Το πρώτο Βραβείο Vígdis, για την Ενδυνάμωση των Γυναικών, απονεμήθηκε στο Irida Women’s Centre στην Ελλάδα, μια μη κυβερνητική οργάνωση βάσης που εργάζεται για θετικές αλλαγές στη ζωή των γυναικών που βιώνουν φτώχεια, κοινωνικό αποκλεισμό και βία λόγω φύλου.
Το ετήσιο βραβείο 60.000 ευρώ, που απονέμεται από κοινού από την
A Greek nongovernmental organization that helps women experiencing poverty, social exclusion and gender-based violence was singled out as the winner of a new prize established by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and the government of Iceland.
The 60,000-euro annual Vigdis Prize for Women’s Empowerment,
Almost half of the dead are children: over 2,000 have already been killed and thousands more children will live with disabilities and mental health issues due to war-inflicted trauma. The blatant disregard for civilians’ right to life and protection cannot be accepted.
Child Rights Advocacy Network (CRAN) and
In December 2021, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Regulation addressing situations of instrumentalization in the field of migration and asylum. The proposal introduces a mechanism that allows Member States to derogate from their responsibilities under EU asylum law in situations of “instrumentalization” of migration. The mechanism is
Η πρόσφατη περίπτωση του νεαρού Σαϊντού (Saidou), πρόσφυγα από την Γουινέα, κατέδειξε έντονα το πρόβλημα των ασυνόδευτων παιδιών, τα οποία αν και βρίσκονται στην χώρα υπό την φροντίδα της Πολιτείας, στερούνται ένα μακροχρόνιο πλαίσιο νομικής προστασίας,
σύμφωνα με το βέλτιστο συμφέρον τους.
Η συγκεκριμένη υπόθεση, έφερε στην επιφάνεια τη συστημική
Athens, 7 April 2022: On the 29th of March, the Greek National Transparency Authority (NTA) issued a press release announcing the conclusion of a 3-month investigation on the management of migration flows to the Greek territory as well as the relevant international journalistic reports on informal forced returns (pushbacks)1.
It
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23/11/2021
Θέμα “Κοινή Δήλωση 293 Οργανώσεων για το νέο Νομοσχέδιο της ΚτΠ”
Με την παρούσα επιστολή που συνυπογράφουν 293 Οργανώσεις της Κοινωνίας των Πολιτών θέτουμε υπόψιν σας τους προβληματισμούς και προτάσεις μας επί του νέου νομοσχεδίου που εισάγει το Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών και αφορά τις Οργανώσεις της
No one should be left hungry!
The Greek government should immediately disburse belated payments of cash assistance and ensure food provision to people living in facilities (e.g. camps and ESTIA apartments), irrespective of their legal status. Depriving them of this basic human right is shameful and a violation of fundamental
Μαρτυρίες που συγκλονίζουν: Εξαναγκασμοί σε γάμο, βιασμοί και κάθε μορφή καταπίεσης βίωσαν και φοβούνται πως θα ξαναβιώσουν οι γυναίκες του Αφγανιστάν από την επανάκαμψη και την εγκαθίδρυση των Ταλιμπάν στην εξουσία της πολύπαθης χώρας.
Έξι Αφγανές γυναίκες μίλησαν αποκλειστικά στη Voria.gr για τις αποτρόπαιες συνθήκες που επικράτησαν κατά την περίοδο
To: Deputy Minister of Health, Mr. Vassilis Kontozamanis,
Secretary General of Primary Health Care, Mr. Marios Themistokleous Chairman of the National Vaccination Committee, Ms. Maria Theodoridou
Throughout the last year and a half, the Covid19 pandemic has affected widely the everyday life of people all over the world, resulting in
Greece deems Turkey “safe”, but refugees are not:
The substantive examination of asylum applications is the only safe solution for refugees
Athens, 14 June 2021: With a new Joint Ministerial Decision (JMD) issued on 7 June,1the Greek State designates Turkey as a “safe third country” for families, men, women and
Over the last years, the undersigned organisations have been receiving allegations of push-backs at the country’s land and sea borders. This practice seems to have now acquired systematic characteristics and constitutes an official state policy aiming at the prevention of refugee and migrant flows.
Although not a new phenomenon, this
To Deputy Minister of Finance, Theodoros Skylakakis
CC:
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Minister of Finance, Christos Staikouras
The European Commission Recovery and Resilience Task Force (RECOVER) Athens, Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Dear Mr. Minister,
The signatory Civil Society Organisations would like to express our concerns about the opacity in the
Nadia Murad is a Yazidi activist and president of Nadia’s Initiative, an organization advocating for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.
Five years ago, Islamic State fighters invaded my ancestral homeland of Sinjar, Iraq, and waged a systematic ethnic-cleansing campaign against
Responding to today’s last-minute decision by the Greek government to amend the criminal code to recognize in law that sex without consent is rape, Eirini Gaitanou, Amnesty International Greece’s Campaigner, said:
“This is a historic victory, not just for the campaigners who have fought long and hard for this day,
Far-right party fails to pass three percent threshold in national election following years in legislature.
Seven years and four elections since first entering Greece’s parliament, the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party has been knocked out of the crisis-hit country’s legislature.
With nearly all of the ballots in Sunday’s general election counted,