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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS — Praising Greece and conveying a message from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Τrudeau, the Canadian Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rob Oliphant, stressed the importance of the international online conference "Human Rights in the Workplace" in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) released on Wednesday.
The conference – in which he will also participate – will be held on June 25 and is an initiative of the Greek government to support diversity, aiming to launch a public debate on this issue and highlight the role of businesses in changing social perceptions and behaviors.
"Progress in the field of human rights, as well as the integration and recognition of the importance of diversity," he said in an exclusive statement to ANA, "requires both government action through legislation and a lasting commitment from all members of civil society. It is very important that these policies and actions are informed by those who have experienced and come from different backgrounds."
Pointing to the role of governments, Οliphant said that governments can establish regulatory systems, enact legislation with implications for human rights violations and become role models as fair employers, even though – as he pointed out – they have a limited impact on social attitudes and behavior, as well as on the systemic reforms required for the full participation of minority groups in the social, political, economic and cultural life of a country.
In his view, he said, eradicating anti-social attitudes will require courage and continued commitment from all social classes adding that it will demand from all of us to condemn racism and to fight prejudice against sexual minorities and unconscious prejudice in the structures of society, but also in our own lives.
In this context, he stated that "civil society, especially the business community, plays an important role in ensuring social change." He added: "When businesses and industry embrace equality in the workplace, ensuring that gender, sexual orientation, age, race or nationality are no longer barriers to employment or progress, not only will they promote social change, but they will be more successful and profitable. Workers will have improved mental health and well-being, and will be free to pursue their creative abilities, bridging social gaps and opening up new markets."
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.