Archive for December, 2007
Spare a thought this Christmas while you are enjoying all the good things in life, for the Roma of Votanikos who I have blogged about for the past two years.
From the Greek Helsinki Monitor
Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) cannot send this year holiday wishes. It cannot even celebrate them, as, on the eve of Christmas, it […]
I am starting my blog break from today. I’m off to do some last minute panic shopping (I love it really) I’ll be doing lots of cooking, a great pastime for keeping warm in our unheated house. I’ll be flopping around looking terribly glamourous in my twenty five layers of jumpers and socks topped off […]
From the Greek Helsini Monitor.
European Court of Human Rights rules that Greece violated prohibition of torture and of discrimination in injury of pregnant Romni. Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) expresses great satisfaction on the 6 December 2007 European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) unanimous conviction of Greece in the case of Fani-Yannula Petropoulou-Tsakiris.
Principle facts
The applicant, Fani-Yannula […]
I almost forgot… I probably won’t be at DD live tonight but feel free to chat without me. Sorry no image today. For some reason Firefox can’t find my dashboard and Safari won’t let me post my picture.
See you later if I make it.
Cartoonist 2 by deviousdiva on March 30th, 2007City Streets by deviousdiva […]
I am posting this article from the Athens News by Kathy Tzilivakis in full.
‘Sorry, it’s been taken’ is what most foreigners in Athens are told when they ring to inquire about a rental ad in the newspaper. Based on a year-long survey, easily identifiable characteristics such as a heavy accent tend to increase the chances […]
From Reuters
Could this happen anywhere else ?
A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece’s congested capital.
“I could not get past the vehicle, a four-wheel drive, which had been parked right on the pavement so I got angry and just walked […]
It is always heartwarming to hear about people who are working in their own way to initiate change for the better. A Greek Orthodox priest and a Muslim imam are working together to promote inter-faith solidarity. Father Timotheos Anthis and Imam Munir Mahmood are holding a series of public meeting around Athens where local residents […]
Another horrifying example of the failure of the authorities in protecting children from abuse. There had been several complaints about the sexual abuse of three children over the past four years but no-one did anything. Their mother who was using them as sex slaves was finally taken to court in April and denied custody of […]
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Yesterday, the kid fractured his leg. Yep, he’ll be in plaster for a month or so. He’s got the crutches which he thinks is cool today but we’ll see how goes once he’s bored with the hipness. The doctors have said that we need to be really careful with this particular type of fracture because […]
Today is International Migrants Day
Via UNESCO
It is estimated that some 200 million people live outside of their home countries. And this is not a new phenomenon: Europe, America, and Australia were all built on the influx of millions of people in search of a better life. Since 2000, the international community has designated 18th of […]
This article appeared in Kathemerini shortly after the racist attacks I wrote about here and here. This was written by a Greek journalist not a “foreigner who likes stirring up trouble where there isn’t any”
The monster begins to resemble us
By P. Mandravelis
We were all shocked when we learned about a neo-Nazi group attacking immigrants in […]
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A short while ago I wrote about anti-semite and holocaust denier Kostas Plevris who was taken to court over his book “Jews: the Whole Truth”. The post sparked a long discussion that turned into a (mainly) anti-immigration thread. This was unfortunate because it was an historic trial for Greece, the first to be tried […]
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