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After Paris attacks, refugees should not be turned into scapegoats
17 Nov 2015 UNHCR concerned at reports attacker may have entered Europe in current influx, but stresses overwhelming majority are fleeing persecution and conflict -
Asylum-seekers await application results at historic Berlin airport
17 Nov 2015 Berlin Tempelhof Airport provides temporary home to 2,000 asylum seekers, including 500 children, as their claims are assessed. -
UNHCR chief says it is "absolute nonsense" to blame refugees for terror
17 Nov 2015 Guterres urges European Governments not to make any unilateral moves in the aftermath of recent attacks, but to find a united response -
Some 3,300 people a day still arriving on Lesvos
13 Nov 2015 Despite dangerous sea conditions and the approach of winter, the number of refugees and migrants arriving each day remains high. -
A childhood regained on Kos
11 Nov 2015 New transit centre supported by UNHCR and run by Greek NGO Praksis, offers food, shelter, medical care to all children arriving on the island -
UNHCR aids refugees on the Greek Islands
6 Nov 2015 An estimated 20,000 refugees and migrants are currently on the Islands of Chios, Kalymnos, Kos, Lesvos, Leros and Samos, many sleeping in tents and local parks, placing considerable strain on the limited reception facilities there -
First asylum-seekers relocate from Greece to Luxembourg
4 Nov 2015 First asylum-seekers relocate from Greece to Luxembourg -
Shaken by war, Syrian children start over at German school
29 Oct 2015 Young refugees begin the process of integration with German classes -
Worsening weather brings more tragedy to eastern Aegean
29 Oct 2015 At least 15 people have died and 38 are missing in five incidents involving smuggler vessels carrying refugees and migrants between Turkey and Greece