Archived Projects
SOpHiSM
A response to online hate speech through the enhancement of high-quality professional and citizen journalism.
Legal Aid Watch
The project “Legal Aid Watch” aims to promote the institution of legal aid in Greece and in particular to collect research data on its practical application.
Support refugees’ rights
The Hellenic Union for Human Rights is implementing a legal aid program for vulnerable asylum seekers. The program is implemented in Lesvos, where the highest number of arrivals is recorded. Overpopulation and lack of protection are systematically recorded as well.
REACT
The REACT programme (Refugee, Assistance, Collaboration, Thessaloniki) concerns the lease of a total of 100 apartments in the municipalities of Thessaloniki, Neapoli-Sykies, and Kalamaria, and the signing of tenancy agreements with 30 families wishing to provide housing to refugees.
Golden Dawn Watch
Golden Dawn Watch is an initiative to monitor the trial against Golden Dawn, organised by the Hellenic League for Human Rights, the Greek Observatory against Fascism and Racist Speech in the Media, which works as part of the Educational Foundation of ESIEA (Journalists’ Union of Athens Daily Newspapers), the Antifascist League of Athens and Piraeus, and the City of Athens Migrants’ Integration Council.
Provision of legal and other essential information to refugees
Hellenic League for Human Rights implemented the project “Provision of legal and other essential information to refugees” , which started in August 2016 and lasted, after an extension period, until December 2017.
Tocsin
The research project of TOCSIN (Teacher suppΟrt Confronting Social INequalities – TOCSIN) has been co-financed by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology through the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEA) (FM GR07 / 3708).
Stop Mare Mortum
Since august 2016, the Hellenic League for Human and Civil Rights, in collaboration with Spanish organization “Stop Mare Mortum”, has been providing tailored legal advice and legal aid to asylum seekers, the majority of whom are Syrians, but also Iraqis and Afghans, living both in formal hospitality structures as well as elsewhere
C.O.N.T.A.C.T.
C.O.N.T.A.C.T is a European Union supported project that aims to do something about this through a hate crime recording website and phone app, training of police and officials and research into hate crime. C.O.N.T.A.C.T covers Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Spain and UK. C.O.N.T.A.C.T stands for Creating an Online Network, monitoring Team and phone App to Counter hate crime Tactics.
Action Platform for the Rights in Mental Health
Between May 2015 and May 2016, the Hellenic League for Human Rights actively participated in the “Action Platform for the Rights in Mental Health”, a project for human rights in mental health.
Support and legal services for victims of hate crime
The project entitled “Support and legal services for victims of hate crime” concerned support and legal services to victims of hate crime, through interventions for the recognition, reporting, and addressing hate crime
Nazi-Free Thessaloniki Assembly
Direct Action Against Racist Violence – NA.F.TH.A. was founded in spring 2013 in Thessaloniki, as a collaboration between organizations, collectives, and individuals, and already counts among its achievements a court victory (for the case of racist conduct by a Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization – OASTH – bus driver), in addition to having publicized other cases of racist violence