Refugees will in future be treated like criminals in Greece. That is the essence of the tougher asylum law that the Greek government, under the right-wing New Democracy (ND), pushed through parliament ...

Rights groups say Greece is acting as Brussels’ bellwether for measures that aren’t always legal, moral, implementable.

Refugees told the NYT that men sent by Greek authorities robbed them and abandoned them at sea. The 12 refugees from Somalia, Eritrea, and Ethiopia were trying to seek asylum in Greece. Greek ...

Norwegian Epic went off course to rescue 67 refugees that were found in distress in the Mediterranean Sea, leading to an ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - A group of mainly Syrian women and children who have been stranded in Greece pitched tents opposite parliament in Athens on Wednesday in a protest against delays in reuniting with ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will deliver within a week on its pledges to shelter 30,000 migrants and refugees, a government spokesman said on Monday, as EU leaders and Turkey meet in a last-ditch ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Under heavy security, authorities on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios deported 202 migrants and refugees on boats bound for Turkey — the first to be sent back as part of a ...

An Austrian aid worker, named Fayad Mulla, released video footage on Saturday capturing Greek officials mistreating refugees seeking asylum within the country. The New York Times verified the footage ...

A group of Afghan women and girls talk in the Vial refugee camp on the island of Chios, in Greece. (Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at ...

Hundreds are feared dead after the latest mass drowning of refugees off the coast of Greece. What was described as a vastly overcrowded 20-30 metre fishing vessel sank in the early hours of Wednesday.

GENEVA, Aug 18 (UNHCR) - More refugees and migrants arrived in Greece last month than during the whole of 2014, the UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday, and called for a European-wide response to ...

Marie Claire magazine recently published a story on four refugee women in Greece, which has been called "a country of refugees". The magazine also helped distribute a UNHCR leaflet on refugee women.