National Council against Racism and Intolerance – Ministry of Justice

General
The National Council against Racism and Intolerance was established by Law 4356/2015 (Government Gazette A 181/24.12.2015). It is a collective body providing advice and opinions and comes under the General Secretariat for Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights. It was constituted by virtue of decision 83559/15οικ./10.03.2016 (ΑΔΑ: 69ΤΒΩ-7ΑΟ) of the Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights.

Pursuant to the law, the Council has the power to:
- Design policies to prevent and combat racism and intolerance in order to ensure the protection of persons and groups that become targets due to race, colour, national or ethnic origin, genealogy, social origin, religious or other beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression;
- Supervise the implementation of the laws against racism and intolerance and the compliance thereof with international and European laws; and
- Promote and coordinate the activities of involved bodies for more effectively addressing the phenomenon and boost cooperation with civic society in such matters.

The regular and alternate members of the NCRI are nominated by the competent Ministers and bodies on the basis of their expertise in matters relating to racism or their powers. Specifically, the Hellenic Police representative and his alternate are nominated by the Chief of Hellenic Police and come from an agency competent to combat racist violence. Its members are:

Body-Agency	Regular Member	Alternate
General Secretariat for Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights	Maria Giannakaki General Secretary for Human Rights
Ministry of Migration Policy	Athanasios Vitsentzatos	Sotiria Kasnakoudi
Ministry of Education, Research and Religions Affairs	Maria Fassari	Nikolaos Papathanasopoulos
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Iraklis Moskof	Ilias Kastanas
Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights	Theofilos Tsagris	Elyna Kaplani
Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity	Theodora Stathopoulou	Dimitra Nikou
Hellenic Police Headquarters	Dimosthenis Katsiavaras	Michail Lolis
Migrant Integration Council, Municipality of Athens	Lefteris Papagiannakis	Moavia Ahmet
National Commission for Human Rights	Vasiliki Georgiadou	Eleni Spathana
UN High Commission for Refugees	Dafni Kapetanaki	Styliani Nanou
Racist Violence Recording Network	Stamatia Stavrinaki	Yonus Mohamadi
Racist Violence Recording Network	Eva Giannakaki	Filippos Paganis
National Confederation of Persons with Disabilities	Ioannis Vardakastanis	Dimitrios Logaras
Athens Journalists Union	Haris Savvidis	Eleftheria Koumantou
Research Centre for Gender Equality	Irini-Eleni Agathopoulou	Markos Hatzisavvas
General Confederation of Greek Workers	Elli Varchalama	Despoina Babanelou
Supreme Administration of Greek Civil Servants Trade Unions	Antonis Karavas	Sotiria Dalla
National Council for Radio and Television	Nikolaos Kiaos	Kalliopi Diamantakou

Moreover, Ms. Kalliopi Lykovardi and Ms. Dimitra Mytilinaiou are invited to attend and participate in the meetings of the Council, in their capacity of Ombudsman representatives pursuant to article 16§4 of Law 4356/2015.

Information/Awareness Activities
- TV spot of the Research Centre for Gender Equality, in its capacity of member of the National Council against Racism and Intolerance, relating to the integration of refugee children in public education. It was broadcast as a “social message” (as characterised by the National Council for Radio and Television) on nation-wide public and private TV channels;
- TV spot of the National Council against Racism and Intolerance for the World Refugee Day (20 June);
- Brochure of the National Council against Racism and Intolerance on “Public Administration in the face of racist crime”.