The European Union (EU) is currently experiencing a migration flux reflecting 2016 levels, recording 330,000 new arrivals last year with no sign of decline. Meanwhile, EU countries have continuously...

Greece wants to escalate the return of migrants to Turkey dramatically in the coming weeks under a European Union deal with Ankara, according to the Greek migration minister Panos...

The random crackdown and the sexualised way in which it occurs, is intended to threaten the volunteers - predominantly women.

On Tuesday, the European Union gave Greece two weeks to "tighten its borders" and finalise a plan for the spending of the €700 million allocated in response to the...

In the wake of the recent influx of refugees, the Danish government has been peddling right-wing propaganda, calling refugees '"welfare-shoppers" or potential terror threats in order to instil xenophobia...

At dawn today, the first 136 people, mainly Pakistanis, were deported to Turkey from Lesvos in Greece. To the sound of volunteers, aid workers and activists shouting about the...

Today at Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos, the asylum system is on its knees; deportations have halted all processes of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO),...

The situation in Idomeni in Greece is worsening by the hour as desperation mounts over inhumane European border policies. People are fighting amongst themselves and against the police. Some...

Refugees in Moria on the island of Lesvos are now being relocated to mainland Greece in preparation for their deportation, having been stuck for weeks since the closure of...

I am talking to Muhammad* from Iraq; a father of two, he lost a third child on the way to Lesbos on board a dangerous rubber dinghy. He is...

Depending on the situation at the border with Macedonia, there could soon be thousands of people stranded on the Greek island of Lesvos. It was chaos in August and...

Danish politics is facing potentially radical changes. Not only has Denmark ruined its humanitarian socialist image of welfare and equality, but it has also seen numerous prominent politicians moving...

The daily updates I receive from volunteers working in Calais and on the Greek islands of Lesvos and Chios are heart-breaking. As I sat to write this, a volunteer...

The condition of migrants and refugees in Britain was debated critically at an evening seminar at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) last week. The British...

The public debates on Denmark's newly-approved asylum policies are red hot. One of the new economic moves to curb asylum "pressure" is a controversial plan to strip refugees of...

The Lebanese people are facing testing times, struggling with constant threats from terror groups and suffering attacks from Daesh/ISIS, some of which were experienced last week in the Hezbollah...

the West bankWorking in Palestine Signe Smidt discovered during her runs, how movement was restricted by the wall and several check-points, a symptom of the country's political stalemate. This...

Since 2010, when M landed in England after a long and life-threatening journey from Palestine, he has been passed around in the legal arena. The responsibility for his situation...

At the entrance to the "Jungle" refugee camp in Calais on Monday morning, around 400 people had "over-spilled" the borders of their designated plot of "no man's land" and...

The UK has more than 30,000 migrants and asylum-seekers who are currently being detained indefinitely whilst their immigration status is resolved. This can take months or even years, leaving...

Last Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people all over Europe gathered outside their respective parliaments to demand policies that reflected the people's solidarity with Syrian refugees. After four years...

Tens of thousands of protesters all over the world were on the streets at the weekend in support of the people of Lebanon and their anti-government demonstrations. From London...

Tens of thousands of protesters have joined the "You Stink" campaign to push the Lebanese government to take action to solve a towering waste management problem. The grievances are...

In times when Europeans are experiencing a political shift to the right, immigrants are haunted by legacies of neo-imperial, economic exploitation as well as the long-term effects of the...

An important event took place at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) on Wednesday. As people sat wiping their tears, Norway's Dr Mads Gilbert took us...

A new report from the investigative journalism team at DanWatch gives more disturbing evidence of Danish businesses helping to keep the wheels of Israel's military occupation of Palestine turning....

Last Thursday, one of Denmark's biggest newspapers, Politiken, published an article which described the occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel. Despite the picturesque nomenclature on the Dead Sea...

"Beyond Sunnis and Shiites, understanding the violent reconfiguration of citizen, sect, tribe and states in the Arab World", held on 21 January 2015 at the Mosaic Rooms, London. A...

Thousands of Syrian refugees are risking their lives to enterEurope as asylum seekers, but what awaits them are a range ofinformal and inadequate procedures, some of which only have...

The steps you have to climb to reach the Syrian women's workshop are narrow and crammed with people politely edging their way around each other. Women and children flock...

ISIS delivered a video of the captured Lebanese soldiers to Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam today, following last week's bloody clashes in the Lebanese border town Arsal. Militants of...

Christopher Gunness is the public face of UNRWA, the UN agency dedicated to the plight of Palestinian refugees. He talked to MEMO about the innocent thousands who have been...