The League of Nations and its work on social issues in Greece


Project manager: Elisabeth Kontogiorgi, Director of Research

Project Launch: 2006

This project focuses on the work of the League’s of Nations various specialized commissions and agencies that operated in Greece in the period 1922-1932. It aims to collect systematically documentation material in order to analyze their role in dealing with social questions such as health, refugees, trafficking of women and children and the promotion of child welfare, and to reassess the extent of the national implementation of the League’s experts’ proposals.

Participation in Conferences

2010 - Foreign migrants in Greece. Curse or advancement, Scientific Colloquium organized by the “Society for Neohellenic Culture and General Education Studies”, 10-11 December 2010, “The League of Nations and its work against human trafficking in Inter-war Greece”, contribution by Elisabeth Kontogiorgi (in Greek) 

2012 - “Thessaloniki, the refugees’ capital”. The refugees in the city since 1912, Conference organised by the Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism of the Municipality of Kalamaria , 23-25 November 2012 “Public health Conditions in Thessaloniki and the proposals of the League of Nations Health Organization for the organisation of health services (1922-1932)” contribution by Elisabeth Kontogiorgi (in Greek).

2013 - Serres and its area, 100 years since the liberation , 3rd International Congress, Serres 17-19 October 2013. “International organisations and public health in the prefecture of Serres during the Inter-war period”, contribution by Elisabeth Kontogiorgi (in Greek).

Publications

2013 – Elisabeth Kontogiorgi, “Public Health Conditions in Thessaloniki and the proposals of the Commission of the League of Nations Health Organization for the reorganisation of health services” in“Thessaloniki, the refugees’ capital”. The refugees in the city since 1912, Proceedings of the Conferenceorganised by the Historical Archive of Refugee Hellenism of the Municipality of Kalamaria (23-25 November 2012), Thessaloniki 2013, pp. 182-199 (in Greek).