Human rights - Under Greek law, mothers of large families, that is, those who have four or more children, enjoy certain benefits, such as cash incentives, annual monetary government contributions, and pensions, provided that they meet certain criteria. A basic constitutional and statutory requirement is that no discrimination is permitted on the basis of sex, religion, race, or ethnic origin.

A Greek national, who is Muslim and the mother of four children and a resident of Thrace, a northern area of Greece where most of the Greek Muslim minority lives, applied for a pension payable for life as the mother of a large family. Greek authorities refused her application on the grounds that one of her four children did not have Greek nationality. Previously, the applicant and her family had their nationality revoked by a decision issued by the Minister of Interior while the family was visiting relatives in Turkey. The Minister had utilized article 19 of the Nationality Code, which at that time gave grounds to strip the Greek nationality of Greek citizens of foreign ethnicity who leave Greece with no intention to return. read full story here

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