UNHCR: Over 15,500 asylum seekers pre-registered on mainland Greece
The pre-registration exercise aims to address the need to access international protection by an estimated 49,000 people currently on mainland Greece.
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UNHCR – Thessaloniki Municipality sign refugee housing agreement
The agreement will soon create 660 new accommodation places for refugees, who have applied to be relocated to another EU country and for vulnerable asylum-seekers.
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Registration of asylum seekers to begin in the next few weeks
The Asylum Service will conduct a pre-registration exercise for international protection in the mainland from end of May to end of July.
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HRW: Border closures threaten human rights
Thousands of asylum seekers and migrants are trapped in Greece as a result of the border closures. “it is an unconscionable and short-sighted non-solution that is causing suffering and violence”, says Human Rights Watch.
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UNHCR confirms rise in forced displacement
UNHCR’s Mid-Year Trends 2015 report, covering the period from January to end June, shows markers firmly in the red in each of the three major categories of displacement: Refugees, asylum-seekers, and people forced to flee inside their own countries.
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European and UN institutions launch initiative for asylum seekers
The European Commission and the UNHCR launched a scheme to provide 20.000 additional reception places for asylum seekers and relocation candidates in Greece.
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More than 410,000 first time asylum seekers registered in the third quarter of 2015
During the third quarter of 2015 (from July to September 2015), 413,800 first time asylum seekers applied for international protection in the Member States of the European Union (EU), a number almost double that of the second quarter of 2015.
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For some asylum-seekers the journey is over
Their journeys now over, thousands of asylum-seekers are awaiting the results of their applications in a cavernous, historic airport in the German capital, Berlin. With freezing temperatures approaching fast, German authorities are scrambling to ensure no one is left out in the cold, UNHCR says in a report.
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