Today in the premises of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia, in the presence of a large number of journalists and cameramen, the European day of victims of hate crime was marked. The event consisted of a press conference for the media and a projection of a short film of […]
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July 10, 2013 Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski Government of the Republic of Macedonia Blvd. Ilinden No.2 1000Skopje Republic of Macedonia Dear Prime Minister Gruevski, I write to you on behalf of Human Rights Watch out of concern over several recent violent attacks on members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community in Skopje. […]
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia salutes today’s verdict 20K-966/13 of the First Instance Court Skopje 1 – Skopje, regarding the members of the group which during the March 2nd protests, who committed the following crime “Participation in a crowd that will commit a crime”, by which they have been declared guilty. […]
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In 2012, serious violations of the freedoms and rights of citizens were found, as well as severe violations of the principle of rule of law and legal state. What is particularly worrying is that the registered violations of human rights and freedoms in the reporting year indicate systemic problems in the functioning of authorities and […]
We strongly condemn the hate violence that occurred in front of the monument “A Warrior on a Horse” and the demolition of the LGBT Centre in the Old Bazaar (during a projection of a film and the forum for the rights of transgender people) and the hate speech that provokes violence and discrimination. We demand […]
The Network for Protection against Discrimination strongly condemns the text about the Law on Termination of Pregnancy, as well as the manner in which this law is prepared, proposed and adopted. This last period there were various reactions from domestic and foreign organizations concerning the restriction of the reproductive rights of women, which did not […]
Report on implementation of the Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on measures to combat discrimination on ground of sexual orientation or gender identity by the Republic of Macedonia Publisher: Helsinki Committee Legal Expert: Neda Chalovska Project coordinator: Kocho Andonovski […]
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The last act of the Data Verification Commission with which the professor and ex-minister for Internal and Foreign Affairs (1991-1997) Ljubomir D. Frckoski (member of the Executive Board of the Helsinki Committee) is the utmost distortion in the lustration process and of the Commission itself. The executive power, through the Commission persistently and impudently continues […]
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1. The draft law goes against the basic freedoms and rights and therefore represents a complex and elaborate law that cannot be adopted by shortened procedure. 2. The draft law for termination of pregnancy repeals/deletes the current provision of free choice for women to terminate their pregnancy until the 10th gestational week by introducing restrictive […]
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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, while monitoring the situation with human rights in the Republic of Macedonia and especially concerning discrimination on all bases in the post-election period of the local elections, registered reports of many cases of alleged discrimination based on political affiliation. Namely a large number of citizens from different municipalities reported on mass dismissals […]
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