Conditions in the new migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos are becoming more difficult as winter approaches. Many still have to wash in the sea or with containers of water in "showers" they have built themselves.
At least one man has drowned after a migrant dinghy sank off the Greek island of Rhodes. Coast guard authorities said the boat had set off from the Turkish coast.
At a high-level conference on migration on November 19, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen underscored that Italy, Greece, and Spain are concerned that they do not have the capacity to deal with migration flows and that they need help from other European countries.
The Greek police have arrested a Syrian man suspected of having been involved in an IS Jihadist group. The 27-year-old was staying at the camp with his wife and children. According to Greek police, he said he entered Greece in March 2018.
Greece says it is abolishing the practice of holding unaccompanied migrant children in police custody. The announcement comes as Europe's top human rights watchdog said Greece was detaining migrants in unacceptable conditions and called for an end to illegal pushbacks.
Homeless refugees from Afghanistan seeking shelter in Athens, Greece are forced to sleep in the open under a tree in Victoria Square. A mother tells InfoMigrants how hard it is to see her children suffer.
A father whose son drowned on the weekend in an attempt to reach Samos by boat was arrested on suspicion of endangering a life. News agency AP reported that father and son were among a group of 25 migrants who set off from Turkey to the Greek Aegean Islands.
Greece is considering changing its asylum law so more people could be returned to Turkey under the 'safe country' rule. The Greek migration minister also told InfoMigrants that state support for refugees could end after just a few months under further proposed changes.
The body of a young boy, thought to be six years old, was discovered by the Greek coast guard near the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea. A woman, still conscious, was located in the same spot along with ten other migrants nearby. Six others were located on land after their boat ran into trouble off the Greek island.
Notis Mitarakis, the Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, has told InfoMigrants about plans to get tougher on migration, with closed camps, new asylum laws and tighter border controls. But he denied allegations of migrant pushbacks, saying Greece has acted within the law.
Two aid organizations have criticized the situation for migrants who live in island camps in the Aegean Sea. While Germany's Kindernothilfe condemns the evacuation of PIKPA camp on Lesbos for allegedly being inhumane, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demands safety for migrants on Samos after the fire at the Vathy camp.
Neda is 11 years old and suffers from a physical condition: she cannot walk properly anymore because she cannot control her legs. She lives with her parents in a small room at the Eleonas migrant camp in Athens, and she told us about her dreams for the future.