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Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:

Economic and Social:
  • Business and Industry
  • Children
  • Criminal Justice
  • Environment
  • Extreme poverty
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Industrial Development
  • Justice
  • Law of the Sea and Antarctica
  • Migration
  • Minority Rights
  • Population
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Sustainable Development
  • Technical Cooperation
  • United Nations Funding
  • Women
  • Youth

  • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Policy advice
  • Research
  • The girl child
  • Violence against women
  • Women and the environment
  • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Greece
  • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1998
    Organizational structure: The Foundation is administered by a five-member Governing Board whose current composition is as follows: * President: Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos, Professor Emerita and former Rector, Panteion University, Athens * Vice-President: Gerasimos Arsenis, former Minister and former Governor of the Bank of Greece * Secretary-General: Antonis Bredimas, Law Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens * Treasurer:Sotiris Mousouris, former Assistant Secretary-General, UN * Member: Petros Damianos, High School Director, Avlona’s Special Juvenile Detention Center The Foundation is directed by Mr. Spyridon-Heracles Aktypis (Ph.D. in International Law from the University Panthéon-Assas Paris II), Associate Professor at the European University Cyprus and at the Open University of Cyprus. The International Advisory Committee of the Foundation is comprised of the following experts: * Prof. A. Baka, Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Director, School of Public Administration; Budapest, Hungary * Ass. Prof. Dr. W. Benedek, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz; Austria * Prof. D. Bindschedler-Robert, former Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Bern, Switzerland * Prof. T. van Boven, Director, Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, University of Limburg; Maastricht, The Netherlands * Prof. G. Cohen-Jonathan, University of Pantheon-Assas (Paris II); Honorary Dean of the School of Law, University of Strasbourg; France * Judge H. Danelius, Swedish Supreme Court; former Vice-President of the European Commission of Human Rights; Stockholm, Sweden * Prof. E. Decaux, University of Paris-X, Nanterre; France * Prof. M. Delmas-Marty, Institut Universitaire de France, Universite de Pantheon-Sorbonne (Paris I); Directeur de l'Institut de Droit Compare; Paris, France * A. Eide, Director, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights; Member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; Oslo, Norway * Prof. R. Levine, School of Medicine, University of Yale; New Haven, USA * L. Loucaides, Judge, European Court of Human Rights; Nicosia, Cyprus * Prof. C. Medina, University of Diego Portales; Member of the ICCPR Committee; Santiago, Chile * Prof. W. Schabas, National University of Ireland; Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights; Ireland * Prof. P. de Senarclens, University of Lausanne; former Director of Human Rights Division, UNESCO; President of OMCT; Geneva, Switzerland * Prof. D. Shelton, University of Santa Clara; California, USA * Prof. Dr. B. Simma, Director, Institut fur Internationales Recht-Volkerrecht, Ludwig Maximilians University; Munich, Germany * Prof. D. Simon, Institut Universitaire de France, Robert Schuman University; Strasbourg, France * Prof. L. Wiseberg, Executive Director, Human Rights Internet; Ottawa, Canada The Foundation's staff works in departments focused on specific fields, as follows: * Scientific and Research Department * Judicial and Extra-judicial Department * Administrative Department, including the library section * Youth group Experts and external researchers collaborate on a temporary basis, according to the needs of the Foundation and on certain special issues.
    Funding structure:
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
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