News & Updates
EFAY Visits EFA-Rainbow
EFA-Rainbow - Press Release www.florina.org EFA-Rainbow was pleased and honored to welcome in Florina/Lerin on the 16th of March the EFA Youth Coordinator Ms Eva Bidania Ibargutxi. During her 3-day visit, the Basque minority & human rights activist met with members of EFA Rainbow Political Secretariat and Youth, EFA-EPP Political Advisor on minority issues in the Balkans Dr.
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.
Macedonian Minority Party to go to Court Over Greek Allegations
Florina - Lerin, by Georgios N. Papadakis EFA-Rainbow, the Macedonian minority party in Greece is planning to register a complaint in the Greek courts against a Greek diplomat and his superiors (Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for libel. In a press release issued yesterday, the party states that it can ...
Greek Diplomats and Members of the Greek Parliament Lie to the Council of Europe
Rainbow/Vinozhito - Press Release Florina / Lerin - Surprised and bitterly disappointed, the European Free Alliance-Rainbow recently witnessed -- through the reports of the Greek Helsinki Monitor -- and for yet another time, Greek diplomats and members of the Greek Parliament shamelessly lying in front of an international organization.
EFA-Rainbow Delegation Visits Brussels
Rainbow/Vinozhito - Press Release Florina / Lerin - Surprised and bitterly disappointed, the European Free Alliance-Rainbow recently witnessed -- through the reports of the Greek Helsinki Monitor -- and for yet another time, Greek diplomats and members of the Greek Parliament shamelessly lying in front of an international organization.
Greek Ministry Refuses to Meet Macedonian Minority at Linguistic Diversity Meeting
Florina - Lerin, by Georgios N. Papadakis The Macedonian minority organization Vinozhito/Rainbow and its representatives have been officially excluded by the Greek Ministry of Education from a meeting on linguistic diversity issues in Greece. Special Secretary on Intercultural Education at the Ministry, Mrs Ismini Kriari-Catranis, was supposed to meet tomorrow morning with Mr.
GHM/MRG-G Press Release on Landmark ECHR Judgments on Freedom of Association and Assembly of Macedonians in Bulgaria and Greece
GHM/MRG-G Press Release on Landmark ECHR Judgments on Freedom of Association and Assembly of Macedonians in Bulgaria and Greece