GREEK
FORUM OF
MIGRANTS

On the occassion of recent main news in the election period, in Greece:

Read below the urgent appeal of humanitarian and human rights organizations for Carola Rackete:

Read below the message of the Greek Forum of Migrants for the World Refugee Day 2019:

On the World Refugee Day, Thursday 20 June 2019, the Greek Forum of Migrants participates and co-organises with other NGOs and institutions a celebration entitled: We Create Together – We Live Together at Kypseli Municipal Market:

On 4th of May 2019, at Victoria sq., we participated in the European May - Another Europe is in the Making: Athens, co-organised by Interalia, European Alternatives, European May, the Greek Forum of Migrants, Musikarama, The Syrian & Greek Youth Forum.

Read the announcement of the Greek Forum of Migrants - GFM, related to the elections of May 2019:

Read below the joint open letter cosigned by 15 organizations of the Civil Society, including the Greek Forum of Migrants, and written by NGO, concerning problems of the detention inappropriate facilites:

Διαβάστε παρακάτω την κοινή επιστολή 15 οργανώσεων την οποία συνυπογράφει και στηρίζει το Ελληνικό Φόρουμ Μεταναστών, και την οποία συνέταξε η οργάνωση Αίτημα, προς το Υπουργείο Προστασίας του Πολίτη και τον αρχηγό της ΕΛΑΣ, σχετικά με τα προβλήματα του συστήματος διοικητικής κράτησης παράτυπων μεταναστών και αιτούντων άσυλο.

The Greek Forum of Migrants along side tith the organizing committee of the Walk Against Discrimination, we launch the MAKE THEM ACT! campaign, in response to the rise of far right in whole Europe and the upcoming EU elections 2019. 

During preparations for Walk Against Discrimination 2019, a press conference took place at GFMs offices on Thursday 14th of March 2019.

On the International Women`s Day #IWD2019, an event will take place dedicated to the "Role of Woman".

The International Day Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, on Thursday 21st of March, the Greek Forum of Migrants, for a 5th year in a row, is calling for all groups that are currently being discriminated and affected by racism to raise their voices and to declare their determination to fight all kinds of racism and humiliation of human dignity. 

The launch of App4refs is a fact! The application that provides directions to basic needs and services in Athens, dedicated to migrants and refugees -newcomers in Athens.

A first draft of results from the Mapping of Migrant Communities in Greece, that is being held by the Greek Forum of Migrants, was presented for the first time in the discussion "Another Path to Integration", on the International Migrants Day 2018.

The first day of Integra Fest 2018 in pictures! 

This year, we celebrate! On the occasion of the International Migrants Day 2018, the Greek Forum of Migrants - GFM organizes "Integra Fest 2018 - Another Path to Integration". It is a four-day festival of events and actions, aiming to highlight the work of migrant communities and organizations in Greece, as well as the practices they follow for their integration into the Greek society.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, on Sunday 25th of November 2018, we talk about gender-based violence.

For a third year in a row, the Greek Forum of Migrants participates in the #FootballPeople action weeks of FARE network, and launches another Antiracist Football Tournament against racism and discrimination.

The Greek Forum of Migrants, welcomes the European Commission`s positive response to our call. Herbert Kickl has been, officially, excluded from the "EU High Level Group on combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance".

23 of July 2018. A deadly wildfire destroys a huge part of east Attica leaving behind almost a hundrend dead people, and thousands homeless, with lost fortunes and empty looks.

For a second year in a row, the Africacn Network in Greece in collaboration with other organisations, are organizing the African Fest 2018, on Saturday 21 July.

How many more lives must be lost? The Greek Forum of Migrants sends a message of memory on the World Refugee Day, 20 June 2018.

Since January 2018, the Greek Forum of Migrants is collaborating, with the Catalan Foundation ACSAR in the framework of UNINTEGRA PROJECT, a project developed and implemented by an European Consortium, operating under a Grant of the AMIF program.

A discussion with the greek Ministry for Migration Policy. 

At the beginning of the year, as the Greek Forum of Migrants, we met with the Deputy Minister of the Greek Ministry of Migration Policy, Mr. G. Balafas on his own initiative. As the Minister himself stated, the purpose of the meeting was to initialize "a continuous and systematic cooperation". 

The International Day Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, on 21 March, the Greek Forum of Migrants, for a 4th year in a row, is calling for all groups that are currently being discriminated and affected by racism to raise their voices and to declare their determination to fight all kinds of racism and humiliation of human dignity. Representatives from wider groups affected by racism (PWD, LGBT, Roma, migrants, refugees, HIV positive, elderly, drug addicts, mentally ill, religion minorities, etc.) united we will have the Walk Against Discrimination, marching together for a better world.

In the framework of the GFM`s communities mapping, through the hashtag #VoicetoCommunities,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY 2017

A boat symbolizes a lot. From a journey to the unknown to the hope for new roads and safe horizons. We dedicate today`s International Migrants Day to all migrants and refugees who have been struggling for so many years to sail with the "boat of integration" towards their future.

The African Network of Greece - ANG, with the collaboration of Greek Forum of Migrants has appealed to European Commision offices in Athens and the Italian embassy on Saturday 2 December 2017 in Syntagma sq., in response to the publication of video footage showing slave auctions of African refugees in Libya, to protest and march and shout NO SLAVES again in Africa.   

Abbas from Iraq, Saiyan from Syria and Zoi from Greece, reveal through their stories the exclusion and the lack of integration that migrants and refugees face everyday in Greece of 2017.