Feminist organizations rallied at Syntagma Square on Wednesday evening in observance of International Women's Day.
Chanting feminist slogans against the exploitation of women and human trafficking, they marched from Syntagma to Omonia Square, coinciding with evening protest rallies about last week's fatal train crash at Tempi, central Greece.
Feminist organizations rallied at Syntagma Square on Wednesday evening in observance of International Women's Day.
Chanting feminist slogans against the exploitation of women and human trafficking, they marched from Syntagma to Omonia Square, coinciding with evening protest rallies about last week's fatal train crash at Tempi, central Greece.
Protesters also went to the headquarters of the Hellenic Railways Organizations (OSE) at Metaxourgion, where they threw rocks at riot police and the latter responded with teargas and flash bangs.
Moreover, the Hellenic Red Cross, on the occasion of International Women's Day (March 8), honored the female volunteers of all its Corps. Women volunteers, despite the difficulties they face every day, are constantly and uninterruptedly at the forefront of the offer, wherever the need arises. In the 146 years of march, the volunteers of the E.E.S. have played a decisive role so that the largest and oldest humanitarian organization in Greece can stand by the needs of society and successfully implement programs and actions aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable groups and people.
Through a video created by the Hellenic Red Cross, it honors the women of all its Corps.
The President of the Hellenic Red Cross, Dr. Antonios Avgerinos, said characteristically: "We sincerely thank all the volunteers of the E.E.S. for the enormous humanitarian work they carry out. We must not forget that the admirable and inexhaustible soul of the Greek nurse, especially in the epic of the 1940s, wrote golden pages of sacrifice and became synonymous with heroism and self-sacrifice. Today, the volunteers of the E.E.S. they continue with unparalleled zeal to offer their services on a daily basis, demonstrating a high sense of responsibility, self-denial and self-sacrifice as well as inexhaustible reserves of mental endurance. We admire them, we cheer them and we applaud them loudly."
