Europe could not implement a common policy against increasing number of refugees. After Sweden, Denmark and German’s limitations on refugees, Austria also announced that it would limit the number of refugees to 1.5% of its population. In response, German Chancellor Angela Merkel invited the member countries of the EU to adopt a common police across …
Cries of the Afghan girl moving beyond wire fences
News agencies received the photo of a girl sobbing behind the wire fence at the Greek-Macedonian border. Aged 4 to 5, a little Afghan girl was crying ‘Please, open the border!’. Arriving from Afghanistan, thousands of refugees have been waiting at the Idomeni border. The reason for this is that like many other European countries, …
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First refugee group prepares to set off for Turkey under the new EU deal
Preparations are on the way for the first refugee group to be sent back to Turkey from Greece. Almost 6,000 refugees, mostly citizens of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, are held near the Port of Piraeus and are to be sent to Turkey. The measures predicated by the refugee admission agreement between Turkey and the EU …
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Refugees not desiring to be sent back resist
Travelers full of hope started to resist as the agreement between Turkey and the EU entered into force. Not desiring to be sent back to Turkey, refugees demonstrated by tearing down the razor fire fence on Chios. Greek police managed to take control of the nearly 300 refugees who left the holding center. In the …
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European Union seeks agreements with African dictators to deter refugees
The European Union (EU) is abandoning all pretense of human rights restraints in its refugee policy. A strategy paper published last week by the EU Commission outlined migration partnerships that will compensate nine states in Africa and the Middle East, both transit countries and countries of origin, for their cooperation in deterring refugees. The goal …
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Balkan countries shut borders as attention turns to new refugee routes Assad regime’s starve or surrender strategy ‘a crime against humanity’
Hundreds of thousands could become trapped in Greece after Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia announce frontier closures. European leaders claim to have closed the main refugee route to northern Europe, raising the possibility of tens if not hundreds of thousands of refugees being trapped in Greece while the EU attempts to finalise a deal that could …
Islamophobia in Europe
Unfavourable views on Muslims rise in Europe.
Refugees caught up in child prostitution in Athens
THERE ARE NEW arrivals in the once grand park of Pedion tou Areos in central Athens. Among the drug dealers and dog walkers, joggers and junkies, are a shifting cast of refugee children. Lured into the vastness of its ruined tree-lined avenues and vandalized statues by the promise of money and a way out of …
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Refugees in Greek camps targeted by mafia gangs
Aid workers warn of imminent disaster as centres become breeding ground for criminal activity, including drug smuggling, human trafficking and violence. Fresh evidence is emerging that refugees stranded in camps across Greece are falling victim to rising levels of vice peddled by mafia gangs who see the entrapped migrants as perfect prey for prostitution, drug …
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Women, children face sexual assault in Greek refugee camps
As refugees remain stranded in Greece, the fear of sexual assault in Greek refugee camps is an everyday reality. Children and women in Greek refugee camps are struggling to survive in inhuman conditions where the probabilities of being sexually abused are so high that women fear visiting restrooms alone during the night. According to human …
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