European Court of Human Rights

The LGBT community of Athens celebrated the 10th Athens Pride Festival with a parade on Sunday, June 14. The parade started in Klafthmonos Square at 7pm and ended in Syntagma Square, in front of the Greek Parliament. The Festival’s...

According to a report by the Austrian Trade Union Federation and the Austrian Chamber of Labor, the policy that troika is implementing in Greece violates human rights and the European law. Andreas Fischer-Lescano, professor of European law in the University...

According to the annual report of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released on Thursday, January 30 by the president of the Court Dean Spielmann, Greece is in 7th place for recorded human rights violations. In particular, the annual...

Greek civil servants, upset that the country's highest court has ruled that military pay cuts imposed as part of austerity measures affecting the public sector across-the-board were unconstitutional and must be repaid, are suing to get back lump sum...

As the civil war in Syria gets worse day by day, the number of refugees who seek better luck has been constantly increasing. The host countries in Europe and the Middle East have grown uneasy over the new arrivals....

The European Court of Human Rights made a final decision by majority vote concerning the case “Vallianatos and others vs Greece.” The Court did not find any convincing arguments for Greek law to exclude same-sex couples from civil unions...

European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Greece has violated the human rights of an immigrant from Afghanistan. Greece was sentenced for keeping a minor refugee from Afghanistan in a migrant holding center under unacceptable living conditions, along...

Tension is escalating again between Greece and Turkey with Turkish officials now complaining that the Turkish minority living in Greece have few rights and that Greeks living in Turkey have more. That assessment came from the spokesperson of the Turkish...

The Court of Human Rights condemned Greece, claiming that the Greek Justice accepted as lawful the dismissal of a Greek female worker suffering from AIDS. The European Court of Human Rights condemned Greece for violation of the warranty which prohibits...

The Turkish state, after a decision taken by the General Directorate of Foundations (GDF), yielded to the community of Ortaköy (spelled Mesochori in Greek), a small village, within the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, a building that had previously...