04/04/2025 Posts,

The President of MFHR, Professor Sicilianos, at the French-speaking Universities of Canada

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

11/03/2025 Posts,

THE PRESIDENT OF GREVIO AND MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OF MFHR MARIA-ANDRIANI KOSTOPOULOU AT AN IMPORTANT SIDE-EVENT OF CSW69

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

07/03/2025 Awards & Scholarships, Posts,

Call for the MFHR Awards Competition for Greek and Cypriot Universities 2025

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

27/11/2024 Posts, Press Releases,

1 in 3 women in the European Union has suffered some form of gender-based violence!

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.

18/11/2024 Posts, Press Releases,

Keynote Speech by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr. Volker Türk

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

23/07/2022 Awards & Scholarships, Posts,

INVITATION TO THE 13TH ANNUAL CONFERMENT OF THE MFHR AWARDS

The Foundation will confer awards-scholarships for the Summer Course of the International Institute for Human Rights René Cassin, in Strasbourg, to those students who wrote the best essays in this year’s topics, selected by the MFHR.