Eleni K. 40-year old is a professional makeup artist. She decided to seek legal support at SolidarityNow’s Thessaloniki Solidarity Center, as she did not have the money to pay a lawyer to represent her in the change of her gender in the government-issued identity document. From the age of 4 she felt that she was […]
#IHaveTheRight SolidarityNow: Ensuring Social Justice The World Day of Social Justice is celebrated every year on February 20th. Social justice is a continuous political and social claim. Many struggles have taken and taking place for social justice, as it gives rise to ideological and political oppositions. But what is Social Justice? We can summarize its […]
Mary, the grandmother has already put food on the fire, the three children are getting ready for school and Anna and Andreas are talking, planning the day for the family. They will all meet again at 4 in the afternoon and will eat together the food that the grandmother has prepared. We see Andreas and […]
He wears earphones and listens to music, at the same time, he hears the sounds of nearby traffic on the street. From time to time he greets shopkeepers in the area where he works, his job is very important, as he tends to the cleaning of the streets for all of us. And he likes […]
Four young girls are going to school and all of them are good students. A 42-year-old man and his wife, their parents, walk on a main street of Athens and they themselves are going to school. The next day they are all present at a celebration dedicated to the children. Their eldest daughter recites a […]
Maria drops off her son at school and runs off to make the bus that takes her to her job. On her way there, she observes other women and she smiles. How amazing is the hair of some of these women! Some of them might become her clients, and they will in turn be happy, […]
“I shall also be one of the women that will not quit her dreams…” “At the Polytechnic University I became aware of how ‘male dominated’ the sector is and during my studies on education/teaching I experienced the ‘female domination’. It is unbelievable that even today these sex differences exist in the choice of studies and […]
“My husband is the first person in my life, who pushes me to continue my studies” Feriste, 25, from Afghanistan, along with her husband and daughter, have been living in Greece for the last 2.5 years. Their daughter was born here. If the Greek law was different, she would have taken the Greek citizenship. We […]
