With its announcement on June 9 2017, the for Racist Violence Recording Network welcomes the legislative initiative on legal recognition of gender identity as an important step in fulfilling the state’s commitment to drastically curb discrimination based on gender identity. As the Network has already argued, legal recognition of gender identity will solve many of […]
The Children on the Move Network, coordinated by the Deputy Ombudsman for Children’s Rights, conducted an assessment in April – May 2017 with the aim to examine the access to school of unaccompanied children accommodated in Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) shelters. The assessment has been supported by members of Children on the Move Network, […]
On 11 May 2017, the Greek Ombudsman in the framework of his institutional mission for the protection and promotion of children’s rights, addressed in a letter to the Central Asylum Service a series of findings and proposals on family reunification and resettlement procedures for accompanied and unaccompanied minors. These are based on cases that have […]
The Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) condemns the attacks against Palestinian, Syrian and Iraqi asylum seekers, including a trans woman, that took place last week on Leros. According to the RVRN recordings, six (6) distinct attacks were perpetrated between midnight of May 2nd and the evening of May 4th. Three (3) incidents took place within […]
On 9 May 2017 Solidarity Now and 14 more NGOs urge the Greek Government to immediately reverse the recent policy excluding asylum-seekers on the Greek islands who appeal negative asylum decisions from the possibility of participating later on in the International Organisation for Migration’s (IOM) Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programme and forcing those […]
by George Kanaris, Social Services Coordinator at SolidarityNow’s Athens Solidarity Center. The integration of the newly arrived refugees is one of the biggest challenges that the Greek society will face in the coming years. Quite a big part of the currently residing in Greece refugees will be relocated in other countries, another big part will be […]
The Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) presented on 4.4.2017 its 2016 annual report, analyzing the quantitative and qualitative findings of racist violence and hate crime recordings by the 37 organizations participating in the Network, including Solidarity Now. The RVRN recognized that positive steps had been taken in combatting racist violence and urged the State to […]
Imperative the investigation of EU funding for Greece to manage the refugee crisis Athens, April 4th, 2017 On Monday, March 13th 2017, SolidarityNow submitted a petition to the European Parliament (Committee on Petitions – PETI) requesting that it investigates the connection between European Union funding in Greece and the dismal reception conditions for individuals seeking […]
