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GREECE 2003 2002 2001 THROUGH 2000	Home Page Countries Organizations Special Issues Publications Links Profile Communication The Greek Human Rights Web Pages Wiesenthal Center Urges Greek State TV To Proceed With Holocaust Documentary Wiesenthal Center 30/12/2003 Interior Deputy Minister Nikos Bistis Intervenes on Behalf of Olympic Stadium Roma and Reaffirms Commitments on Aspropyrgos and Spata Roma [in greek] GHM 29/12/2003 Greek State Television Withdraws Funding of Documentary on Nazi War Criminal and Holocaust Perpetrator Max Merten GHM 29/12/2003 Charges laid against book publisher and author WiPC/IFEX 17/12/2003 195 women 'sex slaves': Greece AFP 16/12/2003 Theodorakis' Antisemitic Ranting (T. Michas, 12-12-03) The National Herald 16/12/2003 'Obscene' art offends orthodox Greek taste [and is withdrawn from Athens Olympics-related state exhibit] [H. Smith, 14-12-03] The Observer 14/12/2003 What's a kiss between friends? Media watchdog fines TV channel for gay smooch in bid to keep viewers in the dark [Greece.gr, 5-12-03] Greece.gr 10/12/2003 Macedonia and Greece will open consulates in Thessaloniki and Bitola MILS 10/12/2003 Greece urged to treat Gypsies better AP 09/12/2003 Deputy Minister Bistis on Spata, Marousi and Aspropyrgos Roma [in greek] GHM 09/12/2003 Neofascist reaction force Edessa authorities cancel "Rainbow" Macedonian minority party congress in Greece RAINBOW European Movement 08/12/2003 Statement after Greece's neo-fascists force cancellation of Macedonian minority party congress EFA 08/12/2003 OMCT urgent appeal: Athens prosecutor rejects Olga B.'s request to suspend her deportation (GRE 020703.2 VAW) OMCT/GHM 05/12/2003 Greece's Orthodox Church leader calls Turks "barbarians" AFP 04/12/2003 ERRC/COHRE Housing Rights Action Before European Committee of Social Rights (on Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Turkey) ERRC 04/12/2003 Acquittal of a policeman who killed an Albanian man OMCT/GHM 04/12/2003 Governments must tackle the pain merchants (includes alleged eletric shock torture and tear gas use in Greece) AI 02/12/2003 Acquittal of Policeman Who Killed Albanian Proves Albanians Lives Have No Value for Greek Authorities GHM 02/12/2003 Jerusalem Post Publishes the Censored EU Report on Manifestations of Anti-Semitism in the European Union Jerusalem Post 01/12/2003 Greek Jews on edge [21/11/03] Athens News 30/11/2003 MK Bronfman rejects Theodorakis apology bid The Jerusalem Post 30/11/2003 In Europe [and Greece], old anti-Semitism in a new stripe Philadelphia Inquirer 30/11/2003 Renaming Square in Halandri after Mardohaios Frizis is a "Jewish-Masonic Demand of the Almighty KIS" (10/11/2003) [in greek] GHM 29/11/2003 Greeks and Jews (N. Konstandaras, 15-11-03) English Kathimerini 29/11/2003 Delay of Anti-Semitism Report Criticized - Researchers, Jewish Groups Accuse EU Agency of Ignoring Virulence of Prejudice Washington Post 29/11/2003 Plane-spotters sue Greek lawyers BBC 28/11/2003 15,000 Wiesenthal Centre On-Line Activists Finally Awaken Greek Authorities to Dangers of Antisemitism SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE 28/11/2003 Updated Info on November 24 Trials: Police Officer for Killing an Albanian and Journalist for Insulting A Police Officer over the Phone (!) (20/11/2003) [in greek] GHM 28/11/2003 Homophobia/Greece: Cappato (radical MEP of the lista bonino) tables a question to EU institutions... EP 26/11/2003 Greece to release hunger strikers BBC 26/11/2003 RSF and OSCE call for defamation to be decriminalised RSF/IFEX 25/11/2003 Call for investigation into ill-treatment of demonstrators AI 25/11/2003 Rights group (GHM) condemns acquittal of Greek policeman in Albanian's death case AFP 24/11/2003 Greece Admits to Anti-Semitism and Announces Holocaust Remembrance Day GHM 22/11/2003 As Jewish �travel advisory� issued, Greece cracks down on anti-Semitism JTA 21/11/2003 Greece not fighting anti-Semitism Wiesenthal Center 21/11/2003 Immigration control - human rights abuses against Albanians AI 20/11/2003 National Radio and Television Council fines television station for showing two men kissing GHM/IFEX 19/11/2003 Greece tackles its image as a state of racists The Guardian 17/11/2003 Appeal to Condemn Institutionalized