Discrimination

The painful lesson of the US election is that no popular discontent, no matter how regressive it may seem, no matter how violently expressed, should simply be dismissed as "extreme." Even when those phobias are irrational, they shape political realities.

A vast survey by an EU rights body has found that 44% of LGBTIQ people in Greece have faced discrimination in at least one area of their life in the year before the survey. 

Although the figure is the 5th highest in the EU, it has decreased since the previous EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) survey in 2019, where 51% of respondents in Greece had faced discrimination. 

A damning report from the US State Department has unveiled a troubling reality of systematic racial and ethnic violence and discrimination against Bulgarians in the Republic of North Macedonia. The document, part of the State Department's 2023 report on human rights, sheds light on concerning incidents of violence and oppression targeting Bulgarians in the country.

Lawsuit and legal action against Akrita by Mareva Grabovski for slanderous libel – Hudacious and unprovoked the post, I will go as a witness in court to defend my wife, says the prime minister

Two police officers in Attica are accused of forgery and defamation related to an online posting of a fake order attributed to a senior police official, the Civil Protection Ministry said on Wednesday. 

The senior officer became aware of the online post and issued a complaint on Tuesday, after which the two officers voluntarily appeared before the Internal Affairs Department.

In a major shift in the resolution of defamation offenses on social media, a new judicial reform envisages to only impose fines, closing off the litigation process, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The day when same-sex civil marriage and gay couples' right to be treated equally as parents are recognized by the Greek state will be historic. Greece will finally be among the countries that do not discriminate against their citizens on the basis of sexual orientation. The truth is that our country was very late in abolishing unfair, immoral and irrational discrimination.

Greece is one of the worst countries in the European Union for a child to live in, as it appears that the youngest citizens pay the highest price for the chronic inadequacies of the state, the low quality of the education system and the health system, as well as the inability of the social protection system to really and effectively support them.

Macedonians think of themselves as open-hearted - but phobias about foreigners, gays, the disabled - anyone who looks different - remain entrenched.

The new Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family will work on "strengthening the family" and on the "harmonization that must exist between professional and family life," its first minister has said.

Sofia Zacharaki was speaking at the handover ceremony at the former Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, which will be split in two to create the new ministry.