Events

INVITATION TO PRESS CONFERENCE

The organisations Network of Social Support to Refugees and Migrants, Hellenic League for Human Rights, Greek Council for Refugees, Group of Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) / PRO ASYL cordially invite you a Press Conference held on Monday 11 July 2022 at 11:30 at the Bar Association of Athens (Akadimias 60). 

Regarding today’s judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Safi and Others v Greece, App No 5418/15, 7.7.2022, granting the application of 14 refugees supported by our organisations on violation of articles 2 (right to life) and 3 (prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights. The Court held the Greek authorities responsible for the shipwreck that took place on Farmakonisi on 20 January 2014 following the involvement of a Coast Guard vessel, which led to the tragic drowning of eight children and three women, refugees from Afghanistan.

PRESS RELEASE

The day conference “Arts and Human Rights today“, which is part of the project “The Right to be human” is taking place on Saturday 11 March 2017 in Thessaloniki, Lab’attoir venue.

December 15th 2016, the Hellenic League for Human Rights and SolidarityNow cordially invite you to a press conference on: “The rule of law with regard to the possible extradition of 8 Turkish officials”.

April 23-25 2015,Athens, 
Greece ”Leonidas Zervas” Amphitheatre – National Hellenic Research Foundation 48

Dimitris Christopoulos’ speech

On Saturday 15 of January 2005, the first National Dialogue meeting for Migration in Greece, co-organized by the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) and KEMO

Akin Birdal, vice-president of the FIDH, who was shot and seriously wounded in 1998 for his activist action, addressed on Monday in Athens to a conference entitled “Greece-Turkey-Europe: Human Rights”