File Credits
Authors:
M. Alevizopoulou
Y. Baboulias
M. Panayiotakis
Y. O. Papadimitriou
A. Zenakos
Photos:
A. Zavallis,
Eurokinissi
Translations:
M. Christou
Institutions & Deinstitutionalisation
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When a Child is Abused, Who Do You Call?
In Greece, just when the State should spread a protective net to break the fall of those most vulnerable, the exact opposite happens: after being abandoned, neglected, or abused by those closest to them, children[...] -
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In Greece, just when the State should spread a protective net to break the fall of those most vulnerable, the exact opposite happens: after being abandoned, neglected, or abused by those closest to them, children[...] -
Plans for National Inaction
Every government since 2009 has laid out its own “National Action Plan” on child protection. What they all share is that almost none of their grand designs were ever implemented. -
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Every government since 2009 has laid out its own “National Action Plan” on child protection. What they all share is that almost none of their grand designs were ever implemented. -
“We do not need networks, we need institutions”
The eminent psychiatrist and Director of the Mental Health and Social Welfare Department of the Institute of Child Health insists that what is most urgent in the Greek child protection system is for it to[...] -
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The eminent psychiatrist and Director of the Mental Health and Social Welfare Department of the Institute of Child Health insists that what is most urgent in the Greek child protection system is for it to[...] -
Hell as an Institution
The Lechaina Unit for disabled children has been called many names over the years: “hellhole”, “a stain”, “Europe’s hidden shame”. Pictures of children reaching adulthood in cages, their deaths marked by an olive tree planted[...] -
“They enter as children and depart as olives”
The Zero Tolerance activist and film director speaks about what he witnessed in the Lechaina Institution, where disabled children have been reaching adulthood in cages, their deaths marked by an olive tree planted in memoriam,[...] -
The Prosecutor’s Children
Vulnerable and abandoned children languish in unsuitable hospitals for years in Greece, even when they are not ill. A new foster care system might offer a solution, but it remains incomplete. -
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An investigation into the failures of the child protection system in Greece.