Archive for January, 2006
Via Balkan Human Rights
The Journalists Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) has written in support of Professor Alexiou, sentenced to 25 months in prison for heresy. See my post here for the full story.
Professor Alexiou, founder of the Greek Rumi Committee is condemned because this Committee is considered to be a “heresy”, which poses a […]
A letter to the editor from last weeks Athens News.
I HAVE lived in Greece for 20 years. I am an artist, musician, poet and actor. I have taken every legal path to legalise myself. I became a Christian Orthodox. I married a Greek, twice.
In 2002, I submitted my papers to renew my Green Card. At […]
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On my post “END HUMAN TRAFFICKING” Zardoz asked me whether there were any watchdog organisations in Greece dealing with trafficking. I answered:
“There are several non-governmental organisations working to end trafficking and helping the victims of this crime. However, there is always a problem with funding for these initiatives. I blogged about one such organisation, STOPNOW, […]
I am being lazy today on my blog. Apologies to you all but there isn’t much (relevent) news. I take that as a positive sign but maybe I’m just missing something? Or maybe the snow reports have made us all a little mad.
In the meantime, I have been busy making cutting edge video and […]
The international campaign to end human trafficking began in Athens on Monday. The focus being to urge the business community to participate fully in putting an end to trafficking. Forced labour is big business.
A new global report on forced labour by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) suggests that the illicit profits realized per year […]
I was asked by Sha to join in with this one. Oh, the life of a blogger.
10 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I once had a parrot called Pedro.
2. I wanted to be a professional swimmer.
3. I hate wearing high heels.
4. I eat Marmite straight from the […]
All this talk about what people are supposed to be like based on race and ethnicity got me thinking. Just an idea. For fun. WHO ARE YOU? In any way you feel like expressing it. If you feel like it.
This is me.
BEYOND MY SKIN
I am strange up and down moody and changeable. I am […]
Via the Athens News
The Greek government continues to deny that Pakistani men were illegally abducted and interrogated by intelligent agents following the London bombings. This after British officials admit they were present at the supposedly non-existent interrogations.
In their own words:
“The more the government tries to cover up, the more we fear for life today”
“I […]
This post relates to the the one yesterday entitled “SISTERS” on the subject of being silent.
When I was growing up (in a very white world I might add), it was common for people to call the chinese takeaway “the chinky”, the corner shop was the “paki shop” and black people were “nignogs” and “darkies”. If […]
I really laughed when I read the comments on a post by my loyal fan, ethnocentrist! (obviously not the racist comments which are just sad).
Chakil, scruffy american and anonymous are spreading love over there because, as anonymous put it, “you need more love in your lives”.
The blog is just more of the same “statistical […]
From Kathimerini
Max Frisch once said of his native Switzerland that it had “called for workers, and has been given human beings,” a saying that could also apply to Greece.
This article focuses on the murder of Edion Yahai, who was murdered on New Year’s Day because he was Albanian. Following the murder a rally […]
I post a lot less personal writing here than I used too. The rudeness and quite frankly, (yes, I know, I’m going to get blasted for this) racist content of some of the comments got to me. Personally. So I took a very big step away from it all. However, today I read this article […]
From Kathimerini
A new political party was officially formed in Greece yesterday with the sole purpose of representing the Roma or Gypsy community, claiming that it could garner more support than the Communist Party, which holds 12 seats in Parliament.
Heads of Greece’s Gypsy communities announced the creation of the ASPIDA party at an Athenian hotel, saying […]
At the start of every European Union Presidency, Amnesty International presents its observations of the EU’s human rights policies and recommends how they could be made more effective.
TEN POINTS FOR THE AUSTRIAN PRESIDENCY TO REAFFIRM
THE PRIMACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Enable the EU Fundamental Rights Agency to address human rights compliance by Member States.
2. Reaffirm the […]
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