Press & News
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UN Migration Director General Calls for Smooth Continuation, Full Participation in EU Relocation Programme
26/09/2017
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IOM Report: Fatal Journeys, Volume 3, Improving Data on Missing Migrants
20/09/2017
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Over 38,000 Migrants Assisted with Voluntary Return by UN Migration Agency in First Half of 2017
21/08/2017
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Hellenic Red Cross Opens New Accommodation Center for Unaccompanied Minors in Athens
21/08/2017
Press Release
The Hellenic Red Cross, in the framework of the programme for the accommodation of Unaccompanied Minors, opened a new Accommodation Center in Athens, aimed at providing secure accommodation to unaccompanied minors.
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Renovation of the Accommodation Facility of UAMs in Nea Iraklitsa, Kavala by IOM Greece
09/08/2017
Press Release
The children’s protection organization, “The Smile of the Child”, has opened a Home of Care for all children, regardless of ethnicity, religion or any other criterion, at risk of abuse and in need of a safe living environment in Nea Iraklitsa, Kavala.
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UN Migration Agency Helps Nearly 100,000 Migrants Return and Reintegrate in 2016
12/7/2017
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Opening of two accommodation facilities for migrants and refugees in northern Greece
13/06/2017
Press Release
Greece - Two fully renovated accommodation facilities located in Serres and Drama, in northern Greece have opened their doors, providing shelter to more than 1000 migrants and refugees.
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IOM-SOAM Closing Event
09/06/2017
Press Release
On Friday, June 9th 2017, the closing event of SOAM Programme – namely Supporting Organizations that Assist Migrant asylum seeking population in Greece – took place in Athens, at the “B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music”.
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IOM Information Campaign on the islands of Leros
06/06/2017
Press release
On Thursday, June 8, the Chief of IOM Mission in Greece, Daniel Esdras, accompanied by members of the Greek Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) will travel to Leros Island, in the context of the program "The implementation of assisted voluntary returns including reintegration measures."
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IOM Greece at Elliniko camp
Athens, 2/6/2017
Press Release
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is present at Elliniko camp in Athens, to support the Ministry of Migration Policy in the voluntary evacuation of the unofficial site, where approximately 600 migrants and refugees -the vast majority of them Afghans- have been living for the last months.