Dimitris Christopoulos, President of the FIDH, Interview

On the 27th of August, Greek academic Dimitris Christopoulos was elected President of FIDH International Federation for Human Rights. The vote was held during the 39th FIDH Congress in Johannesburg where its 178 member organisations from 120 countries were gathered to elect the new International Board and determine the main orientations for the next three years. Nineteen years since he arrived to his first FIDH congress in Dakar now he is in charge of an international human rights NGO federating 178 organizations from 120 countries. Christopoulos was proposed by the Greek League for Human Rights, for which he has been serving as a member ever since 1990 and chaired from 2003 to 2011. During the first days of September he dropped by our office and Tassos Morfis asked him a few questions.