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Amnesty International Report 2006: Greece
09.06.2006
Europe And Central Asia : Greece HELLENIC REPUBLIC Head of state: Karolos Papoulias (replaced Constantinos Stephanopoulos in March) Head of government: Constantinos Karamanlis Death penalty: abolitionist for all crimes International Criminal Court: ratified UN Women’s Convention and its Optional Protocol: ratified Overview - Covering eve...
Greek Press
17.05.2006
Proinos Tipos - Drama 7 May 2006 Margaritis Tzimas, Drama MP, made the following declaration about “Muslim” Gülbeyaz Karahasan who was nominated as candidate for the chairmanship of Xanthi-Kavala-Drama extended prefecture ; "In our political system, all the Greek citizenships have the right to elect and to be elected but it is undeniable t...
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2005 - Greece
16.03.2006
GreeceCountry Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and LaborMarch 8, 2006Greece is a constitutional republic and multiparty parliamentary democracy, with an estimated population of 11 million. In March 2004 the New Democracy Party won the majority of seats in the unicameral Vouli (Parliament)...
Greek ministry refuses to meet Macedonian minority
20.11.2005
Florina - Lerin, Wednesday, 09 November 2005 by Georgios N. Papadakis The Macedonian minority organization Vinozhito/Rainbow and its representatives have been officially excluded by the Greek Ministry of Education from a meeting on linguistic diversity issues in Greece. Special Secretary on Intercultural Education at the Ministry, Mrs I...
International Religious Freedom Report 2005
19.11.2005
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor The Constitution establishes the Eastern Orthodox Church of Christ as the prevailing religion, but also provides for the right of all citizens to practice the religion of their choice; however, while the Government generally respects this right, non-Orthodox groups sometimes face admin...
Greece should also be aware of her own Deficiencies
28.09.2005
Press Office of the Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)- Witten, 28 September 2005 Press Release: Greece should also be aware of her own Deficiencies Upon the criticisms of the President of Republic of Greece Karolas Papoulias of Turkey regarding the subject matter of minority rights, the President of Federation of Wester...
The Ones Expatriated from the Greek Citizenship
03.06.2005
According to the article written by Klaus Hillenbrand and published in the newspaper “die Tageszeitung” on 19. May in 2005, the Greek Ministry of the Interior announced that a total of 46.638 Turks from the Western Thrace and 12 Islands had been expatriated from the Greek citizenship due to the Citizenship Law, which had been valid until the year 1...
Greece had annulled the citizenships of 46638 persons!
25.05.2005
The state made public for the first time through official numbers:The citizenship of 46638 persons had been annulled! The member of Parliament, Ilhan Ahmet, had asked in his question motion he had submitted to the Parliament on the 20. April in 2005 (10097/ 20-4-2005) how many persons had lost their citizenship, and what kind of initiatives had ...
Report on human rights of the US-State Department published
26.03.2005
In the introduction of the report published by the office for democracy, work and human rights of the US State Department it is stated that the living standard of the people has generally improved, but the freedom of associations and the freedom of worship for the ethnic minorities continue to be very strictly limited. The report contains invest...
GHM and MRG-G condemn the ruling of Greece's Supreme Court
21.02.2005
GREEK HELSINKI MONITOR (GHM) MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP-GREECE (MRG-G) Address: P.O. Box 60820, 15304 Glyka Nera Telephone: (+30) 210.347.22.59. Fax: (+30) 210.601.87.60 e-mail: office@greekhelsinki.gr website: http://www.greekhelsinki.gr PRESS RELEASE 19 January 2005 TOPIC: TURKISH AND MACEDONIAN ASSOCIATIONS BANNED IN GREECE Gre...
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