees at Greece's old Elliniko airport, says Alimos Mayor Andreas Kondylis. According to the allegations circulating in the media, Kondylis purports that members of the camp...

Refugees holding snakes and scorpions barged into the hall where a meeting was being held by the Municipality of Larissa, capital and the largest city of Thessaly. The goal of the protestors was to show the wretched conditions at...