Greece New migrant centre opens on the Greek island of Samos Migrants have told Euronews conditions are better at the new facility but NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was "nothing more than a prison for people whose only crime is seeking safety". 23/09/2021
Europe News Nine months after fire, work still not started at Greek migrant camp The redevelopment of Moria camp was supposed to have been finished by now. 09/06/2021
Greece Greece extends COVID-19 vaccination campaign to migrants camps Athens has faced criticism for not including asylum-seekers earlier in its vaccination campaign. 02/06/2021
Albania Kosovo unveils memorial wall for wartime refugees The former Bllaca refugee camp, near the North Macedonian border, once hosted 440,000 people fleeing Serb repression. 11/04/2021
Greece Greek refugee programme offers alternative to overcrowded camps Greek refugee programme offers alternative to overcrowded camps 31/03/2021
no comment Ethiopian children attend school at refugee camp in Sudan At a refugee camp in Sudan, children sing together in a classroom built from wood and straw. 08/12/2020
France French police dismantle 2,000 strong migrant camp near Paris Authorities said the aim of the operation was to "guarantee the safety and health" of the 2,000 migrants but an NGO deplored that there were few social workers or mediators to assist. 17/11/2020
Greece Fire breaks out at refugee camp on Greek island of Samos Around fifteen tents have been destroyed by fire in a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, just three days after the region was hit by an earthquake. 02/11/2020
United Kingdom Shamima Begum: Court rules IS bride should return to UK A court has ruled that Begum "cannot play any meaningful part in her appeal" from the Syrian refugee camp where she is currently. 16/07/2020
Italy Migrant rescue ships return to the Mediterranean after lockdown As they return to the seas for the first time since April, rescue ship operators say migrants fleeing Libya's humanitarian crisis are undeterred by Europe's coronavirus outbreak 23/06/2020
View As coronavirus sweeps Europe, unaccompanied refugee children are becoming more vulnerable ǀ View As an American expat mother and volunteer working with refugee families, I didn’t think the situation for mother and child refugees could get much worse in Europe, but indeed it has. 04/05/2020
Greece Greece transfers almost 400 migrants from Lesbos island to mainland This is the first massive transfer of asylum seekers from Moria camp since the start of confinement imposed by the Greek government on March 23 to stem the spread of coronavirus. 03/05/2020
View Ignoring COVID-19 cases at Libya migrant centres will have dire consequences for Europe ǀ View Both individual countries like Italy and the EU overall will need to strike the political balance between the needs of their citizens and the humanitarian obligation to provide shelter for refugees and migrants. 16/04/2020
Europe News Europe must act to stop coronavirus outbreak in Lesbos, say MEPs NGOs and MEPs are calling on the EU to act to prevent an outbreak of novel coronavirus in overcrowded camps in Greece. 24/03/2020
no comment Heavy rain and cold weather hits migrants on Greek island of Lesbos Migrants and asylum seekers already endure "inhumane" living conditions on the Greek island of Lesbos. Now they've got heavy rain and cold weather to contend with, too. 13/12/2019
The Cube Greece to deport thousands of migrants after deadly fire | #TheCube At least one person was killed on Sunday when a blaze which broke out on Lesbos island, prompting fresh calls for government action. 01/10/2019
Good Morning Europe Angry protests at 'power keg' migrant camp over deadly fire Tensions are high after the blaze at the vast and overcrowded Moira camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos. 01/10/2019
View Two Years On: The Forgotten Side Of The Rohingya Crisis ǀ View Perhaps most desperate of all are the 128,000 Rohingya, more than half of them children, who have been confined since 2012 in the de facto detention camps. The camps are [...] under the control of Camp Management Committees that regulate every aspect of their lives, and dependent on aid handouts. 26/08/2019
The Cube Twitter reunites ex-refugee with kind stranger who gifted her a bike As a five-year-old, Mevan Babakar found herself living in a refugee camp in the Netherlands, and vividly recalls being gifted a bike by a camp worker. Years later, she took to Twitter to find him. 15/08/2019
no comment Children in Al-Hol camp 'in limbo amid dire humanitarian needs' The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned tens of thousands of children in Al-Hol camp and several parts of Syria are in limbo amid dire humanitarian needs. 18/07/2019
no comment Refugee camps hit by monsoons in Bangladesh Thousands of people have been displaced within the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh over the last few days after heavy monsoon rains started last Thursday (July 4) causing flooding and landslides. 11/07/2019
world news NGOs slam EU-Turkey refugee agreement as non-viable and ineffective The agreement between the EU and Turkey to control the flow of refugees has led to non-viable and ineffective policies and practices in Greece 18/03/2019
Europe News The Brief: Migrant camps in Greece, Tusk in Ukraine and CO2 emissions In this edition: We speak to a Greek minister about a report from the Council of Europe on the conditions in Greece's migrant camps. Donald Tusk reassures Ukraine over Europe's stance and the EU seeks to reduce CO2 emissions from trucks and buses by 2030. 20/02/2019
Europe News 'Inhuman and degrading': report criticises Greece's refugee The Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) raised concerns Tuesday over the "inhuman and degrading" conditions in Greece's refugee camps. It singles out the Fylakio camp near the Turkish border. 19/02/2019
Good Morning Europe Zaatari's children: poverty, conflict and displacement in refugee camp Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Syria and thousands of them have found refuge in Zaatari camp, Jordan. According to UNHCR, around 80,000 people live in Zaatari and more than half of them are children. 28/01/2019
Greece Inside Moria: Euronews takes you around Greece's biggest refugee camp More than 8,000 migrants — waiting for their asylum claims to be heard — live at Moria refugee camp, meant to hold 3,000-people. Now, with winter fast approaching, Euronews' Apostolos Staikos has taken a look at what life is like on the inside. 23/11/2018
