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GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR & MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP - GREECE

Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM) was founded in 1992 by members of Minority Rights Group - Greece, affiliated to Minority Rights Group - International since 1992. In 1993, GHM became the Greek member of the International Helsinki Federation. In 1998, GHM became a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX); in 2000 of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Southeast Europe Media Organization (SEEMO); in 2001 of the OneWorld.Net; and in 2002 of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT). GHM monitors, publishes and lobbies on human rights issues in Greece and, occasionally, in the Balkans. It has participated in and often coordinated the monitoring of Greek and Balkan media for stereotypes and hate speech. It has prepared (usually jointly with other NGOs) detailed annual reports; parallel reports to UN Treaty Bodies; and specialized reports on ill-treatment and on ethnonational, ethnolinguistic, religious and immigrant communities, in Greece, as well as on the Greek minorities in Albania and Turkey. It has co-published "'Hate Speech' in the Balkans" (ETEPE, 1998) and "Greece Against its Macedonian Minority: the Rainbow Trial" (ETEPE, 1998). Since 1997, in cooperation with the European Roma Rights Center, it runs a Roma Project for Greece. In 1998, GHM was a co-founder of the Center of Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe - Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE) which operates a web site (http://www.greekhelsinki.gr) and two web lists covering human rights issues and comprehensive and comparable presentations of minorities in the region. In 2000, CEDIME-SE was one of the co-founders of the Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR).

Greek Helsinki Monitor

Administrative Board
Gregory Vallianatos, Chairperson
Kevin Boyle, Member
Panayote Dimitras, Member
Orestis Georgiadis, Member
Dimitrina Petrova, Member

Minority Rights Group - Greece

Spokesperson
Nafsika Papanikolatos

International Advisory Committee

Savvas Agouridis, Teuta Arifi, Ivo Banac, Vladimir Bilandzic, Marcel Courthiade, Loring Danforth, Fernand de Varennes, Victor-Yves Ghebali, Henri Giordan, Krassimir Kanev, Will Kymlicka, Magda Opalski, Theodore S. Orlin, Dimitrina Petrova, Alan Phillips, Aaron Rhodes, Vladimir Solonari, Patrick Thornberry, Stefan Troebst, Boris Tsilevich, Tibor Varady, Marc Weller

Affiliation to International Organizations

Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR), 
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC), 
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), 
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF), 
Minority Rights Group International (MRGI),
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN),
South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO),
OneWorld.net,
World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)

Activists

Thodoros Alexandridis, Roma Project Director
Panayote Dimitras, Spokesperson
Angeliki Kotsantoni, Project Coordinator
Alexandros Lezos, Website Management Coordinator
Nafsika Papanikolatos, Coordinator of the Balkan Minorities Project
Nada Rohani, Volunteer
Dimitra Stafilia, Translator
Alex Tsakoniatis, English Website Manager
Nikos Tsakoniatis, Greek Website Manager

Legal Advisors

Orestis Georgiadis
George Kloudas
Spyros Kloudas
Demi Sakelaropoulou
Dimitris Siskas

Our organizations in the last ten years have also cooperated with:

Vassilis Agouras, Dimitris Angelidis, Pavlos Athanasopoulos, Kostas Barjaba, Marianna Bekiari, Tereza Boukis, George Christodoulidis, Abdulhalim Dede, Elias Dimitras, Maria Dimitriou, Nikos Dimou, Mehmet Dukkanci, Merry Fiffels, Eda Gemi, Katerina Gini, Irina Gigova, Hannah Goldberg, Dionysis Gousetis, Lena Halilopoulos, Dimitris Ioannou, Lola Kalandraki, Alexis Kaliviotis, Gazmend Kapllani, Lia Karadimou, Demetra Kasimis, Maria Koynova, Rajwantee Laksman-Lepain, Mariana Lenkova, Dimitris Levantis, Panayote Lezos, Laura Loli, Caroline Law, Nikos Mastrakoulis, Fotis Mihalopoulos, Elitsa Minovska, Rena Mitrou, Vaso Neofotistos, Sofia Nikolaidou, Louisa O' Brien, Cathy O' Grady, Ibram Onsunoglou, Adamantia Palidis, Antonia Papadopoulou, Margarita Papakosta, Terry Platis, Mary Polichroni, Hebe Roccou, Niki Roubani, Christina Rougheri, Horatiu Rusu, Vasilis Sakellariou, Gabriella Samsonidou, Ellen Slusarczyk, Maria Spirova, Apostolos Stragalinos, Daniella Tarnovschi, Nasos Theodoridis, Kyriaki (Sundy) Topidis, Georgia Tsaklanganos, Mary Ellen Tsekos, Aysel Zeybek.

Greek Helsinki Monitor and Minority Rights Group - Greece would like to acknowledge the sponsorship of Open Society Institute, European Union's PHARE, Euromosaic and Equal programs, Austrian Government -Federal Chancellery, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Nikos Dimou, "Artos Zois" Foundation, European Roma Rights Center, Berghof Foundation for Conflict Research, Aspen Institute Berlin, International Helsinki Federation, Minority Rights Group International, Alternative Information Network, Search for Common Ground Macedonia, Macedonian Human Rights Movement of Canada, Communication and Political Research Society, Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Greek General Secretariat for Youth, and a few others.

• International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and Greek Helsinki Monitor Statutes
• 1995 Activity Report
  
• 1996 Activity Report
  
• 1997 Activity Report
  
• 1998 Activity Report
  
• 1999 Activity Report
• 2000 Activity Report
• 2001 Activity Report
• 2002 Activity Report
• 2003 Activity Report