Society

June 12 is the World Day Against Child Labor, but it seems that the fight against child labor has not yet started in Greece, where 100,000 “invisible” kids work long hours for low wages. George Moschos, Deputy Ombudsman in charge...

The local community of Akropotamos in Kavala, Makedonia, is mourning the death of two teenagers 16 and 18 years old, who were killed when the car the 16-year-old was driving went off the road. The tragic incident happened on the...

A year after beginning the ironically-named Xenios Zeus (Hospitality) program to round up illegal immigrants and then deport them, Greece's detention centers are full of them and there's no room for more, police and immigration officials said. Police are now...

According to Kathimerini, more and more Greeks are becoming overweight in our days. The  Memorandum and the crucial financial conditions have led Greeks to eat more fast food, according to the Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity (HMAO) which is...

For the second year in a row and wanting to send a message of solidarity to the Greek people, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Austria is organizing the Pentecost Sunday on June 23, in the historic district of the...

The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the ancient theater located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, hosted a performance that was free for 1,500 unemployed Greek citizens, who got to hear Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. There are more...

The Canadian activist journalist and author Naomi Klein, declared her solidarity to the Greek people, who have been living under the shock doctrine the last years, as she stated in a press conference she gave at the Mikropolis Social...

From September, one thousand people will have the chance to go on a few-days' free vacation through the social tourism programs which are reborn from the ashes under the umbrella of the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED). On June 4, the...

What else will we see? A notice on trash bin in Patras, " consumption by humans is forbidden," deterring those who scrounge their meal in the trash daily to give it another thought. According to dete.gr, that published the specific...

"IMF – get out of Greece," yelled about 7,000 Germans in Frankfurt,  in a protest against Europe’s austerity policies. On June 2, the second day of protests in Frankfurt, the German police tried to dissolve the thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators...

Professors at the University of Thessaly Byron Kotzamanis and E. Androulaki are working on a research paper shedding light on the population growth of modern Greece from its foundation in 1828 to date. The turbulent history of modern Greece,...

The protest against the demolition of Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul turned into a massive anti-government demonstration after the Turkish riot police tried to violently break up a sit-in in the square. Soon enough thousands of protestors took the...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which is based in Strasbourg, France, condemned Greece for violating the European Convention on Human Rights provisions about the right to education. The case, Lavida and Others v. Greece concerning, according to the...

Greek citizens tend to feel negative about the future within the European Union (EU), according to a nationwide survey presented by the University of Athens, conducted within a series of actions organized by the university aiming at supporting students...

Busting another myth about Greeks - apparently they aren't as lazy as the German say - the Parish-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has reported that they worked 2,032 hours a year in 2011, considerably higher than...