Sexual ethics

The first official survey on workplace sexual harassment and violence targeting women in Greece was released Monday by the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE).

To address the lack of data and state accountability in protecting victims, the study found that 31.4% of 876 participants in Greece experienced workplace sexual harassment, 75.3% of whom were women.

Former employees of the luxury London department store Harrods have accused its former owner, Mohamed Al-Fayed, of rape and sexual assault. Five women claim they were raped, while over 20 former employees allege that the billionaire, who passed away last year at the age of 94, sexually assaulted them.

The 18-year-old, accused of raping a 20-year-old in Thessaloniki, has been released after her testimony to the investigating judge.

An antiquities guard who worked on the southeastern Aegean island of Nisyros was arrested on Saturday morning in the town of Iraklio on Crete following numerous complaints of sexual indecency against minors. 

A 35-year-old Greek YouTuber has been arrested for physically, verbally and sexually exploiting and torturing people with disabilities and minors for financial gain.

EU member countries and lawmakers reached an agreement on Tuesday on the bloc's first rules to tackle violence against women, the European Parliament and officials said.

The law seeks to protect women in the 27-nation European Union from gender-based violence, forced marriages, female genital mutilation and online harassment.

A three-judge Juvenile Court in Athens on Wednesday convicted eight boys over the horrific gang-rape of a 15-year-old schoolmate in western Athens in late 2022. The court acquitted the four girls who were tried with their peers and who had allegedly witnessed the abuse.

Guardian News & Media, the publisher of the Guardian and Observer newspapers, has apologized to several women who said that one of its star columnists, Nick Cohen, groped them or made unwanted sexual advances.

A Thessaloniki criminal court of appeal sentenced a man to six years and three months in jail after finding him guilty of a revenge porn charge.

Women march to protest against sexual harassment in Geneva, Switzerland, 07 May 2022. EPA-EFE/SALVATORE DI NOLFI