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A recent high-profile court ruling and policy change in Greece mark momentous human rights victories for migrants and children.
In October, an Athens court ruled that the country’s far-right xenophobic political party, Golden Dawn, was operating as a criminal organization. The court convicted some of the group’s members of beating and even killing migrants, asylum seekers, and activists.
Then, in December, Greece’s parliament abolished the harmful practice of detaining asylum-seeking and migrant children who arrived in Greece without their parents or a guardian.
“When this type of impact happens, it gives you confidence that things can change,” said Human Rights Watch researcher Eva Cosse, who has tirelessly advocated on these issues for a decade. Here, she shares more about this hard-won impact and what she hopes will happen next.
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