Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, A/67/328, 22 August 2012
II. Contributions received from Member States Greece 30. The Government referred to the new draft law for the integration into the Greek legal order of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA for addressing certain forms and manifestations of racism and xenophobia through the...
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