Homophobia in Greece GHM 16/11/2003 Immigration control - Human rights abuses against Albanians AI 14/11/2003 Language use and language attitudes of a phantom minority: The Slavic-Speakers in Greek Macedonia Hidden Minorities of South-Eastern Europe 07/11/2003 Anti-Semitism and Racism in Greece: Op-Ed in WSJ on the Occasion of Kristalnacht Commemoration [in greek] GHM 07/11/2003 Greek Muslim Seek Turkish identity AFP 07/11/2003 Games green light for Athens prostitutes The Guardian 04/11/2003 When Consolidated GHM "Anti-Greek" Positions on Racism in Greece Are Finally Widely Adopted... [in greek] GHM 28/10/2003 Racial tensions exposed in row over school's holiday parade in Greece The Independent 28/10/2003 Roma Rights 3/2003: Personal Documents and Fundamental Rights ERRC 27/10/2003 "ENOUGH" of Violence on EU Borders (Greece-Albania) MJAFT 26/10/2003 ADL appalled and outraged by Chirac and Simitis for blocking EU condemnation of Malaysian PM anti-Semitism ADL 18/10/2003 Muslims in Athens: In search of a place to pray The Christian Science Monitor 18/10/2003 Bittersweet return for Greek civil war's lost victims The Guardian 17/10/2003 Problems of the Turkish Minority of Greece as Presented to the OSCE WTMUGA/FWTTE 17/10/2003 MHRMC Report on Macedonian Minority in Greece - OSCE 2003 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting MHRMC 17/10/2003 Case GRC 161003 - severe beatings, injuries and/or killings of Albanian citizens at border areas in Greece [in greek] OMCT/GHM 16/10/2003 Third Desecration of Jewish Monument in Ioannina in Eighteen Months [in greek], [photo] GHM 10/10/2003 ERRC/GHM Legal Action in Greek Police Killing of Romani Man ERRC/GHM 14/10/2003 Olga B. again not summoned to a hearing concerning her case (OMCT Appeal GRE 020703.1 VAW) [in greek] OMCT/GHM 13/10/2003 AJC letter to Greek Prime Minister on Athens Exhibit Glorifying Female Suicide Bombers AJC 13/10/2003 Treaty Signatures & Ratifications, 6 - 10/10/03: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro CoE 10/10/2003 "Macedonian minority does not exist in Europe!?" - on a PACE report MILS 10/10/2003 Arbitrary detention of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum continues - Case GRC 091003 [in greek] OMCT/GHM 10/10/2003 Greek Government Must Denounce Anti-Semitic Attack on Holocaust Memorial ADL 10/10/2003 "[Jewish] Murderers Deserved Such an Executioner [Hitler] Because they Are not Human Beings and Must Swallow their Tongues" ("Criticism of Sharon" in Greek daily "Eleftherotypia") (25/09/2003) [in greek] GHM 10/10/2003 British protester facing trial starts hunger strike in Greece BBC 10/10/2003 Even the Supreme Court "Forgot" to Summon Olga B. in the Hearing on the Cassation of the Acquittal Verdict of Her Alleged Rapist... [in greek] GHM 09/10/2003 Europe's Young Adults Unite (in Greece) - Sort Of Jewish Times 09/10/2003 Greek Vandals Desecrate Jewish Cemetery [with GHM material from similar previous actions] [photo] AP 09/10/2003 IHF-ERRC Joint Intervention on Roma Rights (concerns Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia) IHF-ERRC 08/10/2003 Wiesenthal Centre to Greek Prime Minister: "Athens Exhibit Glorifying Suicide Bombers Escalates Prospect for Terrorism in the Context of Approaching Olympics" SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE 08/10/2003 Petrol bomb attack on home of television host who probed terrorism RSF/IFEX 01/10/2003 Council position on free movement directive a significant blow to recognition of same-sex partnerships in Europe ILGA-Europe 30/09/2003 Human rights violations suffered by the LGBT community Gay and Lesbian Rights EP Intergroup 30/09/2003 Letters to the editor of Athens News about the case of ill-treatment of Necati Zontul ATHENS NEWS 30/09/2003 Open letter to mr. Constantine Simitis, prime minister of Greece, on Spata Roma [in greek] OMCT/GHM 29/09/2003 Trafficking in human beings - New legislation and measures Greek MFA 29/09/2003 Greek Massacre of Turks, Albanians and Jews in Major Independence Battle Omitted by Mass Historical Insert GHM 26/09/2003 Albania protests at shooting by Greek police Kathimerini 26/09/2003 Newsletter no 11 RAINBOW 26/09/2003 More cases of maltreatment of Albanian emigrants by Greek police ARCT 26/09/2003 Open Letter to Prime