The Hellenic League for Human Rights, founded in 1953, is the oldest Non Governmental Organisation for human rights protection and promotion in Greece. The League takes action in the field of promotion and defense of individual rights and freedoms. The prevention of violations of human and civil rights and contribution or the protection of human rights is the League's fundamental intervention pillar. The league actualizes its goals through the research and study of problems involving human rights protection, both in collective and in individual level, the submission of proposals to the administration for the solution of such problems, legal aid to victims of human rights violations, sensibilisation of public opinion, consolidation of public dialogue on human rights through the organization of press conferences, colloquies, publications active interventions and other actions judged necessary.
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