UNHCR statement on the situation at the Turkey-EU border
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is appealing for calm and an easing of tensions on Turkey’s borders with the European Union in light of the present increased movements of people there – including refugees and asylum-seekers. UNHCR is monitoring developments in Turkey and in Greece and is offering its […]
UNHCR deplores attacks against humanitarians on Greek islands, appeals for calm
Ελληνικά UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, appeals for calm and restraint after a series of deplorable and intimidating acts on the Greek Aegean islands against refugees and migrants, humanitarian workers, including a UNHCR staff member on Lesvos and the arson of a UNHCR transit site for new arrivals on Lesvos’s […]
Mohamed Salah joins up with Vodafone Foundation and UNHCR as first Instant Network Schools Ambassador
Footballer becomes Ambassador for school programme that aims to give a quality education to 500,000 refugee and host country students by 2025. 20 new Instant Network Schools will be launched this year as the programme prepares to enter Egypt for the first time. Mohamed Salah has become the first Ambassador […]
UNHCR welcomes Finland’s offer to receive vulnerable asylum-seekers from the Mediterranean region
Press Statement from UNHCR Representation for Northern Europe
Vulnerable asylum-seekers struggle to access medical care on overcrowded Greek islands
With more than 18,000 people now living at a site built for 2,200, UNHCR urges Greek authorities to take emergency steps to improve conditions at Moria reception centre.
Act now to alleviate suffering at reception centres on Greek islands – UNHCR’s Grandi
Ελληνικά UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi today called for urgent action to address the increasingly desperate situation of refugees and migrants in reception centres in the Aegean islands. Conditions in facilities on Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos and Leros are woefully inadequate, and have continued to deteriorate since Grandi […]