Press & News
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UN Migration Agency Helps Nearly 100,000 Migrants Return and Reintegrate in 2016
12/7/2017
Read IOM Press Release here
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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.
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Mediterranean Update
31/5/2017
See the last updates on migration flows in Europe on IOM website http://migration.iom.int/europe/
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IOM’s survey on exploitative practices and trafficking
Read the Survey here
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ΙΟΜ: Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Top 43,000 in 2017; Deaths: 1089
Press Release
25/04/2017
IOM reports that 43,204 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 23 April, over 80 per cent arriving in Italy and the rest in Spain and Greece. This compares with 205,613 through the 19 April 2016.
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