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  • UNHCR evacuated vulnerable refugees straight from Libya to Italy for the first time.
    highlight 22 Dec 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • UNHCR is calling on the Greek Government to continue easing pressure on Lesvos, Chios and Samos, by further shortening procedures for people eligible to move, and urgently improving conditions for those who continue to stay.
    highlight 22 Dec 2017 (6 years ago)
    Greece / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • Extremely vulnerable refugees must be evacuated from Libya as soon as possible. UNHCR is calling for 1,300 resettlement places by March 2018.
    highlight 11 Dec 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • The main objective of the "transit and departure facility" to be opened in Tripoli is to speed up the process of securing solutions in third countries, particularly for unaccompanied and separated children and women at risk.
    highlight 29 Nov 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • New UNHCR report shows the sea route to Greece has gained more traction, sea arrivals to Italy have reduced and migrants and refugees are using increasingly diversified journeys to reach Europe.
    highlight 24 Nov 2017 (6 years ago)
    Greece Italy / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • UNHCR urges EU Member States to promptly relocate all asylum-seekers eligible under the EU’s emergency relocation scheme and for it to continue beyond the two years originally planned.
    highlight 26 Sep 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • UNHCR has previously called for a review of the eligibility criteria and for the 75 percent protection rate threshold to be lowered, as this would allow for more people likely to be in need of international protection to be included.
    highlight 26 Sep 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called on Hungary to improve access for people seeking asylum and to do away with its so-called border “transit zones,” which he said are in effect detention centres.
    highlight 12 Sep 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • UNHCR calls for additional 40,000 resettlement places to be made available for refugees located in 15 priority countries along the Central Mediterranean route.
    highlight 11 Sep 2017 (6 years ago)
    / Various - Refugees/Migrants
  • The number of new arrivals in Greece's eastern Aegean islands, which accelerated in August, is putting pressure on overcrowded reception facilities and hampering efforts to improve conditions.
    highlight 08 Sep 2017 (6 years ago)
    Greece / Various - Refugees/Migrants