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

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 ...

Germany is considering taking in thousands of refugees from the destroyed Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos as a one-off gesture and hopes the camp can be rebuilt and run by the European Union, ...

Greece moved hundreds of migrants on the island of Lesbos into tents on Monday after a fire last week destroyed the refugee centre where they were housed.

Greece is drafting a plan to direct asylum recipients to the labor market due to worker shortages in agriculture, ...

The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 18 August 2015 The number of refugees ...

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 ...