By the Social & Legal Service of the Athens Solidarity Center* We met R.M. at the Athens Solidarity Centre in February 2020. R.M. is a 9-year-old child of Kurdish nationality, who came in Greece from the suffering area of Afrin, in north Syria. His father had died a few months earlier. To save him from […]
Sexual identity persecution and eventual recognition of the refugee status of a Gambian beneficiary Ioanna Platanisioti, Attorney at law, Athens Solidarity Center Legal Service* The examination of asylum applications in the second instance, carried out by the Committees of the Appeals Authority, has recently led to a multitude of rejection decisions. Applicants after the first […]
Martha Chatziantoniou Attorney at law, Athens Solidarity Center Legal Service * Access to asylum procedures in Greece presents significant challenges for people with serious disabilities, especially when they live outside the protective framework of the state. This is the case for applicants who make a subsequent application for asylum, following the final rejection of their […]
SolidarityNow honored the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence with a series of awareness raising activities organized by the facilitators of the Female Friendly Spaces at the Child & Family Support Hubs operating by the organization, in 14 open accommodation sites for migrants and refugees across Greece. Through these actions, the women living in […]
10.12.2020 | Human Rights Day “Days of lockdown, days of the pandemic” By Thodoris Zeis, Lawyer Legal Service Athens Solidarity Center Days of lockdown, days of the pandemic. Equal for everybody? Of course not. A young man from Guinea has been forced to travel by train from Thessaloniki, the city of the hundreds of Covid-19 […]
Fotini, teacher, Integration Learning Center, Athens Fotini has been working for Civil Society’s organizations since 2016. She is a philologist and teaches Greek to refugees and migrants. Since 2019, she is one of the teachers at the SolidarityNow Integration Learning Center for the “HELIOS” program*, teaching the Greek language to recognized adult refugees living in Greece. […]
Maria Ninou, teacher, Integration Learning Center, Ioannina Αt the other end of the telephone, Maria Ninou, language teacher, talks about the Greek lessons she gives to recognized adult refugees, at SolidarityNow’s Integration Learning Center (ILC) in Ioannina. “I will not talk about the course context” she tells us at the beginning of our discussion; indeed she […]
Emmanouela, teacher, Integration Learning Center, Athens She has just finished her course at the “HELIOS” Integration Learning Center* in Athens, and during her break she is happy to talk about her work and experience in this program, which in her opinion is indeed “a second sun”** for its beneficiaries. Emmanuela is a language professor who […]
