Matthew Sharpe teaches classical Greek and Roman philosophy at Deakin. ‘Perfect storm’ and ‘endless crisis’ are not phrases that easily come to mind as you sit atop the Areopagus Hill, just West of ...

This memorandum, submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the Committee) ahead of its upcoming review of Greece, highlights areas of concern Human Rights ...

(Athens) Greek police routinely lock up unaccompanied children in small, overcrowded, and unhygienic cells for weeks and months, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 27-page ...

The Greek crisis is like a volcano. It blows its top for a few weeks, then the fire and brimstone die down and everything goes quiet. But it is not extinct, merely dormant. There are persistent ...

Thermopylae, Greece – Akram al-Majidi lifted his left arm to show the skin disfigured by severe burns after a car bomb exploded outside his shop in Baghdad in 2008. The flesh, once on the outside of ...

The Elliniko camp, a few miles outside of Athens, sprawls across a complex of old airport buildings and derelict stadiums built for the 2004 Olympic Games. The venues that once hosted baseball and ...

With nearly 160,000 arrivals so far in 2016, Italy has received almost the same number of refugees as Greece this year, and by year’s end it may surpass Greece as Europe’s new focal point for refugee ...

Athens – Introducing modern art to a culture brought up on marble columns and the galloping friezes of the Parthenon would appear to be a daunting and thankless task, but Katerina Koskinas, the ...

Greece and Turkey bowed to EU pressure on Monday and engaged in their first direct talks in nearly five years over an explosive standoff about eastern Mediterranean borders and energy rights. The ...

Greece beat the Netherlands 2-1 in a fiery international friendly on Thursday, the last friendly for both teams before they start their FIFA 2018 World Cup qualification campaigns. Georginio Wijnaldum ...