Refugee camp

 French authorities evacuated hundreds of migrants from a wood on the northern coast near Calais on Tuesday over fears it could become a magnet for others hoping to head to Britain, The Local reported.

The first refugee center of restricted type is ready and will become operational once it is furnished. This is the transit center in the village of Pastrogor. Turning it into a prison where only people who have committed a violation of the internal order will cost nearly BGN 2 million, bTV said. Its capacity is 300 people but is currently empty.

EU Minister Ömer Çelik on Aug. 10 criticized Europe for creating barriers against asylum seekers instead of welcoming them.  

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Farhad Noory, whose family fled Afghanistan two years ago and whose artistic talent was noticed at a refugee camp in Serbia, held his first exhibition this week at Belgrade's Café Slow.

More than 850,000 refugees will receive special debit cards by August financed by the European Union and implemented by the Turkish Red Crescent, according to European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) in Turkey.        

Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Saturday, ECHO head Jane Lewis said the target was to access over a million refugees by September.        

A refugee speaks on his phone inside his shelter that stands next to a fishing boat near the Souda refugee camp, on Chios island, in a picture made available Tuesday.

Refugee women, disabled people and children marched on the national highway of Ioannina in protest against the conditions present at the refugee camp of Agia Eleni were they are being hosted at. They claim the situation is so bad that some of the rooms are even infested with scorpions.

It's not the developed Western nations, but the Asian countries, which have welcomed most foreign refugees in recent times. The University of Southern California has prepared a report according to which Pakistan, Iran and Turkey have accommodated a huge number of refugees since 1945.

Sewage ends up between tents and pours into the sea, while just a few centimetres away dozens of rats come out of the sewer moving among migrant tents. These are some of the images of the atrocious living conditions the refugees and illegal migrants are living in at the a beach on the island of Chios.

Amnesty International has made an urgent appeal for the shutdown of the Elliniko migrant and refugee camp on Athens's southern coast and is calling for the transfer of its 1,200 occupants to alternative shelters.

The rights organization is decrying appalling living conditions at the facility and says that women and underage girls live in constant fear of sexual and verbal abuse.