The Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan aims at complementing and reinforcing Governments’ efforts to ensure safe access to asylum and the protection of refugees and migrants.
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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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UNHCR, IOM and UNICEF say that more than 340 children, many of them babies and toddlers, have drowned in the eastern Mediterranean since September 2015.
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Fatalities of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean in January topped 360 due to a particularly deadly final weekend of the month.
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2015 saw over a million refugees and migrants arriving in Europe by boat. Around 850,000 of these crossed from Turkey to Greece.
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More than 100 UN and other humanitarian organizations have together issued a powerful joint appeal, urging people to raise their voices and call for an end to the Syria crisis.
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Since the beginning of 2016, IOM estimates that 31,244 migrants and refugees have arrived in Greece by sea. This is some 21 times as many as the 1,472 recorded by the Greek Coast Guard for the whole of January 2015.
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IOM Greece reported that 106,776 migrants crossed into the Greek islands during the month of December, an average of over 3,400 per day. Total migrant inflows through the blue borders of Greece approached 850,000 arrivals for the year.
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Persecution, conflict and poverty have driven a staggering one million people to seek safety in Europe in 2015, according to estimates by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration, IOM.
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A program run by the Embassy of Norway, in order to empower, educate and encourage unaccompanied migrant children express their fears and frustrations in addition to their hopes for the future.
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