EU proposes new approach to better support displaced people through its external action
The European Commission puts forward new approach to change the way refugees and displaced people are supported in external action policies.
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Queen Rania visited refugee camp in Greece
Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah called for a collective global response to the refugee crisis during her visit to Lesvos.
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The Island of All Together: Conversations on Lesvos [interview]
“We talk a lot about each other, but never with each other.” With that thought in mind Marieke van der Velden and Philip Brink traveled to Lesvos and invited European tourists and Syrian refugees to talk to one another about life. The result was a short documentary entitled, “The Island of All Together”. Philip and Marieke spoke to EmbassyNews.net about the project and the people that made it all happen.
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Athens DNA lab helps trace those lost at sea on Aegean crossing
With children accounting for 38 per cent of those on the move, the chances of them drowning on the crossing from Turkey to Greece have grown proportionately. An average of two children a day drown, according to UNHCR figures.
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A Syrian family starts over in Canada
Kevork, his three sisters and brother-in-law reached Montreal via Lebanon in December, under a Canadian Government programme that has resettled more than 26,000 Syrian refugees in under six months.
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Phone Home Athens : A theatre project on migration
Phone Home creators initiated a series of theatre workshops in Greece, Germany and the U.K. in collaboration with migrant communities, NGOs and refugee support groups.
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EU/Turkey: Mass, fast-track returns threaten rights says HRW
The European Union outline deal with Turkey announced on March 8, 2016, contradicts EU principles guaranteeing the right to seek asylum and against collective expulsions. “A fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of the EU-Turkey deal taking shape,” said Human Rights Watch.
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Swedish Prime Minister on refugee crisis: “We must move from chaos to control”
“Sweden is ready and will act for a new asylum system in the EU that is based on equal distribution and in which asylum is sought in the EU – not in an individual country,” said Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven as he debated current EU affairs with MEPs.
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A poem for refugees
While Greece is in the middle of the refugee crisis, Poets Circle, following a five-year period of poetic activism, brings the refugees issue to the forefront of cultural life in Greece and in the rest of the world through a series of events on March 21th 2016, World Poetry Day.
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UNHCR Survey finds Afghan and Syrian refugees arriving to Greece are fleeing conflict and violence
A UNHCR survey found that some 94% of Syrians arriving in Greece in January made the perilous journey by sea to escape conflict and violence in Syria. Similarly, 71% of the Afghans surveyed cited conflict and violence as the main reason they left their country.
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