"This is a primarily refugee crisis, not only a migration phenomenon" (UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres)

79% of the Syrians and 44% of the Afghans polled had a secondary, high school or university degree (UNHCR)

As 300,000 cross Mediterranean this year, UNHCR calls for admission pathways for refugees and speedy relocation out of Italy and Greece

Cooperation Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reconstruction (Alternate Minister for Migration Policy) and UNHCR for provision of assistance to refugees

End of large scale pre-registration on mainland Greece

First group of thirty Syrian and Iraqi asylum-seekers relocated from Greece to Luxembourg. (UNHCR)

GREECE: UNHCR concerned at conditions in new refugee sites and urges that alternatives be found

Greek Asylum Service will start soon registration of asylum seekers residing in open reception facilities in the mainland with support by UNHCR and EASO

Greek Volunteers share UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award

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