Minister Simitis to Assure Neo-Nazi Anti-Semitic and Xenophobic Graffiti on Major Corinth - Tripoli Highway Is Erased [photo 1], [photo 2], [in greek] GHM 25/09/2003 Open letter on violence of the Greek Police towards Albanian migrants AHC 25/09/2003 Abuses against Albanians in Greek-Albanian Border among Prevailing Impunity in Greece and Indifference of Albanian Government [in greek] GHM 25/09/2003 Albanian emigrants disfigured by the continued violence of Greek police AHRG 23/09/2003 Pagans fight for divine rights of old Greek gods in Greece Scotland on Sunday 21/09/2003 How Greece Does (Not) Respect the Roma of Spata (and their Rights). A GHM Report to State Authorities, the Greek Ombudsman and the Council of Europe (16/09/2003) [in greek] GHM 19/09/2003 Criminal Charges against 27 Roma and Destitute Living Conditions in the Roma Settlement of Glykeia [photo] OMCT/GHM 18/09/2003 Ill treatment of three Albanian emigrants from the Greek police [photo 1] , [photo 2] ARCT 17/09/2003 Villagers try to block Athens mosque plan The Guardian 16/09/2003 When Greece's Largest Daily "Eleftherotypia" Discovers the Skopjan Language [in greek] GHM 16/09/2003 Trading in misery: Trafficking in women in the Balkans IWPR 15/09/2003 Urgent Appeal to the Minister of Justice and the Greek Ombudsman for the Protection of Juvenile Suspects [in greek] GHM 14/09/2003 Reunification of a sudani child asylum seeker with his sister [in greek] OMCT 12/09/2003 School Year Begins with a Deception of the Roma of Spata [in greek] GHM 11/09/2003 Update on EU Asylum, Migration and other related matters (July 2002-June 2003) UNHCR 11/09/2003 New Case of Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seeker from Sudan Illegally Detained with Adults by Rhodes Police in Greece [in greek] GHM 09/09/2003 "What access to healthcare for Roma women?": Conference at the Council of Europe, 11-12 September CoE 08/09/2003 Macedonian Exiles Bring Greek Guilt Home The Scotsman 07/09/2003 European Parliament favors opening up of civil marriage and adoption for same-sex couples EP 05/09/2003 Open Letter to Greek Minister of Justice on Judicial System's Lack of Will to Deal with Incitement to Hatred and Discrimination IHF/GHM 04/09/2003 Greek Newspapers on Trial in September 2003 for Incitement to Racial Hatred and Discrimination GHM 30/08/2003 Invitation for the Third Macedonian World Human Rights Conference MHRMC 28/08/2003 Amnesty International calls for re-trial of police officer acquitted of alleged rape of a Ukrainian woman AI 28/08/2003 Athens content by the gathering in Florina (Lerin) MILS 28/08/2003 100-days delay in the reunification of 2 Somali children asylum seekers with their mother (Case GRC 260803.CC) [in greek] OMCT 27/08/2003 Third world meeting of former children-refugees carried out successfully in Greece MILS 27/08/2003 Roma refugees from Kosovo started moving to private houses in Macedonia MILS 27/08/2003 Greece's Macedonians call for the repealing of the 1982 law MILS 22/08/2003 UNHCR FYROM Update no. 36 on Kosovo Roma Refugees in Macedonia UNHCR 21/08/2003 ND Deputy Tables Question on "Contemptible Separatist" Macedonian Political Refugees and 200.000 indigenous Greeks in FYROM ND Deputy 21/08/2003 Macedonian Helsinki Committee: Kosovo Roma refugees victims of racial discrimination by UNHCR MILS 21/08/2003 After 55 years Macedonian children refugees again in Greece MILS 21/08/2003 Greek Foreign Ministry's Nervous Reaction of Macedonian Refugees' Meeting in Florina Kathimerini 20/08/2003 Greek Vlach Federation Protests Freedom House Report Reference to Greece's Vlachs as Minority MPA 20/08/2003 On Macedonian refugees visit to Greece Kathimerini/MPA 19/08/2003 Evangelos Kroustallakis Term in Office - Selective Sensitivities of the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office (24/07/2003) GHM 15/08/2003 Protection of children not properly enforced in Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal says OMCT CoE 15/08/2003 Wiesenthal Centre to Greek Prime Minister: "Official Silence Implies Complicity in Anti-Jewish Aggression" SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE 14/08/2003 Anti-Semitism in Greece (July 2003) GHM 14/08/2003 Desecration of Synagogue (August 2003) and Jewish Cemetary (April 2002) of Ioannina (Greece) GHM 14/08/2003 Australian Macedonians allowed to return to Greece (some) Refugees Daily 14/08/2003 Criminal Charges against 27 Roma and Destitute Living Conditions in the Roma Settlement of Glykeia (Case GRE-FE 130803) [photo] OMCT 14/08/2003 Ill treatment of asylum seekers in Mytilini (Case GRE 060803) OMCT 13/08/2003 UNHCR FYROM Update no. 35 on Kosovo Roma from Greek-Macedonian Border UNHCR 12/08/2003 Official Greek Version on Aegean Macedonians Being Refused Entry or Allowed in Greece on 10 August Kathimerini 12/08/2003 Around 100 Aegean Macedonians Refused Entry into Greece on 10 August MILS 11/08/2003 UNHCR Annotated comments on the EU Reception Conditions Directive [attachment] UNHCR 10/08/2003 UNHCR Annotated comments on the EU Temporary Protection Directive [attachment] UNHCR 10/08/2003 UNHCR Welcomes Return of the Kosovo Roma Refugees from Medzitlija (Greek Macedonian border) UNHCR 10/08/2003 Greek Transexuals Protest Turkish Police Attack against Transexuals in Turkey S.A.T.T.E. 10/08/2003 Macedonian Political Refugees Once Again Denied Democratic Rights by Greek Authorities GHM/MRG-G 10/08/2003 UNHCR Calls on Greece for Continuation of Moratorium on Forced Returns to Iraq UNHCR 08/08/2003 MHRMC Condemns Greece's Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians as Yet Another Canadian-Macedonian is Denied Entry into Greece MHRMC 08/08/2003 Developments on Kosovo Roma at Greek-Macedonian border - MILS and UNCHR versions MILS 07/08/2003 On the Possibility of Macedonian Political Refugees to Visit or Settle Back in Greece RAINBOW 05/08/2003 Green light for red light area in Athens AFP 05/08/2003 UNHCR Macedonia Information Update No.33 on Kosovo Roma at the Greek-Macedonian Border UNHCR 04/08/2003 Procedure for entrance of children refugees in Greece eased up (partially) MILS 04/08/2003 UNHCR and government without solution for kosovo roma at greek-macedonian border MILS 04/08/2003 Commemoration of Romani Holocaust. In Greece of Apartheid, Judicial "Pogrom" Against Roma of Nea Tiryntha for Living on Land They Were Relocated to by the Prefecture! [photo], [in greek] SOKADRE 02/08/2003 New on MINELRES website MINELRES 01/08/2003 Athens suburb kicks up ruckus over mosque project AFP 30/07/2003 Macedonian refugees from Greece will try to enter Greece on 10 August MILS 29/07/2003 Greek mosque plans cause friction BBC 29/07/2003 MHRMC Condemns Greece's Continued Blacklisting of Ethnic Macedonians MHRMC 26/07/2003 Restored Democracy Celebrates 29th Anniversary but Civil Society Still Under Construction (23/07/2003) GHM 25/07/2003 Swedes can go for gold in Athens Olympic brothels Reuters 25/07/2003 OSCE Skopje conference ends with agreement on return of Roma refugees stranded at Greek border OSCE 25/07/2003 Refugee Concerns in Greece UNHCR Athens 25/07/2003 Statement by the Ministers for Gender Equality of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Athens Brothels Controversy 25/07/2003 Passions rise in Athens brothels row: Denmark accused Sweden of meddling in Greek affairs AFP 25/07/2003 Regional OSCE conference on future of Roma refugees from Kosovo opens in Skopje today OSCE 24/07/2003 Athens prostitutes rally against Olympic regulations AP 24/07/2003 ERRC/GHM Joint Letter on Greek Hate Speech Case (concerning Roma) ERRC/GHM 24/07/2003 EU Commissioner Diamantopoulou "dismayed" at Member States' failure to implement new racial equality rules IP/03/1047 22/07/2003 Unacceptable Two-Day Detention of 24 Aliens (and a Seven-Month Old Baby!) in an Open Area at Mytilini Port [in greek] GHM 21/07/2003 Tribulation of Unaccompanied Somali Children Asylum Seekers at the Hands of Greek and Swedish Authorities and Some Media (17/07/2003) [in greek] [The Somali Children asylum seekers (photo)] GHM 20/07/2003 Photos from Kosovo Roma in the Greek-Macedonian Border and Elsewhere and Kosovo Serbs Anna Kari 19/07/2003 Concert haka (Maori dance) too scary for Greek politicians (in Cultural Olympiad Festival) The Dominion Post 18/07/2003 UN reports on the rights of aliens - 2003 NCHR 18/07/2003 EU recommendations on irregular migration NCHR 18/07/2003 Serious allegation about an assault against a Nigerian on police orders in Mykonos, Greece Indymedia 18/07/2003 Macedonian refugees in august will meet in greece MILS 