From The Advocate A lesbian pair will be the first same-sex couple to marry in a Greek civil ceremony next week, taking advantage of a loophole in a 1982 law that fails to specify gender for civil unions. The couple will be married by the mayor of the Kessariani quarter of Athens, who belongs to [...]
Don’t forget. Tonight is DD Live. I’m back at the Chatzy room because it seems more friendly. Please look under DD Live if you would like to join us. Kick off your shoes, get yourselves a diet coke (!), beer, glass of wine, coffee or cup of tea and let’s chat. Check in here if [...]
Each year I have hesitated before posting the State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Greece. Why ? Because of the standard comments I get for doing so. I know what they will be (these are real comments). Whats the use of this report? Haven’t we had enough of hypocrisy by the US [...]
From Brabantfeatures (BBC correspondent in Athens) Greek police and security officials broke up a demonstration by a group of Tibetans,protesting that their athletes are banned from this summer’s Beijing Olympic Games in China. The Tibetans attempted to light a symbolic torch, but were manhandled away from the archaeological site at Ancient Olympia in Southern Greece. [...]
From the EU Observer A Swedish court has decided not to extradite an Iraqi man to Greece on the grounds that he might not recieve proper treatment here. This is the third country in recent weeks, that has gone against the Dublin agreement under which asylum seekers can be returned to the European country where [...]
I added Google Translate to the sidebar (for some strange reason it keeps appearing in different places) and I was wondering how accurate it is. Obviously, an automated translating widget thingy is not going to be 100% but I looked at a couple of posts translated into Greek and it certainly seems better than others [...]
I am not a fan of fishing and don’t really understand the joys of this hobby/sport/pastime but did you know that in Greece, you cannot get a fishing permit if you are American, Canadian, Australian, Albanian or a non-European Union national (including tourists and permanent residents) ? Genci Hoxha, who is from Albania but has [...]
From the Greek Helsinki Monitor: The publisher Dimitrios Zafeiropoulos, editor Theodoros Georgiou (tried in abstentia) and columnist Theodoros Hatzigogos of the far-right weekly newspaper Eleftheros Kosmos were convicted of antisemitism yesterday. They were found guilty for the violation of anti-racism Law 927/79 because in a 12 March 2006 text, “with undoubtedly offensive phrases, on the [...]
My friend Bollybotton at My Big Fat Greek Life had a fabulous idea for Women’s Day this year. I had fully intended to do it on the actual day but somehow it slipped my mind. Hope at Hope Dies Last also took up the challenge. Both of them wrote wonderful and inspiring lists of what [...]
The Guardian has just published its list of The World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs. The usual suspects are all there but I am very pleased to announce that two of my top 50 list also made it. Well done to The F Word Founded in 2001, the UK’s first feminist webzine is responsible for reviving [...]
Last week, I wrote about the fact that there is still no crematorium in Athens (the only European capital city without one), two years after permission was granted. Today I read in Kathimerini that the go ahead has also been given for a Muslim cemetery. It should be noted that it might be some time [...]
One of my favorite fellow bloggers, Chris Clarke has a book out ! He is a great writer and I am 100% positive that this will be a moving and uplifting read. I only followed the final year of Zeke’s life but I came to know him in a way no other writer has made [...]
From the Athens News After Norway, Germany could become the next European country to suspend the return of all asylum-seekers to Greece on the grounds that their rights may be violated. It has already suspended the return of unaccompanied minors to Greece. Greece has the lowest asylum recognition rate in Europe at less than 1%. [...]
From Spero News The government is poised to bolster the legal framework surrounding blogs after an investigation was launched regarding the alleged blackmail of journalists by colleagues through the popular blogspot press-gr. Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos confirmed that the justice ministry is working on amending an existing law (#1187) that grants people the right to [...]
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