April 8 has been established as World Roma Day. In Greece, the presence of the Roma counts over ten centuries. In 2001, with a resolution of 46 member associations of the Panhellenic Federation of Greek Roma Associations, the self-identification of the Greek Roma was announced as follows:   “We Greek Gypsies declare unequivocally and, in […]

On New Year’s Eve, an email with the title “Urgent”, arrived in the inbox of Humanstories.gr. It was sent, by Hamza, from Morocco.  “It is urgent. I am sending you this message because we are looking for the body of my brother, who probably died in Greece,” the message began and continued: “He was an illegal […]

The sun is slowly setting on the horizon, on the island of Thasos, and Alex and Audrey, sitting on the balcony of the tavern “Giannis” in Kazaviti, gaze at the sunset and discuss what can accompany the wines that have opened in front of them. Alexander Heer is a German winemaker and Audrey is a […]

On August 28, 1963, in Washington, DC, Martin Luther King, in front of 250,000 peace and human rights protesters, chanted the legendary “I have a dream.”  The Societies and history evolving from people who have a dream and who stubbornly pursue it, even if to others they look like modern Don Quixote’s. From people who […]

The pain is acute and lasts. The lungs appear unable to fill with enough air. You are drowning and you think that you will die. The sounds and images around you seems to be moving slowly. You are wondering what are you doing there. Why are you in this situation? The Turkish military guards, with […]

It was December 9, 2019, when I phoned Pavlos Pavlidis, the forensic doctor at Alexandroupolis University Hospital, to ask him about two refugees found in the Soufli area, dead from the cold. “Six were ​​Antonis, not two. Two Somali women found themselves hugging together in the bushes in Feres near the river, two men elsewhere […]

Rashid is sitting with his friends at the edge of the slope, on some pallets and wood. He is over 60 years old and as he says, that he was an officer in the Afghan army. He has lost his left eye in one of the battles against Taliban.  He was already one week in […]

Ηis anxiety was growing from minute to minute. It was not just the fact that he failed in his mission. There were also dangers around him that could end his life at any time. The beautiful blue balloon was wandering around Idomeni refugee camp with great care, but he couldn’t determine his fate. Just like […]

When you enter the enclosure of Alexandroupolis University Hospital, between the first and the second building, there is a long dark tunnel, with the light of the sun, glaring as it appears on its two edges. About in the middle of the route, from one tunnel opening to the other, there is a white container […]

The night falls on the Evros Delta. Everything is quiet. Even the dozens of migratory bird species that find shelter there, roar quietly in the reeds and dense vegetation. Only the water flow and the wind whistling between the bushes and the reeds can be heard. Some lights hover over the horizon and break the […]