PROFILE OF ETEPE – GHM – MRG-G – SOKADRE – HUG
Greek Helsinki Monitor (GHM), founded in 1993, monitors, publishes, lobbies, and litigates on human and minority rights and anti-discrimination issues in Greece and, from time to time, in the Balkans. It also monitors Greek and, when opportunity arises, Balkan media for stereotypes and hate speech. It issues press releases and prepares (usually jointly with other NGOs) detailed annual reports. It has been submitting parallel reports and communications to UN Treaty Bodies; applications and third party interventions to the ECtHR; communications on the execution of ECtHR judgments to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers. It also publishes specialized reports on ill-treatment and on ethno-national, ethno-linguistic, religious and immigrant communities, in Greece and in other Balkan countries. It operates a web site (http://greekhelsinki.worldpress.com), a specialized website on racist crimes in Greece (https://racistcrimeswatch.wordpress.com) and a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/panayote) covering human rights issues and comprehensive and comparable presentations of minorities in the Balkan region. GHM is a member of the European Implementation Network (EIN); GHM’s Spokesperson Panayote Dimitras has been a member of EIN’s Board since 2018; GHM is a member too of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) Network and GHM’s Spokesperson Panayote Dimitras is an OMCT General Assembly member. GHM is also a member of the Global Alliance Against Digital Hate and Extremism (GAADHE) and GHM’s Spokesperson Panayote Dimitras has been a member of GAADHE’s Steering Committee since 2023. GHM is also member of the Legal Experts Advisory Panel (LEAP) and Justicia European Rights Network, the International Detention Coalition (IDC), the International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH), Justice and Environment, the Global Alliance Against Digital Hate & Extremism (GAADHE), the ERRC Roma Rights Network, the Network Against the Extreme Right, the Campaign for the access to asylum, and the Greek Network for the Right to Housing. Past websites are archived for the period 1995-2004 here, and for the period 2005-2014 here.
Minority Rights Group – Greece (MRG-G), founded in 1992, focuses on studies of minorities, in Greece and in the Balkans. In 1998, MRG-G co-founded with GHM the Center of Documentation and Information on Minorities in Europe – Southeast Europe (CEDIME-SE) which contributes to GHM’s web site and two web lists with material on minorities in the region. It has prepared comprehensive reports on ethno-national, ethno-linguistic, and religious communities in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, and Romania, available here. In 1999-2002, MRG-G organized in Greece training and regional seminars for minorities as well as a mentoring program for tent-dwelling Roma. Out of the latter emerged, in 2001, the Coordinated Organizations and Communities for Roma Human Rights in Greece (SOKADRE), a network of 30 Roma communities and 5 Roma and non-Roma NGOs.
The Coordinated Organizations and Communities for Roma Human Rights in Greece (SOKADRE) is a network founded in 2001; its members include 30 Roma communities and 5 Greek NGOs that have been working on Roma rights. It is legally registered in Greece through its managing NGO Communication and Political Research Society (ETEPE), accredited as NGO by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Hellenic International Development Cooperation Department – Hellenic Aid (YDAS). SOKADRE advocates for and litigates on the rights of the destitute Roma of Greece, mainly in the areas of housing and preventing evictions, education, access to social services, proper civil registration, ill-treatment and non-discrimination including fighting racial profiling by law enforcement agencies. It operates through a network of volunteer representatives in the 30 member communities and in several other non-member communities.
GHM, MRG-G, and SOKADRE are legally registered in Greece through their managing NGO Communication and Political Research Society (ETEPE), accredited as NGO by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Hellenic International Development Cooperation Department – ‘Hellenic Aid’ (No. 306/2004). ETEPE is managed and legally represented by its manager Panayote Dimitras.
The Humanist Union of Greece (HUG) is an association of persons founded in January 2010. It aims to promote secularism and a humanist view of cultural, social and ethical values and to work for social and cultural progress. It is a member of the European Humanist Federation (EHF) and the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU). HUG‘s Spokesperson Panayote Dimitras was a member of EHF‘s Board of Directors in 2014 – 2020 and its Secretary General in 2020.
They are championing the removal of registration of religion in birth – marriage – death certificates; the abolition of religious oath from all public procedures; the removal of religious symbols from all schools and public buildings; the separation of church from state; the criminal prosecution of hate speech and the fight against all forms of discrimination.
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Contact
Address: P.O. Box 60820, GR-15304 Glyka Nera
Telephone: (+30) 2103472259 Fax: (+30) 2106018760
E-mail: panayotedimitras@gmail.com
Web Page: http://greekhelsinki.worldpress.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/panayote
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PDimitras
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