Greece

The year 2022 has seen multiple challenges and crises come to life including a rising cost of living, increased rent, climate emergency, the ongoing pandemic, and slow progress in gender parity.  Global leaders are facing a series of economic and...

Greek basketball superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo sent a message of gender equality during the opening of his new store at the Athens International Airport on Friday. The "Greek Freak," who was born and raised in Athens and made it big in...

According to the Gender Equality Index 2019, published recently by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), Greece ranks, once again, really low in terms of gender equality among EU member states. ''The EU continues its snail’s pace when it...

Greece's Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, admitted that he is unhappy with the small number of women in Cabinet, during a BBC interview on Thursday. With a Cabinet of 22 people consisting of only two women, Mitsotakis claims that he wants...

Many Greek men may be sending flowers to their beloved women on Thursday, but the fact remains that Greece ranks last in the EU in regards to gender equality according to the European Institute for Gender Equality. Greeks love women,...

Orthodox monks on Greece's Mount Athos have vowed to uphold their centuries-old ban on all female visitors, after a new government-sponsored gender identity law enabled citizens to change their gender at will. "In light of this legislation, we wonder what...

Church bells have rung in a western Greek diocese to protest a new law that makes it easier for citizens to change their legal gender. Under the guidance of ultra-conservative Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop Amvrosios of Kalavryta, clerics in his diocese...

Europe is making progress on gender equality but "at a snail's pace," according to the updated gender equality index for 2017 issued by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) on Wednesday. The European Union as a whole scored...

The Greek Parliament approved a government bill allowing people from the age of 15 to change their gender identity without medical treatment. A total of 147 MP’s voted in favour out of the 285 who turned up to vote, while...

Greek MPs are engaged in two days of debate on the legal recognition of gender identity. If; as expected, the majority vote in favour of the new bill, Greeks will have the right to decide their own gender identity...

At the age of 15 you are not allowed to drink alcohol, to work, to drive a car, to vote, to marry, to join the army and so on. In Greece, and most countries in the world, a 15-year...

"This is the ultimate appeal to the political world as a whole to assume their responsibilities and withdraw the bill," said Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos. The Holy Synod of the Hierarchy of the Church of Greece, which...

On Monday, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, criticized the government and expressed his opposition over the gender identification bill to be tabled in parliament this week. The bill - that is expected to be voted by the majority in...

While initially being totally against gender reassignment, junior coalition partners Independent Greeks (ANEL) will now vote in favor of the bill. The bill says that any individual can change the sex on their birth certificate, based on how they feel. ANEL...

The Bill on the Legal Recognition of Gender Identity and the National Mechanism for the Preparation, Monitoring and Evaluation of Action Plans for Children's Rights have been submitted to the House. With the new bill, a person, regardless of age,...