2006 NEWS ARCHIVES
EFA-Rainbow Responds to US State Department Report
EFA-Rainbow - Press Release Regarding the recent US State Department Report on Human Rights Practices in Greece, EFA-Rainbow would like to highlight the following: For yet another time, our country is under heavy criticism for applying restrictions to the freedom of association and speech, regarding its Macedonian and other ethnic minorities.
US State Department Continues to Misrepresent the Macedonian Minority in Greece
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International - Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) expresses its profound disapproval of the US State Department's systematic policy of questioning the legitimacy of the Macedonian minority in Greece. Every year, the US State Department issues its "Country Reports on Human ...
EFA-Rainbow Brings the Slanderers in Front of Justice
EFA-Rainbow - Press Release The European Free Alliance - Rainbow, through 4 members of its Political Secretariat, registered today a complaint against Greek diplomat Georgios Ayfantis and its political supervisors at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, charging them of defamation. Last November, in front of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Legal Affairs & Human Rights Committee), G.
Macedonian Minority Organization, OMO Ilinden, Wins Another European Court of Human Rights Case Against Bulgaria
Press release issued by the Registrar Source: http://www.echr.coe.int/Eng/Press/2006/Jan/Chamberjudgments190106.htm Chamber judgments concerning Austria, Bulgaria and Cyprus The United Macedonian Organisation Ilinden and Others v. Bulgaria (no. 59491/00) Violation of Article 11 The applicants are the United Macedonian Organisation Ilinden ("Ilinden”) and nine members of its management committee.