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An 18-year-old woman, who was forced into prostitution in southern Turkey for years by her own parents, has been saved with the help of a women's rights NGO and the Family and Social Policies Ministry.

NGO pro-refugee solidarity groups at the port of Piraeus are obstructing the orderly departure of refugees and migrants to the hotspot of Skaramanga, by attempting to take control of the procedures.

192 mainly Syrian refugees who arrived on Crete, near Palaiochora, on the night of May 12, 2015, were packed into a gym after they were saved. The refugees state that the police authorities marked registration numbers on their arms while they were asleep. Representatives from NGOs state that this is a common practice when there are massive arrivals on the island.

BELGRADE - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier came to Belgrade with the positive message that Berlin is an advocate of further EU enlargement, says the president of the NGO Centre for Foreign Policy Aleksandra Joksimovic.

Journalists, NGO activists and some former politicians joined the gesture of support for the journalist Borjan Jovanovski after a funeral wreath sent by an anonymous person arrived at his family home.

In a symbolic protest, the journalists delivered their own funeral wreath to the government, inscribed with the same words: "Final Greetings".

The non-governmental organization Save Sofia has sent a signal to Brussels on account of low quality renovation works in Bulgaria's capital. The project was executed in the Sofia municipality with EU funds.

The reconstruction procedure along Bulgaria Blvd's railway cost approximately BGN 7 M no VAT included.

On his first visit to Macedonia, the EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood policy and Enlargement negotiations, Johannes Hahn said opposition claims about government surveillance of thousands of citizens need investigating.  

BIRN Serbia and Human Right House organised the first in a series of debates on media freedom on Thursday in Belgrade's Media Centre.

Macedonia's main ruling party, VMRO DPMNE, has dismissed opposition allegations of conducting widespread wiretapping as nonsensical and contradictory, calling the Social Democratic Party leader, Zoran Zaev, "a puppet of foreign services".

Top politicians, opposition leaders, NGO activists, journalists, businessmen, top academics, religious leaders and members of the judiciary have been subjected to widespread surveillance ordered by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and secret police chief Saso Mijalkov, the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, claimed on Monday.