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KOSOVO: Ten Years On, Forensics Continues to ID Missing

KOSOVO: SARAJEVO, Nov 19 (IPS) - Pictures of missing people have been hanging for years next to the gate to the fence surrounding Kosovos parliament. Some of them have been there for so long that the features of the faces can hardly be ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: NATO,  Alan Robinson,  European Union

GREECE: New Leaders May Not Bring New Answers

GREECE: ATHENS, Sep 24 (IPS) - The call for snap elections on Oct 2, about two years earlier than the end of the government's mandate surprised no one in Greece. They were in fact overdue given the political bankruptcy of the government of ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Karolos Papoulias,  Standard Poor's

GREECE: Zero Tolerance, Zero Concern

GREECE: ATHENS, Jul 30 (IPS) - Increasing evidence has surfaced that a zero tolerance policy is denying due protection to people fleeing hardship, and condemning them to degrading treatment. Large numbers of people arrested on the naval ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  30 Jul 2009

MIGRATION: Abandoned Between Two States

MIGRATION: IZMIR, Turkey, Jul 29 (IPS) - Isabelle Caillol, an activist with the Turkish branch of the human rights advocacy group Helsinki Citizens Assembly, sent a mass email to pro-migrant activists in Greece in May seeking help to find ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  29 Jul 2009

MIGRATION: Tricky Gateway to a European Dream

MIGRATION: IZMIR, Turkey, Jul 16 (IPS) - Izmir has for years been luring migrants and refugees who dream of crossing into Europe. But that is not always obvious in this city of three million situated on the Turkish Aegean coast 329 km ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

GREECE: New Laws Being Rushed in Against Migrants

GREECE: ATHENS, Jun 23 (IPS) - Following a big defeat in the European parliament elections, the right-wing New Democracy (ND) government is cracking down on irregular migration to counter the far right. The moves come after the far right ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  23 Jun 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  United Nations

RIGHTS: Greece Cannot Take Very Much More

RIGHTS: Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Jun 1 (IPS) - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres has asked the European Commission to call a meeting between the agency and countries around the Mediterranean to ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  1 Jun 2009
Related Topics: European Commission,  United Nations,  European Union

GREECE: Showdown With Muslims Building Up

GREECE: ATHENS, May 28 (IPS) - Fears have arisen for peace in Athens ahead of a large Muslim demonstration planned for Friday May 29. The demonstration has been called following rioting last week. Serious riots erupted in the Athens city ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  28 May 2009

GREECE: State Itself Becoming Xenophobic

GREECE: ATHENS, May 18 (IPS) - "I can see migrants are the source of many problems," says Maria Nafpliotou, an employee at a music store in the city centre. "Nobody is happy to see them living around here, but I doubt slaying them is a ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  18 May 2009
Related Topics: European Union

GREECE: Financial Crisis Multiplies Migrant Miseries

GREECE: ATHENS, May 6 (IPS) - The economic crisis is hitting migrants harder than most other people, and it looks set to get worse for them. With close to zero growth rate and a constant upward revision of the budget deficit, Greece is ...

From APOSTOLIS FOTIADIS, Inter Press Service,  6 May 2009

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