State-Church Relations and Blasphemy Laws in Greece and Europe 16 May 2015, 10:00 - 13:00 Amphitheater “Antonis Tritsis”, City of Athens Cultural Center, 60 Academias St., 10679 Athens Interpretation in Greek and English | Free entrance Welcome address: Nelly Papahela - Chairperson of Municipality of Athens City Council Moderator: Maria Yannakaki - former Democratic Left MP and former PACE General Rapporteur on combating racism and intolerance *** Pavan Dhaliwal - Vice-President of European Humanist Federation: “Church-State relations in Great Britain” Panayote Dimitras - Spokesperson for Humanist Union of Greece: “Church-State relations in Greece” Pierre-Arnaud Perrouty - Executive Director of European Humanist Federation: “The campaign to abolish blasphemy laws worldwide” Philippos Loizos - “Elder Pastitsios”: “How I personally experienced blasphemy laws in Greece” Government and Opposition reactions Costis Papaioannou - General Secretary of Transparency and Human Rights - Ministry of Justice (tbc) Haralambos Athanasiou -Former Minister of Justice & Member of Political Committee New Democracy (tbc) Nicholas Yatromanolakis - In Charge of Policy Section on Human Rights - “To Potami”(tbc) Representative of Communist Party of Greece (tbc) Fofi Gennimata - Parliamentary Rapporteur on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice – PASOK (tbc) *** Pierre Galand - President of European Humanist Federation: “Concluding remarks” With the support of City of Athens Cultural, Sports and Youth Organisation https://www.facebook.com/abolish.blasphemy.laws.in.greece