18/07/2003 Kosovo Roma's attempt to enter Greece stopped with police violence MILS 18/07/2003 OSCE convenes meeting on religious freedom OSCE 15/07/2003 Greek court allows rape to go unpunished, sets dangerous precedent IHF/GHM 14/07/2003 Kosovo Roma in Greek-Macedonian border are waiting for ECHR decision MILS 15/07/2003 IHF Report on Religious Freedom and Tolerance: "Non-traditional" Religions are Targets of Repression in the OSCE Region (concerns Bulgaria and Greece) IHF 15/07/2003 UNHCR Update on the Kosovo Roma in the Greek-Macedonia Border (2-7-03) UNHCR 09/07/2003 Kosovo Roma living in fear turn to EU for help MRGI 03/07/2003 Macedonian Prime Minister lauds 'great step forward' in name dispute as Greek government voices concern RFE/RL 03/07/2003 Greece will open the border for Macedonian political refugees between 10/8-30/10 MILS 03/07/2003 Rom wins UK asylum: Macedonia criticised Ustiben 02/07/2003 Concern over Case of Olga B., Victim of Trafficking and Rape by a Police Officer [in greek] OMCT 02/07/2003 Greece insists in the continuation of the talks for the name of Macedonia (and admits past errors) MPE 27/06/2003 Police Officer Who Killed Rom in Zefyri Still on Duty Despite His Announced, Even Internationally, Dismissal! Had Caused Two More Serious Incidents in the Past but Remained in Service Carrying Firearms! (07/06/2003) [in greek] GHM 27/06/2003 Rape Victim Thanks Minister of Justice for his Intervention in Favor of Motion for Cassation. Need for Effective Protection of Witnesses and Punishment of Those Responsible (14/06/2003) [in greek] GHM 27/06/2003 Let's Not Make Olga's Rape Continuous or Institutional! Appeal to Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Following Rejection of Request for Cassation of the Acquittal Verdict (12/06/2003) [in greek] GHM 27/06/2003 Follow-up on (asylum seeker) Child concern/Arbitrary detention/Fair trial [in greek] OMCT 26/06/2003 Macedonian refugees allowed to enter Greece - Greece opens Bitola consulate MILS 26/06/2003 Anti-globalists from Thessaloniki with support for Kosovo Roma in Greek-Macedonian border MILS 23/06/2003 UNHCR Press Briefing on the Situation of Kosovo Roma at the Greek-Macedonian Border UNHCR 20/06/2003 Greece set to open borders for ethnic Macedonian civil-war refugees RFE/RL 20/06/2003 Open letter from Amnesty International to EU heads of State and Government AI 18/06/2003 Positive Dialogue between Romani and European Union representatives ERIO 16/06/2003 Kosovo Roma in Greek-Macedonian border receive negative answer from EU countries MILS 16/06/2003 The Rainbow newsletter: February - March 2003 RAINBOW 12/06/2003 On the possible ability of Aegean Macedonians to return to Greece MILS 12/06/2003 Greece, Bulgaria to open new border crossing (in area with minorities on both sides) RFE/RL 09/06/2003 Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Announces Free Return of Macedonian Political Refugees MHRMC 09/06/2003 In Defense of Islam (with reference to anti-Semitic Greece - by an American Zionist) J. E. Lewis, israelinsider 08/06/2003 Roma refugees from Kosova stage protest RFE/RL 06/06/2003 EU called on Kosovo Roma to accept the offer of the Macedonian government MILS 06/06/2003 Greek priests denied entry in Macedonia MILS 06/06/2003 Petition by Kosovo Roma in Macedonia (border area with Greece) ERRC 31/05/2003 The Ecumenical Patriarch at the Jewish Holocaust monument MPA 29/05/2003 Kosovo Roma in Greek-Macedonian border signed applications for asylum in Greece MILS 30/05/2003 Roma National Congress: Only solution for Kosovo Roma is to leave Macedonia MILS 29/05/2003 RNC Press Conference on Kosovo Roma at the Greek-Macedonian Border RNC 29/05/2003 Appeal to Supreme Court Prosecutor to Appeal the Acquittal of a Police Officer Accused of Raping a Foreign Woman, Who Was Not Summoned to the Trial! (25-5-2003) [in greek] GHM 29/05/2003 Amnesty International Annual Report 2003 AI 28/05/2003 Government suggests Kosovo Roma become refugees. Helsinki Committee: Allow Roma leave the country. MILS 27/05/2003 Medecins Du Monde-Greece assess situation of 600 Rom refugees stranded at FYROM�Greek border MISSIONS MDM 27/05/2003 Crisis at the Greek-Macedonian border (with Kosovo Roma) Gunther 25/05/2003 News Bulletin on the Macedonian-Greek Kosovo Roma