\u201cMavroudi records the suffering, bravery, and dignity of these women in this extraordinary film \u2026 Ruins is an important reminder that human rights do not provide protection unless they are respected in practice, that respect for human rights is most critical for the most vulnerable, and that those who are in a position to speak out\u2014whether that be lawyer, politician, scientist, or clinician\u2014do not remain silent when confronted with evidence of their violation.\u201d Pr. Matthew Weait, Birkbeck College, University of London \u2014 The Lancet<\/p>\n
\u201cShocking and vivid … Gives us reason to feel collective shame and responsibility, if not guilt.\u201d Giorgos Katsambekis \u2014 Sunday Avgi<\/p>\n
\u201cA damning indictment of the media.\u201d Damian Mac Con Uladh \u2014 enetenglish.gr<\/p>\n
\u201cNarrates a cruelty that shocks. It\u2019s the cruelty of political speech stretched to its limits, where fiction dares not tread.\u201d Theofilos Tramboulis \u2014 Left.gr<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Ruins accomplishes is to prove that the actual ruins were not the HIV-positive women. It was the political establishment.\u201d Thomas Tsalapatis \u2014 Efimerida ton Syntakton<\/p>\n
\u201cA powerful exposition of how HIV stigma was cynically used to scapegoat society\u2019s most vulnerable.\u201d Edwin Bernard, HIV Justice Network<\/p>\n
\u201cRuins points the way for all of us about how easy it is for a civilised society to abandon all reason in the face of stigma and prejudice. See it and realise that without constant vigilance, any country\u2019s political and public health systems can be overcome by hysteria and personal ambition and the truth stood on its head by those we pay to safeguard it.\u201d Lisa Power, Policy Director, Terrence Higgins Trust<\/p>\n
\u201cRuins tells the story of the tragic victimization and stigmatization of marginalized women by the media and state authorities in a most powerful way. It highlights the prejudice and ignorance surrounding HIV transmission, the cruelty of the authorities and the media. Zoe Mavroudi gives voice to the<\/p>\n
marginalized women and presents a decisive critique that reminds how economic crises and human rights abuses go hand in hand.\u201d Virginia Mantouvalou, Co-Director UCL Institute for Human Rights<\/p>\n
\u201cPoints a finger squarely at the Greek government\u2019s eagerness to exploit age-old fears about the \u2018contagion\u2019 of women and foreigners, sacrificing and scapegoating its most vulnerable citizens in the process.\u201d Karen Herland, Director HIV\/AIDS Community Lecture Series, Concordia University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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