The central event of Athens Pride will take place on Kotzia Square, opposite Athens Town Hall, on Saturday. The change from the traditional venue of Syntagma Square was necessitated by the presence of a party election pavilion on the central square.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Turkish authorities have arrested and imprisoned a 16-year-old teenager for adding a mustache to an election campaign poster featuring President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as reported by AFP citing local media.
A prominent humanitarian group on Thursday blasted Greece over its treatment of asylum-seekers on the island of Lesvos, repeating allegations of illegal deportations back to Turkey and claiming authorities are using hunger as a weapon against some migrants.
President Tayyip Erdogan’s opponents say they will repair the damage done to human rights during his rule, promising a new era for democracy and freedoms if he loses power in an election on Sunday.
On May 1, as workers in many parts of the world enjoy a day off, Google’s latest Doodle celebrates the history of Labor Day, also known as International Workers’ Day.
Lale Alatli fell in love with Greece through rebetiko music. She listened to it with her Greek fellow students while they were studying in Italy.
The Hellenic Union for Human and Civil Rights (ELEDAP) sent an open letter to Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos regarding reports of police violence during demonstrations following the train crash at Tempe on February 28.
SYRIZA press spokeswoman Popi Tsapanidou has taken aim at the government over a recent US State Department report on the human rights situation in Greece.
The Turkish government has come under fire from Human Rights Watch (HRW) for aggressively repressing dissent and political opponents, imposing censorship and imprisoning people in the runup to the presidential elections.
The European Commission said on Thursday it would hold back all 22 billion euros of EU cohesion funds for Hungary until its government meets conditions related to judiciary independence, academic freedoms, LGBTQI rights and the asylum system.
A whopping 82% of teenagers and young people say that they have witnessed a violation of another child’s rights, while only a small number of youngsters are sufficiently informed about their rights, as stated in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, a poll for UNICEF Greece showed.
A two-day international mayors’ conference aimed at combating antisemitism kicked off in Athens on Wednesday evening.
More than 25 mayors and dozens of local government officials from around the world will convene in Athens on Wednesday to share their ideas and proposals to combat hate, bigotry and antisemitism.
Barely a month after taking office as the United Nations’ new human rights chief, Volker Türk was in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region last week meeting victims of a conflict that has displaced millions.
Nine months since the war in Ukraine began, we are increasingly reading reports of alleged war crimes, including sexual violence against women and girls. Sadly, history is repeating itself.
The Embassy of Canada in Greece on Thursday said that it will be joining International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by lighting up its chancery in orange, the official color of the United Nations’ campaign for raising awareness about gender-based violence.
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