Refugee Crisis RNN Exclusive 23/05/2003 Incident on the Greek-Macedonian border cross Medzitlija - Police had to intervene against Roma from Kosovo MILS 23/05/2003 Roma Rights 1 and 2/2003: Anti-Discrimination Law ERRC 22/05/2003 Greece refused to accept Kosovo Roma refugees which wait at the Macedoian border MILS 22/05/2003 Greek Muslims to Set Up TV Station Soon Al-Jazeerah.info 21/05/2003 Athens plans to erect a mosque (IHT, 21-5-03) AP 21/05/2003 Albanian premier's comment on albanian minority in Greece sparks controversy RFE/RL 21/05/2003 Media Alert: Mt. Athos Monks Fate: Final Court Ruling Due May 27 Esphigmenou 21/05/2003 Humanitarian disaster threatens to the Roma refugees at Greek-Macedonian border MILS 21/05/2003 The Continuing Plight of Roma in Greece Hon. C. Smith in Congressional Record 20/05/2003 Roma refugees from Kosovo discontented by lodging in Macedonia request asylum in Greece MILS 20/05/2003 Threat of eviction of a Roma community (Case GRE 290403.1 ESCR) OMCT 20/05/2003 Harassment of Roma in Greece ERRC/IHF 19/05/2003 Refugee crisis on the Macedonian/Greek boarder with 800 Roma RNN 18/05/2003 Australian Greek Minister in Slur Probe ("Skopjans") [The Age, 14-5-2003] The Age 18/05/2003 SEEMO expresses concern about treatment of Albanian journalist IPI/IFEX 16/05/2003 Les Religions en Politique - No. 23, Religions in Politics (including in the Balkans) Les Religions en Politique 14/05/2003 Greek state authorities continue to trample on emigrants' rights AHRG 14/05/2003 The Central Board of Jewish Communities is asking for the establishment of a National Holocaust Remembrance Day MPA 13/05/2003 Greek State's Answer to the New York Times Article on Athens' Mosque NYT 13/05/2003 Commemoration of Holocaust in Thessaloniki MPE 12/05/2003 Letters of Concern to Ministers over Deportation. Threat against Defender HRW 09/05/2003 Albanian human rights defender and journalist at risk of expulsion AI 07/05/2003 Albanian journalist threatened with deportation GHM/IFEX 06/05/2003 EU and US approaches to the management of immigration HLHR/MPG 04/05/2003 Greece "Celebrates" World Press Freedom Day With Threat of Deportation of Leading Albanian Journalist and Activist Gazmend Kapllani! Urgent Appeals Requested! [in greek] GHM 03/05/2003 Co-Chairman Urges Romania, Greece, Turkey, Other Countries to Repeal Criminal Defamation & Insult Laws HELSINKI COMMISSION NEWS 02/05/2003 Anti-Americanism in Greece Is Reinvigorated by War (Anthee Carassava, The New York Times, 7-4-2003) The New York Times 30/04/2003 Threat of Unlawful Eviction of a Roma Community/Denied Access to Basic Services [in greek] OMCT 29/04/2003 Athens in Wartime (Brady Kiesling, The New York Review of Books, 15-5-2003) Brady Kiesling 29/04/2003 CoE Commissioner for HR Alvaro Gil-Robles outlines human rights problems in EU countries (Brussels - 24.4.03) CoE 26/04/2003 Amnesty Criticizes EU Double Standards on Human Rights (and makes one more unethical reference to its joint report with IHF on Greece) [in greek] AI 24/04/2003 Easter Stories of Church-State Interweaving in Greece [in greek] GHM 24/04/2003 Aspropyrgos Roma Were Looking Forward to Having Water and Electricity. Instead Police Attempted to Evict Them Just Before Easter! [in greek] SOKADRE 24/04/2003 Saudi Arabia Responsible to Build Athens First Mosque (and Islamic Center)! Greek MFA 23/04/2003 When Simitis Said "Enosis" in Cyprus... Neophytos Loizides 22/04/2003 Athens Muslims' Unanswered Prayer: A Place to Worship NYTimes 22/04/2003 More Mount Athos Monks being Evicted 22/04/2003 Full text of Greek NCHR statement to the UN Human Rights Comission (16/04/2003) NCHR 21/04/2003 Greek National Commission for Human Rights Address to the UN Commission on Human Rights Commission on Human Rights 21/04/2003 Immigration Law and Management in Greece Dr Nicholas Sitaropoulos 20/04/2003 Reconciling for the Future - Newsletter IX Reconciling for the Future 18/04/2003 Bias alleged over rules on minority rights (in EU including Greece) The Guardian 17/04/2003 The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora Asterios Koukoudis 17/04/2003 Will this be a lesson?... [on Greek media coverage of the war on Iraq] (V. Paikos, Avghi, 13-4-03) Avghi 16/04/2003 Case GRC 160403 - the prosecutor fails to act concerning