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Context The Greek government has, as expected, passed an Act which will significantly reduce the rights of men, women and children who...

2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention...

People who like to deal in political aphorisms will tell you that the first weeks a government spends in power are its most important....

The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...

There are at least 17,951 people who were registered as refugees and/or made an application for asylum, in Greece, from 1 January-18...

Thessaloniki, 28 April Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 26 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 4,613. Total arrivals since 3...

The – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding...

Rob Wilson, the former UK Charities Minister, has used his column in the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph to attack an...

The United Nations has voted – overwhelmingly – to reject the US’ recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. Of the 193...

At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there...

In yet another measure which signals both its withdrawal from actively participating in international agreements, and its ongoing desire...

Russia has used its veto at the UN Security Council for the tenth time in the almost seven years of the Syrian civil war, once again to...

The United Nations says it has moved 25 ‘extremely vulnerable’ refugees from Libya to Niger, in the first stage of its new – deeply...

Refugees in Italy note that they had no real intention of coming to Europe, until they experienced the chaos in Libya, and realised they...

The UN meets today to discuss the formation of a five-nation, 5,000 soldier armed force to operate across the Sahel and into Libya. The...

The United Nations’ Joint Investigative Mechanism reports that Bashar al Assad launched sarin gas projectiles at Khan Sheikun, a...

The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has visited Washington DC to request the US does more to ‘show leadership’ on...

Israel and the US have announced that they will leave UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural protection body, with the latter citing...

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Joanathan has told the Rhodes Forum that far from preventing wars, the UN has ‘only succeeded in...