Embargoed! News
RIP Rauf Denktas
Embargoed! chair Emel Djevdet announces with great sadness of the passing of former TRNC President Rauf Raif Denktas earlier this evening. Born in Paphos, Cyprus, on 27 January 1924 and a barrister by profession, Rauf Denktas dedicated his life to championing the rights and political equality of...
Less than the price of coffee...
How many of you reading this article are like me and read your newspaper with a coffee in one hand? Maybe you bought that coffee from your local coffee shop, the one that you visit every day. Just take a moment and think how much you spend each year buying that cup of coffee...now what if I...
British trade union leader pledges help for Turkish Cypriots
20 December 2011: Billy Hayes, leader of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), pledged to help end the isolation of Turkish Cypriots at a fundraising dinner for human rights group Embargoed! on Sunday night. The CWU is the UK’s sixth biggest trade union, with over 250,000 members. A total of...
The time has come to kick racism out of football
A person’s true character is best revealed by how they react under pressure, and the racist comments by one footballer to another during a match remind us that racism is endemic within society. The suggestion by Fifa President Sepp Blatter that such incidents should be settled by an...
Tackling Greek Cypriot racism focus at international conference
15 November 2011: UK based human rights group Embargoed! attended the Supplementary Human Dimensions (SHD) meeting in Vienna last week on the prevention of racism, xenophobia and raising awareness programmes. The Embargoed! delegates again highlighted the extensive problems of racism in South...
"Take the log out of your eye, Brother"
When I read the many articles generated by the Greek Cypriot PR machine on the supposed desecration of orthodox religious sites in Northern Cyprus, I am reminded of a famous passage from the Christian bible, How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your...
Race hate laws ‘toothless’ in South Cyprus
10 October 2011: UK based human rights group Embargoed! attended HDIM, one of the world’s largest human rights convention, in Warsaw, Poland for the second time in two weeks. The Embargoed! delegates highlighted how racism had become institutionalised in South Cyprus and called on Greek...
Embargoed! on the offensive in Europe
03 Oct 11 UK based Human Rights group Embargoed! attended HDIM, an international human rights convention in Warsaw, Poland last week. Less than 48 hours later the group delivered a presentation to the EU Parliament’s High Level Contact Group for Relations with the Turkish Cypriot People...
The exclusion of Turkish Cypriots from London 2012; a silent and ugly truth
308 days. That is all that remains until London, my home city, hosts the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. London is on countdown, a city awash with changes as it prepares to host the greatest sporting event in the world. The magic of these Games is their ability to unite people from all around the...
New chair for Embargoed!
20 July 2011: A new chairperson was announced at Embargoed!’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of members in central London on Monday night. Lawyer Emel Djevdet takes over from Fevzi Hussein, who has been the group’s chair for the past four years. She will be joined by a new Treasurer Fahri...
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