cases of torture [in greek] OMCT 16/04/2003 EU Accession exposes double standards on minority rights MRGI 15/04/2003 Speech on Roma by the President of the Athens Bar Association DIMITRIS PAXINOS 14/04/2003 Parliamentary Question on Aspropyrgos (Greece) Roma by Coalition MP Maria Damanaki MARIA DAMANAKI 14/04/2003 Two Socialist Dutch MEPs Write to Greek Authorities on Plight of Roma Resettled by the State Far Away from Inhabited Areas [in greek] MRG-G/GHM 14/04/2003 Gays and Lesbians in Greece Speak Up [in greek] GHM 14/04/2003 Hellenic Police - Psychiatric Hospitals Collaboration: Injections of Sedative Drugs and Electric Shocks on Aliens. Impunity of Perpetrators and Cover-Up. Appeal to the Supreme Court Prosecutor. (20/03/2003) [in greek] GHM 14/04/2003 Council of Europe sadness at the death of 21 teenagers in northern Greece CoE 14/04/2003 The New EU Directive on Sexual Harassment and Its Implications for Greece (M. E. Tsekos, HRB winter 2003) M. E. Tsekos 13/04/2003 Greeks refuse to give bail money back to planespotters Daily Telegraph 13/04/2003 Recommendations of the "Reconciling for the Future" workshop (3-4 April 2003) Reconciling for the Future 09/04/2003 UNHCR urges OSCE states to distinguish between human trafficking and smuggling OSCE 08/04/2003 Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner concerned for Roma/Gypsy communities CoE 08/04/2003 Greek MEP Anna Karamanou on International Roma Day [in greek] Anna Karamanou 08/04/2003 (Greece's and) Europe's Blind Antisemitism Perceives All Jews as Representatives of Israel MOSES CONSTANTINIS 08/04/2003 "No-name country"'s vice-prime minister Sekerinska cancelled participation to so-called "Reconciliation" conference in Thessaloniki MILS 07/04/2003 MHRMC Criticism of US State Department Report on Greece MHRMC 07/04/2003 REPORT - Cleaning Operations: Excluding Roma in Greece ERRC/GHM 06/04/2003 Cleaning Operations: Excluding Roma in Greece (Country Report on Roma in Greece) [in greek] ERRC/GHM 06/04/2003 Chamber hearing on the merits in the case of Makaratzis v. Greece ECHR 03/04/2003 Newsletter VI and VII Reconciling for the Future 31/03/2003 18 Freedom of Expression Groups Sign Appeal on Iraq Crisis [in greek] IFJ/GHM 21/03/2003 ECHR Forthcoming Hearing on the Merits in the Case of Makaratzis v. Greece CoE 21/03/2003 1 February 2003 Desecration of Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki and Feeble Reactions Indicative of Prevailing Anti-Semitism in Greece (International Day Against Discrimination Statement) GHM 21/03/2003 Convention on protection of rights of migrant workers to enter into force next July NCHR 19/03/2003 No to the War on Iraq, no to UN's Devaluation [in greek] GHM 17/03/2003 Greece's Highest Court lifts blockade of besieged Mount Athos Monastery John Rigas 14/03/2003 Newsletter V Reconciling for the Future 13/03/2003 European Human Rights Institutions on reform of the European Court of Human Rights NHRI 13/03/2003 Greece presides over the violations of conscientious objectors' rights AI 13/03/2003 EU Council Regulation 343/2003 (Dublin II) on asylum applications by third country nationals EU 11/03/2003 Greek Helsinki Monitor's Activity Report for 2002 GHM 11/03/2003 The Workshop (Thessaloniki, Greece, 4-6 April 2003) Reconciling for the Future 11/03/2003 Violations of Asylum Seekers' Rights 2001-2003 GHM 08/03/2003 Reconciling for the Future: Issue No. 3, Tuesday, 25 February 2003 Reconciling for the Future 07/03/2003 Welcome to the Land of Plato: A Story of Human Rights Violations of Muslim Migrants in Greece (B. Yaghmaian, 3-3-2003) CounterPunch 07/03/2003 It is eleven plane-spotters who are still out of pocket (Greece owes them money) BBC 05/03/2003 Plane-spotters still out of pocket (Greece owes them money) BBC 03/03/2003 Conference on Vlachs, Aromanians, and Sarakatsans (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia) CNRS 01/03/2003 U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling Letter of Resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell 28/02/2003 Death in Detention of Mr. Alexandros Kallias (Case GRC 280203) [in greek] OMCT 28/02/2003 J. Brady Kiesling, political counselor at US Embassy in Athens, Resigns, Protesting 'Our Fervent Pursuit of War' NYT 27/02/2003 Detainee Commits Suicide In