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Female refugees face sexual exploitation while children are vulnerable to kidnapping, on the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece and then to northern Europe, says an Al Jazeera report. The report follows the story of Samira, a 32-year-old Moroccan woman...

Despite the loss of tourism revenues on Greek islands where thousands of refugees arrive daily, some businesses seem to profit from the inflow. The number of tourists visiting certain islands has dropped significantly since the refugee crisis escalated in the...

Greece does not have a comprehensive strategy for the return of economic migrants to their country of origin and lacks sufficient detention centers in order to prevent their escape, says a European Commission report. The report marks the progress on the response...

Senior European Union officials warned that Greece could be suspended from the Schengen agreement unless the country tightens border controls. There is frustration among EU country leaders over Greece's inability to control the influx of migrants at its borders. Top European...

More than 5,000 refugees are trapped at the Idomene transit camp as Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is building a fence on its border with Greece. The FYROM government had announced early this week the raising of a fence in...

More than 4,000 refugees arrived in the port of Piraeus, near Athens on board three ferries. In particular, the Greek ferry Eleftherios Venizelos transferred 2,493 refugees from Mytilene, Blue Star 1 transferred 731 refugees from Chios and Mytilene and Nisos...

The United Nations Refugees Agency released a report noting that a total of 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean in October, while escaping their conflict stricken countries in the Middle East and seeking a better future in Europe....

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that migrant deaths on the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe are breaking all previous records. IOM confirmed 3,350 fatalities so far this year, surpassing the record-breaking death toll of 3,279 for all of...

Greece agreed to accommodate 50,000 asylum seekers but not in a single refugee camp as originally proposed by the European Union, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. The decision was taken after an emergency mini-summit on the migrant crisis in Brussels on...

The European Union -- in an effort to ease the burden on Greece and eastern European countries caused by the influx of migrants --says it will set up 100,000 places in reception centers in Greece and along the migrants'...