Extension of the assignment submission deadline until 30th of May. Awards: Τhree scholarships (travel and tuition fees) for attending Module 1 on “International Human Rights Law” of the 54th Summer Course on Human Rights Studies, 23.6.2025 – 4.7.2025 in Strasbourg, organized by René Cassin International Institute for Human Rights. Assignments’ Topics: 1. “Grave Violations of … Read more
The President of MFHR, Professor Linos-Alexander Sicilianos, gave a series of lectures last week at French-speaking universities in Canada, on topics related to climate change and human rights, the challenges that the European Court of Human Rights faces in the current context and human rights before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Professor … Read more
The President of GREVIO and member of the Governing Board of MFHR, Maria-Andriani Kostopoulou, participated on 10 March 2025 in an important side-event of the Council of Europe titled: “Threats and opportunities of Digital Technologies: women in the public eye”, organized in the framework of the 69th Session of the United Nations Commission on the … Read more
Scholarships for the 54th Summer Course of Human Rights Studies of the International Institute for Human Rights René Cassin The Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR) announces a competition for the award of three prizes to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Greek and Cypriot universities for the three best original papers in Greek, which have … Read more
The Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights presents some of the “key findings” of the latest EU Survey, which are available here. For the full text of the survey in English click here.
In the packed Great Hall of the University of Athens, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Volker Türk, delivered, on 18 November 2024, quite a powerful keynote speech on the current crisis of human rights, titled «The centrality of Human Rights in the current context».The High Commissioner particularly noted that this crisis … Read more
The Foundation will confer awards-scholarships for the Summer Course of the International Institute for Human Rights René Cassin, in Strasbourg, to the students who wrote the best essays on this year’s topics, selected by the MFHR.