GREECE:  Migrants Confined in Degradation
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ATHENS, Oct 17 (IPS) - "Conditions in the detention centre of Samos  are offensive to human dignity, and a violation of human rights;  it is a compromise of Greek status internationally."
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Near death after days at sea, the African illegal immigrants had made it to Europe, but were too weak to step down the ship's gangplank. The scene last week was appalling but familiar &#151; more emaciated arrivals among the thousands risking death to reach Italy's lengthy coastline and, from there, prosperity in Europe.
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A UN campaign launched in Greece is urging people living on the Mediterranean coast to stop treating the sea as a dustbin.
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ATHENS, Feb 1 (IPS) - Electra Floropoulou of the Lawyers Group for the  Rights of Refugees and Migrants was not expecting the police to  turn violent when she began taking photographs of the queue of  migrants outside the Athens Directorate for Foreigners.
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NEW YORK, Sep 12 (IPS) - The government of Libya routinely subjects  migrants, asylum seekers and refugees -- primarily from  sub-Saharan Africa -- to serious human rights abuses, including  beatings, arbitrary arrests, forced returns and in some cases,  torture, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released  Tuesday.
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Five illegal Afghan immigrants drowned in the freezing waters of the Aegean after the wooden vessel they were on board sank in heavy seas off Samos, Greece's semi-official Athens News Agency reported Sunday.
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Human rights groups accused the Greek Coast Guard on Monday of systematically trying to swamp the boats of refugees heading for Europe. Greece denied the allegations.
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The Greek government appealed for calm today, fearing a public backlash against immigrants following the bungled bus hijacking by two Albanian gunmen.
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Delvina da Costa complained of squalid conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she has lived for almost two years, but the prospect of returning to her old neighborhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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Three Greek islands, Samos, Lesbos and Chios, have become new fault lines for immigration into the European Union.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Thousands of Greeks threatened by towering walls of fire fled their homes on Monday as strong winds fanned blazes that have devastated the country and killed 63 people in four days.
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ROME Huge numbers of migrants from Africa have showed up in rickety boats on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the last few days, and the government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them back to Libya, almost immediately, by
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Elka Strojan and her  30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three  rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious  existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.
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BBC's Gabriel Partos looks at the initiative by central and south-east European countries to improve the living conditions of the Roma people.
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KRESTENA, Greece  - Greece's conservative government faced mounting criticism of incompetence on Tuesday as villagers fled fierce forest fires that have killed 63 people.
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Under pressure from Europe, Tripoli has taken steps to clamp down on illegal migration.
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POSTOJNA, Slovenia  - Elka Strojan and her 30-strong Roma Gypsy family, forced to swap a house for three rooms in a former army barracks, highlight the precarious existence in the Balkans of Europe's largest minority.