Attica Police Holding Facilities that Were to Be "Withdrawn Entirely from Active Service" in December 2002 [in greek] GHM 25/02/2003 Another Canadian-Macedonian Denied Entry into Greece MHRMC 25/02/2003 UNHCR Supports NGO Allegations on Greek Agencies Being Inaccessible to Asylum-Seekers (15/02/2003) [in greek] SAPE/GHM 20/02/2003 Illegal proceedings and arbitrary detention of a child seeking asylum (GRC 190203.CC) [in greek] OMCT 19/02/2003 "Dnevnik": "Three American states renamed the Macedonians into Greeks" MILS 18/02/2003 Standoff on Mount Athos - Battle for Soul of Orthodoxy Moni Esfigmenou 18/02/2003 ECRI general policy recommendation N�7: Interview with Joseph Voyame, the Swiss member of ECRI and Chair of the working group which drafted the Recommendation ECRI 17/02/2003 ECRI general policy recommendation N�7 on national legislation to combat racism and racial discrimination (13/12/2002) ECRI 17/02/2003 OSCE to hold seminar in Greece on trafficking in human beings [Greek NGOs not informed!!] OSCE 14/02/2003 GHM call to sign AI's online petition to the President of the UN Security Council GHM 12/02/2003 ADL Calls on Greek Prime Minister to Denounce Anti-Semitism, "Set a Tone of Tolerance" in Greece ADL 12/02/2003 The European Court of Justice gives its first ruling on the interpretation of the convention implementing the Schengen agreement Press and Information Division 11/02/2003 EU moves to recognise gay marriage Expatica News and EP Press 11/02/2003 After Stray Dogs, Isn't it About Time that the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee Dealt with Roma as Well? [in greek] GHM 11/02/2003 In Europe, One Continent Under God. Or Not. NYT 09/02/2003 Vital questions unanswered by Dutch inquiry into Srebrenica massacre MSF 08/02/2003 Planespotters face finance nightmare in Greece Cambridge News 08/02/2003 EU COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2003/9/EC of 27 January 2003 laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers NCHR 08/02/2003 Holocaust memorials vandalized in Greece and Italy Bigotry Monitor 07/02/2003 Appeals Trial on Monday for Grave Injury of Civilian by Policeman with Prior Record Withheld from the First Instance Court [in greek] GHM 06/02/2003 Right to Adequate Housing of Racial Discrimination against Roma [in greek] OMCT 05/02/2003 Why Does the Greek Government Keep Silent on the Desecration of the Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki? [in greek] GHM 05/02/2003 Vandals attack Holocaust memorial in Greece Ha'aretz/AP 04/02/2003 SEEMO activities in 2003 and the statistics of press freedom violations in 2002 SEEMO 31/01/2003 Greek Newspapers on Trial in September 2003 for Incitement to Racial Hatred and Discrimination [in greek] GHM 30/01/2003 Characteristic anti-Semitic front page of extreme rightwing weekly "Alpha Ena" (18/1/2003) 30/01/2003 Signature of Council of Europe Protocol against racism in cyberspace CoE 28/01/2003 Call for European Union to accede to European Convention on Human Rights CoE 28/01/2003 MEP voices rape charge fears (in Rhodes, Greece) BBC 24/01/2003 They compare Sharon to Hitler. The Greek press is rife with anti-Semitism, but Athens is silent Ha'aretz 21/01/2003 Case GRC 200103 / GRC 200103.CC - Arbitrary and illegal detention / ill-treatment [in greek] OMCT 20/01/2003 Statement of Greek MEP Anna Karamanou on EP's human rights resolution in general and on Mount Athos specifically [in greek] Anna Karamanou 16/01/2003 Monks Resist Greek Monastery Eviction The Guardian/AP 17/01/2003 Info no 8 (english edition) of Greece's Macedonian minority party RAINBOW 15/01/2003 EURODAC- a tool for a common EU asylum policy - From 15 January 2003 European Commission 14/01/2003 Rescue of Asylum Seekers and Refugees at Sea NCHR 14/01/2003 European National Human Rights Institutions - Recommendations of November 2002 NCHR 07/01/2003 Greece faces shame of role in Serb massacre (and press censorship) [H. Smith, 5-1-03] The Observer 05/01/2003 The First Homeless People of 2003, 9 Asylum-Seekers from Rhodes Thrown Out in the Streets by the Hellenic Police Headquarters with the Coming of the New Year! Is this How the Greek EU Presidency Is Going to Handle the Asylum-Seekers Issue? GHM 02/01/2003
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