Koraki

There are at least 17,951 people who were registered as refugees and/or made an application for asylum, in Greece, from 1 January-18 October this year, currently missing from the UN and Greek government’s data on the refugee situation in the state. First, a quick note. Many of you had received these updates on a regular basis last year, which ended when we suffered a data loss. We did offer an update on 28 April, but since then, we have been engaged in a number of specific pr

Thessaloniki, 28 April Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 26 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 4,613. Total arrivals since 3 April: 1,728. Chios, 653. Total arrivals since 3 April: 413. Samos, 1,577. Total arrivals since 3 April: 148. Leros, 110. Total arrivals since 3 April: 0. Kos, 573. Total arrivals since 3 April: 62. Tilos, 0. Total arrivals since 3 April: 0. Kastellorizo, 27. Total arrivals since 3 April: 0. Rhodes, 31. Total arrivals since 3 April: 16 Other is

Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 4 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 3,079. Total arrivals since 30 March: 351. Chios, 397. Total arrivals since 30 March: 220. Samos, 1,429. Total arrivals since 30 March: 376. Leros, 110. Total arrivals since 30 March: 1. Kos, 553. Total arrivals since 30 March: 511. Tilos, 0. Total arrivals since 30 March: 0. Kastellorizo, 27. Total arrivals since 30 March: 0. Rhodes, 15. Total arrivals since 30 March: 7 Other islands, 242. Total

Human Rights Watch warns that the Greek government is failing to provide protection to women and girls in the Aegean detention centres, leaving them exposed to harassment, threats of gender-based violence and health risks. Its report also highlighted insufficient security, poor hygiene and sanitation facilities, and failures in the system to identify and address the needs of vulnerable people. Hillary Margolis, HRW’s women’s rights researcher, said: ‘There is no excuse for fa

Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas admits Greece is finding the refugee situation ‘more difficult to manage’ as numbers of refugees crossing the Aegean have increased in the last two months. He described the situation at Chios as ‘bad’ and Lesvos as ‘very bad’ (as the overcrowding at Leros is worse than at Chios, and at Samos more than twice as bad* as Lesvos, it would be interesting to see where he believes the two fit on that ‘scale’). It certainly is true