Society

The British national daily newspaper, The Guardian, in an article on May 6 entitled Greece's People Show The Politicians How To Fight Golden Dawn, written by Daniel Trilling, claimed that more Greeks are disgusted at the presence of fascists...

Two families in Crete were left in mourning for their beloved who decided to put an end to their lives on Easter Sunday. A desperate 34-year-old mother-of-two hanged herself and a 26-year-old young man committed suicide by shooting himself,...

They hoped that they would find in Europe the promised land. But they were confronted with xenophobia, racism and Golden Dawn. The German weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel, published the article, A getaway from xenophobia, on the attacks against...

On April 30, a tragedy occurred in the village of Venerato in Heraklion, Crete, when a tractor overturned and crushed to death a 42-year-old farmer. The farmer died in his effort to save his son, who is now hospitalized...

Moodeet is the name of the new social network made in Greece. It is a new fun platform aiming to fill the void left behind by other popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. A group of students...

The recent shooting of Bangladeshi workers working at Strawberry fields in South Greece, after they demanded outstanding wages might have shocked the nation, but brought to light the plight of migrants that enter Greece every year. The...

The Flemish newspaper De Morgen said in a story under the headline  The Reality Greek Schools Have to Face: Pupils Search For Food in Garbage, that the country's austerity crisis has cut so deep into government spending and people's...

A delegation of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) visited Greece from April 4 to 16. According to cpt.coe.int, the CPT delegation examined the treatment and conditions of detention...

Inese Vaidere’s report on the impact of crisis on human and social rights was adopted by a large majority in the European Parliament. Vaidere, EPP Group Coordinator in the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament, in her report...

The wounding of 29 immigrant workers on a strawberry farm in Manolada in the Peloponnese of Greece has caused outrage from activists and human rights groups, but farm owners in the area have been cited for several years for...

The Artistic Director of the National Theater of Greece, Yannis Houvardas, talks about Greece and the crisis in a full-page interview to the Austrian newspaper Wiener Zietung, in the light of his directing (his first directing in Vienne) of...

While the incident of exploitation of immigrants in Manolada, Ilia, shocks the Greek public opinion, students of the schools of Attica send their own message against modern slavery with their works of art for the exhibition, Step2Freedom, which will...

With more than 68,000 businesses closed in the last three years of a crushing economic crisis, the Greek government is planning to submit a bill that will let small stores be open on every Sunday and for department stores...

Mind Games, an international educational seminar on inter-religious dialogue, mass media and peaceful conflict resolution is taking place in the Greek town of Komotini from April 12-20. It is funded by the European Commission in the framework of its program...

The growing ranks of Greece's homeless, many saying they were put on the streets by a crushing economic crisis that has cut pay, raised taxes and slashed pensions, march through the capital Athens on April 13 in a protest...