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What happened on Turkey's border with Greece today? Did the Turkish government really 'open' the border? the truth is a little more complex.

Nea Dimokratia's shocking use of violence to crush demonstrations against illegal prisons for refugees can offer opportunities for all.

We find ourselves forced to counter erroneous claims and insinuations from the Greek author Takis Theodoropulos regarding NGOs in Greece.

A piece on the situation in Libya at present, relevant for its international implications, human rights issues for Libyan and other people, Mediterranean imp...

We were not sure whether to post this piece, but as it relates to international law, the UN's Declaration of Human Rights and the structure of the UN, we dec...

Oh good. Someone writing about Australia… Don’t panic. It’s really about the world and what we do next. Better? Well, tough… OK, so this is the second of the...

Context The Greek government has, as expected, passed an Act which will significantly reduce the rights of men, women and children who attempt to claim asylu...

Since the immoral and illegal EU/Turkey Deal was enacted on 20 March 2016, it seems as if we have written almost once a week about the latest ‘threat’ from R...

We had intended to publish this yesterday, 7 October 2019, but as news broke of the Trump administration’s decision to ‘stand aside’ and ‘allow’ Turkey to en...

i. Turkey to be ‘allowed’ to enter/invade Northern Syria The US’ White House Press Spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham announced this morning (7 October 2019) that...

Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the governing Nea Dimokratia party, told the Greek parliament on Friday 4 October 2019 that: ‘We should a...

On 12 July this year, Greece’s new Labour and Social Affairs Minister Nikos Vroutsis cancelled a memo which had been designed to inform Municipalities and ot...

2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention Centre populations *B...

People who like to deal in political aphorisms will tell you that the first weeks a government spends in power are its most important. Though – like most suc...

In April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he has killed 1,000 peopl...

The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council does not exist. So,...

HUNDREDS of men, women and children in Greece are to be removed from their homes by the end of March. Thousands more are expected to follow later this year, ...

Having been working on the international humanitarian response to the Syrian Civil War – and its effects across the world – for several years, including at p...

More than 30,000 (30,138) people have arrived in Greece by sea since 1 January 2018: 254 more than arrived by sea in the whole of 2017. Although only 1,945 p...

In brief: More than 1,000 people arrived by sea to the Aegean islands this week; Vagiochori closes (officially on 2 November, but some people have been left w...