Dignity

Following criticism over her dual status as president of the independent Asylum Committee and chairwoman of the Administrative Court of Appeals, Evgenia Mylonopoulou on Monday submitted her resignation from both posts.

The Constitutional Court has ordered an investigation into police officers who have been suspected of having a role in Süleyman Göksel Yerdurt’s broken arm during the Gezi Park incidents in 2013, saying the state’s dismissal of the case had been “out of line with human dignity.”

Noting that Slovenia will take over the presidency of the UN Human Rights Committee on 1 January, UKOM said that the country would focus above all on respect of children's rights, gender equality and empowerment of women, and the rights of the elderly.

The former spokesman of ruling SYRIZA Gavriil Sakellaridis has been appointed as the new director of rights watchdog Amnesty International's Greece section.

The 37-year-old economist, who also ran for Athens mayor in 2014, will be filling a post that has been empty for about three months following the resignation of AI Greece's former director, Heracles-Spyridon Aktypis.

DPS leader Mustafa Karadayi described as a "very superficial move" the decision of the government to nominate European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva for UN Secretary General.

A parliamentary commission has adopted a protocol of the Council of Europe (CoE) prohibiting the cloning of humans. 

The protocol will become part of domestic law after being approved by the Turkish parliament's general assembly.

Romanian journalists are protesting against a draft law on defamation, which was initiated by the leftist Social Democratic Party, PSD, calling it a device to shield politicians from criticism.

"This law aims to protect the politicians from being criticised for their actions," TV producer Radu Banciu claims.

The European Union will mark this year's Human Rights Day with movies addressing individual rights, human dignity and the experiences of a varied group of people, bringing 33 documentaries to audiences in Ankara between Dec 7 and 20 and in Istanbul between Dec. 9 and 18.

"2015 has been a challenging year for upholding human rights in both Turkey and the European Union.

Travelzoo’s latest survey revealed the dirty secrets of travelers from around the world… from those most likely to take hotel toiletries to having flings with the local talent. These shameless tourists have no dignity from the 64% of Americans that pee in the pool to those that reserve lounge chairs by leaving a towel on the seat. Then there are the others that do much worse!

Donald Tusk, the president of the European council stressed in his first interview with European media that a Greek exit from the euro zone, accidental or not, is an "idiotic scenario" that needs to be prevented.