Via Human Rights Watch France, the UK, and the rest of Europe act as if everything is perfectly fine in Greece. But Greece denies 99.5 percent of all asylum claims, has recently eliminated its appeals procedure, and detains migrants in deplorable conditions. Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch France: Don’t Return Calais [...]
Via Athens Plus Are Greeks racist? It’s a simple question but it does not have a simple answer. Twenty years ago, when Greece was a monolithic society, in which 97 percent of the population called itself both Greek and Orthodox, the question would have been met with a unanimous “No!” That was before a million [...]
There was another anti-immigrant gathering in Aghios Panteleimonas square in Athens yesterday. There were the typical “concerned” citizens spouting their usual “We are not racists but…” and a very vocal group of neo-nazis chanting “Foreigners out of Greece” and “Greece for Greeks”. I really want to say something eloquent and intelligent to the racists but [...]
Via IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange) Publisher convicted of slandering GHM spokesperson (GHM/IFEX) 9 September 2009 Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) today announces that the Athens First Five-Member Appeals Court (President: Vassileios Kapelouzos – Members: Eleni Metzidaki – Sofia Oikonomou – Ekaterini Nomikou – Ioannis Magginas) has convicted Dimitris Zafeiropoulos, publisher and managing director of [...]
Via Athens Plus [Athens Plus is only available for download. Link at the end of the article] Immigrants fill gap as Greeks opt out of grazing lifestyle As family shepherd units dwindle, bureaucracy hinders short-staffed livestock breeders BY STAVROS TZIMAS About 130,000 families still graze their herds on Greece’s rugged mountains but in very few [...]
I just came across this personal story about “Being Gay in Greece” published on the American Chronicle. One of the hardest thing about being gay in Greece is the widespread homophobia. I’ve experienced it in school, in the workplace, in the military. You see, to much of the world homosexuality is accepted as something you [...]
Press release from the Greek Helsinki Monitor 31 August 2009 Greece: UN recommendations on minorities, Roma, racist organizations and media, and asylum seekers The cooperating NGOs Minority Rights Group-Greece (MRG-G) and Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) welcome the Concluding Observations on Greece of the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) that were [...]
A first-hand account of what is happening at the Pagani detention centre in Lesvos. The picture on the site of the children hugging their dad through the bars is heartbreaking. Via Doctors without Borders Ioanna Kotsioni works as the Deputy Head of Mission for the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project providing assistance to [...]
Via Kathimerini The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) yesterday issued a statement alleging that groups linked to the extreme right-wing Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) have been attacking immigrants in the Aghios Panteleimonas district of central Athens over the past week. According to SYRIZA, the groups have been patrolling the area at night and have [...]
Via the Bangkok Post Panathinaikos striker Djibril Cisse on Monday threatened to report Greek fans to European football governing body UEFA following racist insults he received in a friendly in northern Greece at the weekend. Panathinaikos striker Djibril Cisse, on Monday threatened to report Greek fans to European football governing body UEFA following racist insults [...]
Officially summer is over and people here wish each other a Happy Winter. I love this time of year. It’s still hot and those fantastic storms bring much needed rain. To celebrate my favorite month, I am offering this Open Thread. What’s on your mind? What are you planning ? What’s new in your life [...]
Via Kathimerini The Interior Ministry yesterday vowed to boost funding and recruitment at several migrant reception centers on the country’s land and sea borders with Turkey, where overcrowding has created serious tensions prompting protests and hunger strikes by detainees. Officials from the local authorities on the eastern Aegean islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos and [...]
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