INTRODUCTION Within the past month, the Helsinki committee worked on a certain number of cases where violations of human rights were detected in several segments and areas. In addition to this Report, we have chosen several cases which deserve specific insight and analysis due to their nature and content, and in which the disregard of […]
Human Rights Legal and Policy Action Framework Focusing on Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Project: Social Inclusion and Human Rights in Macedonia Prepared by: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of the Republic of Macedonia Publisher: Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights – BIM-FV […]
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1. PUBLIC DEVELOPMENTS AND VIOLATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES 1.1. Freedom of information should not be lynched! Freedom of speech is not for sail! – Campaign for an ombudsman for media. 1.2. National strategy for poverty and social exclusion reduction 1.3. Will judiciary manage to protect itself from political pressures?! 2. POLICE AND COURT CASES 2.1. […]
In today’s verdict by the Judicial Council in the case Vasilkoski and others against the Republic of Macedonia, with an application made and submitted by the Helsinki Committee (complaint No. 28169/08), the European Court for Human Rights on the public session has established violation to Article 5 paragraph 3 (right to freedom and safety) by […]
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I. PUBLIC EVENTS AND VIOLATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES 1.1. Closing the circle 1.2. Where do Macedonian courts make mistakes when pronouncing detention as a measure? 1.3. Introducing indicators for measuring discrimination on local level 1.4. National urgent trauma center – health reforms or just another hasty action of the Government? II. INDIVIDUAL CASES 2.1. Positive […]
The European Court for Human Rights in Strasburg established the violation of Article 6 of the European Convention for Human rights in the case of Tomislav Spasovski against the Republic of Macedonia. On 10.02.2002 in the village Aracinovo Tomislav Spasovski has suffered a severe physical injury from an explosive device placed in his home and […]
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1. PUBLIC EVENTS AND VIOLATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES 1.1. Defective Lustration 1.2. Castrated Anti-Corruption Commission 2. POLICE AND COURT CASES 2.1. Is the parental allowance allocated in accordance to the law or is it subject to subjective interpretation – the case of Sali Anita, Veles 2.2. Detention – punishment or revenge? 2.3. When the mayor […]
1. PUBLIC EVENTS AND VIOLATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES 1.1. Backwards Democracy 1.2. Who is stronger in the state – the party or the rule of law? 1.3. Barrier for the new religious communities 1.4. Social security – forgotten right in Macedonia 1.5. Disciplinary penalty for professional soldiers 1.6. Hate speech 2. POLICE AND COURT CASES […]
1. PUBLIC EVENTS AND VIOLATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES 1.1. Step further in realization of the project “The state belongs to the police, the police belongs to the party” 1.2. Police, workers from bankrupted companies and freedom of association and expression of protest 1.3. Review of the second periodic report of the Republic of Macedonia on […]
1. PUBLIC DEVELOPMENTS AND VIOLATIONS OF DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES 1.1. Continued discrimination of the Roma children 1.2. Do the laws or the will of the rulers govern in Macedonia? 1.3. Where is the motion for the criminal charges? – the Brodec case 1.4. “Hot”/“cold” with the permits for the Helsinki Committee to visit the prisons 1.5. […]