Injustice

Croatia's Foreign Minister Miro Kovac unequivocally denied on Monday that anti-Semitism, racism, and extremism are prevalent in his country, The Jerusalem Post reports.

The Pentagon is poised to release a much-anticipated report on shutting down Guantanamo Bay, even as Congress battles to block the transfer of the military prison inmates from Cuba to US soil.
 

While Ancient Greece is remembered for its philosophy and architecture, the ancient Greeks brutally sacrificed their ugliest to maintain the common good, in a custom known as the pharmakos ritual.

The controversial Holocaust Memorial at the northern port city of Kavala was desecrated just two weeks after being inaugurated on June 7. The black marble monument at the site where 1,484 Jews were arrested and detained before being sent to death camps was covered in blue paint. The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece issued a statement:

Police fired stun grenades to disperse a rally by Ethiopian Israelis demonstrating in central Tel Aviv on May 3 against alleged police brutality and widespread discrimination.

U.S. Singer/songwriter Meredith O'Connor, aged 18, has been in Athens since Tuesday. She is here on a mission to visit schools in Attica, where Athens is located, in order to talk about bullying as part of a program broadcast on the YouSmile digital platform to be set up by the Greek children's charity 'Smile of the Child' on April 4.

"Gender, ethnic and other prejudices widespread"

BELGRADE -- Nevena Petrusic has observed that gender, ethnic and other stereotypes and prejudices, are still "widespread and deeply rooted in Serbia."

The commissioner for protection of equality also said there were "high levels of social distance towards certain ethnic, religious, sexual and other minorities."

The Piraeus-Herakleion ferry taking Vangelis Giakoumakis body home was accompanied by friends and relatives shattered by the news of the death of the missing student at 8 p.m. on Monday. Details concerning the last days of his life at the Dairy College of Ioannina where he had been studying were filled with loneliness and incessant bullying that caused the young boy to commit suicide.

The latest report published by international campaign group Amnesty International on Wednesday said attacks on the gay community were handled inappropriately by justice systems throughout the Balkans and Roma continue to face discrimination.

The latest State of the World's Human Rights report profiled the state of human rights in 160 countries and territories in 2014.

The Council of Europe has commended Greece for a new anti-racism law but warns in a new report that xenophobia, violence against immigrants and discrimination against Roma are persistent problems.