Projects

Operation of an observatory for the protection of human rights of Roma and strengthening local communities and relevant stakeholders – ROM

Project Promoter: Equal Society

Relative Call: Increased support for Human Rights

Project Duration: 20 months

Despite the interventions implemented over recent decades, Roma in Greece continue to experience multiple discriminations, while the current pandemic of coronavirus has brought to light again the dozens of problems that Roma are facing, in particular with regard to their living conditions and their health status. Yet, according to...

Support and empowerment of social vulnerable groups and their right to health and medicine access

Project Promoter: GIVMED

Relative Call: Vulnerable groups empowered

The objective of the project is to empower socially vulnerable groups on the following bases: 1.Informing them of their rights regarding healthcare. 2.Providing education in terms of handling medicines and medication compliance. 3.Facilitating their access to the medicines they need through a specific application for smartphones. In order to...

Repower

Project Promoter: Hellenic Paralympic Committee

Relative Call: Vulnerable groups empowered

Project Duration: 24 months

People with disabilities are not a homogeneous target group. Even though the international regulatory framework has recognized the importance of fulfilling their needs, as far as the sector of human rights is concerned, it has disregarded through history the subgroup of refugees and immigrants with disabilities. This specific group...

Digital RiSe (Digital Rights & Security)

Project Promoter: Homo Digitalis

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 5

New technologies could assist the Greek law enforcement authorities in combating crime. However, the use of such technologies shall be in full compliance with the applicable European legislation and case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), so that the Fundamental Rights of Privacy and Data...

Small Buddies

Project Promoter: Challedu

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 19

CSR Institute(2016) underlines that only 65 companies produced CSR report. Despite the fact that SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) constitute a European Directive, only 26% of total budget addresses social causes. Small or new NGOs are rarely funded by CSR (National Social Research Center,2015). According to companies high cost, lack...

Practices and Perspectives in Intercountry Adoptions

Project Promoter: International Social Service – Hellenic Branch (ISS – Hellenic Branch)

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 18

The project concerns intercountry adoption and at this stage we are interested in the processes that exist for the realization of an intercountry adoption. Greece, in the middle of the last century, was a sending country of children for adoption in in Europe and the USA. Towards the end...

New Perspectives in Child Protection Policy – the systemic approach

Project Promoter: SOS Children’s Villages Greece

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 24

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the European Legislation, the Council of Europe directives require the modernization of child protection systems with the aim of restricting institution-based models of out of parental care children and the promotion of foster care as a key factor for De-Institutionalization. Our...

Erasing stigma. Upon our word.

Project Promoter: Society of Social Psychiatry P. Sakellaropoulos

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 24

The project aims to research and challenge the stigmatization of mental health service users through the Greek media (language, images, discourse) that generate or preserve stereotypes around mental health per se leading a large population to social and economic exclusion. The objective is to suggest changes in the stigmatizing...

Strengthening transparency and accountability in financing prevention and repression of forest fires with the contribution of civil society

Project Promoter: WWF Greece

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 24

In 2018 the forest fire in Mati/Attica tragically revealed that thousands of fires that burst in Greece every year, apart from the natural environment, are a growing threat to the citizens. Integrated prevention and firefighting requires the establishment of sound operational frameworks, the mobilization of civil society and the...

Legal aid watch

Project Promoter: Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR)

Relative Call: Strengthened civil society advocacy and watchdog role

Project Duration: 18

The project aims to promote the institution of legal aid in Greece and in particular to collect research data on its practical application. The aim of the project is to record the problems and highlight best practices, to advocate with the relevant bodies and to provide recommendations for improvement....