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,
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,
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