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Human rights in Greece are observed by various organizations. The country is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights , the Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the United Nations Convention Against Torture .
Greece’s prime minister insisted Tuesday that the rule of law in the country was “stronger than ever,” despite mounting criticism from press freedom and human rights groups. Kyriakos ...
Human rights lawyer Scott Leckie argues that the international scrutiny of human rights in Greece helped the country to transition more rapidly to democracy. [173] [168] Greece's denunciation was the first time a regional convention on human rights was denounced by one of its members. [177]
Greece was not one of the ten founding members of the Council of Europe, but it was the first state to join, doing so three months later, on 9 August 1949. [1] In 1953, the Hellenic Parliament unanimously ratified the Council of Europe's human rights treaty, the European Convention on Human Rights, and its first protocol. [2]
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for a "credible" probe into a migrant shipwreck off Greece in June in which hundreds died, saying that contrasting accounts by the ...
In 2008 a United Nations independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall, personally visited Greece to check the current situation regarding the minorities. As the report published on the UN Human Rights Council web site [39] says: "The Independent Expert met numerous individuals identifying as ethnic Macedonian." Moreover, she urges: "the ...
The issue of children’s rights, including the publicized plight of cancer survivors in a same-sex relationship, helped nudge public opinion toward narrowly favoring the bill that was sponsored ...
According to a human rights report by Amnesty International, in the first month of the 21 April coup an estimated 8,000 people were arrested. [53] [54] James Becket, [60] an American attorney and author of Barbarism in Greece, [61] [62] was sent to Greece by Amnesty International. He wrote in December 1969 that "a conservative estimate would ...