Greece

• Turkey
• Greece

Urging the EU to push Turkey to stick to its obligations under a 2016 refugee deal, Greece has requested the immediate return to Turkey of almost 2.000 migrants living in camps on the Greek Aegean Islands. Turkey continues to refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers.

• Turkey
• Greece
• Germany

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called on countries around the world to defend the principles of the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Various experts have expressed concern over the convention being ignored and habitually breached.

• Greece

The non-governmental organization Aegean Boat Report has vehemently rejected accusations by Greek police that its members, along with those of other organizations, are involved in facilitating the illegal transfer of refugees and migrants to the Greek islands or that it was involved in espionage.

• Turkey
• Italy
• Greece

The Greek coast guard along with crews from four passing ships picked up at least 37 migrants from a boat off Crete on Thursday evening. Several people are reportedly still missing.

• Turkey
• Greece

Three months ago, 28-year-old Stephanie* flew from Kinshasa to Istanbul to join her husband. To reach Europe, the young woman took a boat from Turkey. She said that her boat was turned back by the Greek coast guard, and that she and the other migrants were threatened with guns. This is her story.

• Greece
• Belarus
• Lithuania

The Iraqi government says it will probe the smuggling of migrants after more than 1,500 mainly Iraqi nationals have crossed into Lithuania from Belarus over the past two months. Moreover, the Greek government plans to provide Lithuania with expertise and technical support.

• Tunisia
• Libya
• Greece

In the first six months of 2021, the number of migrants who died at sea in an attempt to reach Europe more than doubled compared to the same period in 2020, according to UN migration agency IOM. Most migrants died on the central Mediterranean route or en route to Spain's Canaries.

• Somalia
• Pakistan
• Afghanistan

"Stress, nightmares and no future": this is the impact of Greece’s latest twist in migration policy on one young Afghan asylum seeker. A new law passed in June means thousands like her could be left without a home or status, or held in detention as they wait to be sent back to Turkey.

• Greece
• Italy

Thirty-four refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos arrived in Italy on Tuesday through a humanitarian corridor sponsored by the Community of St. Egidio.

• Greece

Amnesty International has launched a petition, demanding the Greek government end its alleged pushbacks of refugees and migrants. The organization recently released a report, accusing Greek authorities of illegally returning potential asylum seekers to Turkey.

• Greece

On the Greek island of Lesbos, young refugees and migrants play football together for FC Cosmos. The sport helps them overcome their traumas and successfully integrate into Greek society. Some even dream of going pro.

• Greece
• Turkey

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, has highlighted that public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic cannot have the effect of denying asylum and protection to migrants. He denounced to the Human Rights Council last week the practice of collective expulsions carried out by some countries.