i-REDi-RED assists HLHR-KEMO in the implementation of the RAXEN project
Hellenic League for Human Rights is the leader of the HLHR-KEMO RAXEN National Focal Point, contracted by the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency of Vienna.
HLHR-KEMO cooperates also with the Greek Ombudsman and the Greek Forum of Migrants as subcontracting partners.
The task of the RAXEN NFP is to collect and provide reliable and comparable data and information at a national level on the phenomena of racism, xenophobia and antisemitism and islamophobia and to deliver relevant Reports and information to the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of Vienna.
The Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR) and the Research Centre for Minority Groups (KEMO) are long standing partners in scientific, academic research and public discourse and intervention. As key actors in their respective fields in Greece, HLHR and KEMO provide unique and innovative perspectives in the thematic areas of fundamental rights, rights of immigrants and minorities and related social phenomena, such as racism, discrimination and social inclusion/exclusion.
HLHR profile
Hellenic League is the oldest Non Governmental Organization for human rights protection and promotion in Greece. The League was founded in 1953. Its board members are eminent personalities from the political and academic field. The League plays a key role as a major point of reference for the civil society of human rights in Greece.
The members of Hellenic League compose an interdisciplinary pool of experts. Their fields of expertise range from legal studies and political sciences to history and sociology.
The League has published a sheer number of press releases and it has organised numerous public colloquies for different human rights issues in the last ten years (see, www.hlhr.gr ), while has published one book: “Fifty years (1953-2003) of human rights in Greece”. .
Since its very foundation, the Hellenic League is the affiliated member of the Iternational Federation for Human Rights (Fédération Internationale des Droits de l’Homme) and represents the Federation’s human rights network in the country.
It enjoys steady links and a particularly close cooperation with minority bodies and individuals. League’s web pages are an actual internent portal for the information regarding the human rights in Greece. Furthermore, much of the League’s output is readily available on its internet site, making its scientific material easily accessible for the general public.
KEMO profile
KEMO’s work plays a key role as a major point of reference for the civil society of minorities and all the pertinent research in Greece. Set up in 1996, it the first research centre in the country that deals with the systematic study of the minority phenomenon.
The members of KEMO compose an interdisciplinary pool of experts. Their fields of expertise range from legal studies to history, linguistics, anthropology, migration studies, sociology, et.al.
In its various activities, KEMO has established a particular legacy of combining the academic scholarship with public intervention and public awareness. This is feasible due to KEMO’s long term cooperation and contacts with minority and immigrant grassroots organisations.
It is an organisation which is particularly receptive to international input and civil society cooperation regarding the minority phenomena. On the list of KEMO’s activities the variety of co-organised events such as conferences, projects, Greek-Turkish co-operation programmes etc. are particularly noticeable.
It enjoys steady links and a particularly close cooperation with minority bodies and individuals. KEMO’s web pages are an actual internet portal for what concerns minority information in Greece. Also much of the Center’s output is readily available on its internet site, making its scientific material easy to accessible for the general public.
KEMO is based in Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece, in the vicinity of the geographical concentration of the major minority groups in the country, as well as a main entrance point for immigrants. This is also particularly useful because Northern Greece is a focal location in Greece for issues of ethnocentrism.
REPORTS
HLHR-KEMO / i-RED - Housing conditions of Roma in Greece: Vicious Circles & |Consolidated Myths
Miltos Pavlou (ed.), authors: M.Pavlou, K.Lykovardi, D.Hormovitis, I.Prokopi
October 2009
Miltos Pavlou, Yannis Ktistakis, George Mavrommatis
December 2008
HLHR-KEMO Annual Report 2007
Racism and Discrimination against Immigrants and Minorities in Greece: the State of Play
Miltos Pavlou
April 2007
Greece - European Migration Dialogue Country Report 2005
Miltos Pavlou, Irini Avramopoulou, Leonidas Karakatsanis
In: Current Immigration Debates in Europe: A Publication of the European Migration Dialogue
Jan Niessen, Yongmi Schibel and Cressida Thompson (eds.)