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A woman holds a young boy whose face bears signs of distress, near the town of Gevgelija, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, on the border with Greece.

UN refugee agency concerned by violence at Greek border, calls for improved security

3 December 2015

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Children and their parents arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region.

Flow of refugee and migrant children into Greece doubles, UN agencies report

1 December 2015

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UN High Commissioner for refugees António Guterres sits among two young boys from Syria who are playing with a Playstation in the Moria Identification Centre, Lesvos, Greece.

Top UN refugee official thanks Greece and frontline islands for improved response to continued arrivals

12 October 2015

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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session.

Future of Europe cannot be built on ‘ever-higher walls,’ Greek Prime Minister tells UN

1 October 2015

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom meets a little girl during a visit to a refugee and migrant reception centre near Gevgelija in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, at the border with Greece.

UNICEF advocate Orlando Bloom urges protection of refugee and migrant children

29 September 2015

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A woman carrying a child under a blanket walks on a muddy path in the southern Serbian town of Preševo, on the border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

UNICEF launches new appeal to support refugee and migrant children in Europe

25 September 2015

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Near the town of Gevgelija, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, a young Syrian girl holds the hand of an adult waiting to board a train to the Serbian border.

UN calls for full, swift implementation of European proposals for refugee crisis

11 September 2015

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A child looks out of the window of a train near Gevgelija, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Families seeking refuge from conflict in their homelands are traveling by train from Gevgelija to the border with Serbia, after crossing the border with Greece.

In phone calls on migration crisis, Ban urges European leaders to 'be voice of those in need of protection'

6 September 2015

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A group of asylum-seekers waiting at a reception centre to be registered for a temporary transit visa, near the town of Gevgelija in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) after crossing the border from Idomeni in Greece, on 27 August 2015.

UN urges Europe to admit 200,000 refugees from Syria, Iraq and other war zones

4 September 2015

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Lamar, 4, has travelled with her mother for just over 2 months from Syria to the Gevgelija border crossing, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, heading to Germany to reunite with her father, who reached there 4 months ago.

Some 3,000 asylum-seekers now pass through former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia daily – UNICEF

1 September 2015

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