Network partners' profiles 

Amnesty International is a well-known international NGO for human rights. The Amnesty International has published for Greece important reports on human rights’ violation and racist violence against immigrants and minorities, as its mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

ARSIS - Social Organisation for Youth Support is a Non Governmental Organisation that specialises in the provision of social support to young people and in defending their rights in order to combat and prevent their social exclusion. In a country where the majority of immigrant and minority population is of young age, the ARSIS’ role is significant in addressing the needs of social groups vulnerable to racism and discrimination. It is a front line organisation, performing street work and in direct contact with racism and discrimination victims. Among its most important work has been the cooperation with international NGOs for the repatriation and reintegration in their family environment of unaccompanied minors in Albania in the past years.

The main goals of the Medical Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, Athens are to function as a rehabilitation centre for tortured persons and their families, to educate the Greek or foreign health professionals in order to examine and cure tortured people, to contribute to the transmission of knowledge about the existence of the various kinds of torture and about the possibility of rehabilitation of victims of torture, to carry out scientific research and give incentives on research about torture and its consequences, to maintain and develop an information centre (documentation), and to contribute to the prevention of torture. It has been selected as a network partner for its key role as a primary source for racist incidents, as well as for the statutory orientation towards documentation and data collection.

The Social Centre 'Steki' of Immigrants in Hania (Crete) is an important local NGO of Immigrants and local Greeks founded on solidarity and promotion of multiethnic and multicultural society. The Immigrants’ ‘Steki’ especially in Crete have proved to be among the most vigorous and successful experiments of self-organising initiatives by immigrants and local supporters. The ‘Steki’ of Hania, one of the most important initiatives of the island, has been selected as one of the key organisation for network partnership as it is situated in Crete, the island where a number of serious racist incidents have occurred in the past years, among which two killings of immigrant workers in 2006.