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 published on [...]
Please don’t forget that Rescue in Athens is tomorrow (Saturday 25th April).
What:
The Rescue is an international movement to acknowledge the consequences of 22-years of war in Northern Uganda: 3,000 child soldiers, +1.5 million Ugandans displaced in camps, hundreds dying each week of starvation, thirst, disease and violence.
The movement has people all over the world (10 [...]
The Rescue in Athens campaign is in full swing. Amber (organiser and activist extraordinaire) is working flat out to make it a success. If you would like to help in any way, please contact her here.
Right now, I am putting together “The Rescue Pack, Athens” which is a complete guide to everything The Rescue in [...]
UPDATE: 12 days to go…
Please take a moment to Commit to the Rescue
Please see the Facebook page for this event
We need some serious help… Right now, there are 16 people committed to attending this event according to facebook. If we make it to 30 people – each one of us will represent 100 child soldiers [...]
I wonder if any of you can check some documents for The Rescue in Athens action. I have the documents in English with a Greek translation that needs looking at. Please email me if you have the time to take a look.
Thank you.
Don’t forget Earth Hour 2009 on Saturday 28th March. Switch off your lights and (as many appliances as you can) at 8.30pm until 9.30pm your local time wherever you are in the world. I am looking forward to Athens going dark.
Greece had yesterday overtaken countless other countries taking part in next Saturday’s Earth Hour, a [...]
I thought you might be interested to know that THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY has been included in the Top 50 Human Rights Blogs on the e-Justice. The list is a good resource for other human rights bloggers and organisations. Just to point out a few that I know and some that are new to [...]
Today is World Aids Day
From Avert, an international Aids charity based in the UK.
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before [...]
Quaker Dave has the cutest Friday Peace Blogging pictures up on his site. Go and see them and don’t forget to send in your own photos.
UPDATE: Teacher Dude posted about this at Now Public where it has gained much interest (and disbelief) from readers.
Following on from my post yesterday, I want to point out that what is happening to me (threats from nationalists and obnoxious comments) is nothing compared to what is happening to Panayote Dimitras from the Greek Helsinki [...]
My friend, Quaker Dave, has a great project over at his blog. It’s called Friday Peace Blogging and features a series of photographs of fellow bloggers “doing the peace sign”. Why not send in yours ? I have the pleasure of being included in the latest batch.
Technorati Tags: peace, blogging, bloggers, activism
I am in the process of writing the petition for the campaign. Please read what I have so far and tell me what you think. I have never done this before and would really appreciate any advice you can offer.
We, the undersigned, urge the leaders of Greece and the EU to respond to the current [...]
Please take a look at the “Less than 1%” campaign that I am hoping to have up and running by the end of Spetember. Any ideas, help or advice would be much appreciated. I’m going to “sticky” this post until we are up and running.
Thank you to everyone who has already offered help and resources. [...]
Photographer Oliver Jobard was arrested in Patras while he was covering the story below about Afghan refugees in the port.
Via Reporters without Borders
French photographer Olivier Jobard of the Sipa Press agency was arrested and beaten by a coastguard officer on 4 July while taking photos in the port of Patras, in northern Peloponnese, for a [...]
Teacher Dude has a post up today on The Voice of the Socially Excluded conference in Thessaloniki.
However, the most heartrending moments were delivered by Alexandros Karasiadis, a member of a team of Greek lawyers and human rights activists who have been investigating what can only be termed Greece’s hidden gulag in which asylum seekers [...]
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